Re: [Finale] Re: OT Meanings of words

2004-08-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 26, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Harold Owen wrote: Naughty could mean of no account. I remember hearing in an old play a woman saying She has nice manners meaning she had no manners at all, which some would construe as naughty. Ah yes, of course! I was thinking only of the evolution of nice. I

Re: [Finale] Arrangement, Orchestration or Transcription?

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Andreani
Allegro, andante, old Italian. Who in this time (in their native language) actually puts happy as a musical direction or walking? (Okay, maybe the Italians. Sr. Andreani, care to respond?) Walking isn't a very good translation of andante. The closest English equivalent would be going,

Re: [Finale] German Musical Term

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Andreani
Dear Giovanni, Yes, bearbeitet von is the correct translation. I wouldn't use a colon, however. Greetings from Vienna, Mario. Thank you Mario, very much. I would like to ask you what Orchestration by... is in German; or would it turn out to be Orchestrated by...? Giovanni

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: Hey, that reminds me. Have they fixed Speedy Entry so that when the cursor is at the end of a measure, the Enter key acts on the previous chord like all the other speedy keystrokes do? This would save me more time and effort than just about any other fix. It's not a big

Re: [Finale] Re: OT Meanings of words

2004-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: On Aug 26, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Harold Owen wrote: Naughty could mean of no account. I remember hearing in an old play a woman saying She has nice manners meaning she had no manners at all, which some would construe as naughty. Ah yes, of course! I was thinking only of the

[Finale] Finale 2005 (WIN) Tuplet Bug (a different one?)

2004-08-27 Thread Colin Broom
Just installed FinWin2K5. Can someone confirm this for me? 1. Create a beam-side tuplet. 2. Now attach a note expression to the first note of the tuplet (again beam-side), or a beam-side articulation. Re-draw the screen. Does the tuplet bracket/number move to encompass the expression? 3.

[Finale] Xylophones Range Absolute Pitch

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Andreani
Hello I'm working on a series of publications including instruments such as xylophones, metallophones, bass contrabass resonator bars, glockenspiels. These kind of instruments are better known as Orff- Instruments and are not only used for kids nursery rhymes, but, in a larger and more complex

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:26 AM, dhbailey wrote: When entering a chord on ANY beat, not just the last beat, you still have to arrow back, so the behavior at the end of the measure is no different from any other beat. Sorry, I should have phrased that more carefully. Where I said end of the measure,

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:11:34 -0700, Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the cursor is not over an entry, every one of those keystrokes works on the previous entry -- EXCEPT for the Enter key. Why the difference? How else would you enter the next note in the measure? If a cursor on a

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:11 PM 08/27/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: When the cursor is not over an entry, every one of those keystrokes works on the previous entry -- EXCEPT for the Enter key. Why the difference? It just baffles me that this has been left alone for so long. Surely I'm not the only one who uses Speedy

Re: [Finale] Xylophones Range Absolute Pitch

2004-08-27 Thread Richard Walsh
Hi A good reference book is by Roger Bornstein Range and Transposition Guide which contains said information on just about every instrument in the western world, including those that you mention. The last I heard the book was available only at Judy Green Music in Hollywood, CA. RW On Friday,

[Finale] Tuplet bug (a different one?)

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Matthews
I have already sent a question about this to MacSupport, since the mac version behaves in the same way. Michael Matthews Just installed FinWin2K5. Can someone confirm this for me? 1. Create a beam-side tuplet. 2. Now attach a note expression to the first note of the tuplet (again beam-side),

Re: [Finale] more words (was Arrangement...)

2004-08-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 27, 2004, at 2:39 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote: Well, there's a lot to say here, and I'll obviously cover one minimum percentage of the aspect. [snip] Thanks for the follow up, Giovanni. And I trust you won't be shy about correcting me when I do get something wrong! In the opera world

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:25 PM 08/27/2004, Brad Beyenhof wrote: How else would you enter the next note in the measure? If a cursor on a blank space affected the previous note, you'd never be able to fill the rest of the measure. Right? No. The Enter key can only add a pitch to an existing chord -- it cannot make

[Finale] Orff-Topic

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Andreani
Shouldn't this messsage be labeled Orff-Topic? cd Hello I'm working on a series of publications including instruments such as xylophones, metallophones, bass contrabass resonator bars, glockenspiels. These kind of instruments are better known as Orff- Instruments and are not only used for kids

[Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Henry Howey
I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. The SMARTMUSIC synth choice gives no sound at all. Also, the repeats plug-in is gone and bizarre events occur when

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Aug 2004 at 13:24, Henry Howey wrote: I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. May I ask why you installed SP2? The SMARTMUSIC synth choice gives

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So is this a Finale problem or a Windows XP Service Pack 2 problem? Did you try 2004 with it? I've heard Service Pack 2 breaks a lot of software, so, I'll pass on it now. I don't think you should be pointing fingers at MakeMusic. Direct it at Microsoft. Henry Howey wrote: I just put the

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:24 PM 08/27/2004, Henry Howey wrote: I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. This one is not (necessarily) Coda's fault. From what I've read, SP2 was

RE: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Williams, Jim
Henry... XP SP2 is known to be very unfriendly to MIDI and audio software. Hopefully you created a restore point and can roll yourself back to pre-SP2. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Henry Howey Sent: Fri 27-Aug-04 13:24 To:

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Henry Howey wrote: I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. The SMARTMUSIC synth choice gives no sound at all. Also, the repeats plug-in is gone and bizarre

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 27, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: I never quite thought about it, Mark, but you're quite right -- and boy, would this be a timesaver. I cringe whenever I have to enter something with more than a rudimentary piano part, because of the time it will take to enter chords. (I use

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread dhbailey
And it has added some wonderful functionality that will make life with Finale much easier, with regards to repeats. But I just used the old repeats plugins and they still are quick and easy also, so I may keep them in my plugins folder. But the revamping of the Repeat Tool deserves a lot of

Re: [Finale] Xylophones Range Absolute Pitch

2004-08-27 Thread John Howell
At 11:00 AM -0700 8/27/04, Carl Dershem wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:59:32 +0200, Giovanni Andreani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm working on a series of publications including instruments such as xylophones, metallophones, bass contrabass resonator bars, glockenspiels. These kind of

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey write: You can select the Repeat tool and then highlight the measures you want in the repeats, go to the Repeat menu and choose Simple Repeat or First and Second Ending Repeats. With the First and Second Ending, it will turn whichever measure or measures you have selected into

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Richard Yates
I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. I read on MS newsgroups that there are many problems with SP2, but that there is a rollback feature in it.

Re: [Finale] Page turn symbol/notation?

2004-08-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
In jazz and B'way copying, where we go to extreme lengths to facilitate page turns (sometimes we have just 2-3 systems on a page, or even leave a page completely blank), we use V.S. for all page turns where the system with the page turn isn't aligned with the bottom margin -- even when there's

Re: [Finale] Page turn symbol/notation?

2004-08-27 Thread Owain Sutton
Darcy James Argue wrote: So I think using V.S. as an all-purpose page turn indicator is just fine. It isn't with the sightreading of a piece with standard orchestral players. They'll all lurch forwards to turn ASAP. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Orff-Topic

2004-08-27 Thread John Howell
At 11:02 PM -0400 8/27/04, John Howell wrote: At 8:10 PM +0200 8/27/04, Giovanni Andreani wrote: Hold the phone on your question, Giovanni. My wife just found me an official Studio 49 grand staff showing the ranges of all the instruments. It's a little hard to figure out, but I'll report back

Re: [Finale] Page turn symbol/notation?

2004-08-27 Thread Raymond Horton
Owain Sutton wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: So I think using V.S. as an all-purpose page turn indicator is just fine. It isn't with the sightreading of a piece with standard orchestral players. They'll all lurch forwards to turn ASAP. ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Page turn symbol/notation?

2004-08-27 Thread John Howell
At 8:19 PM -0700 8/27/04, John Poole [Finale Discussion] wrote: I've read that in instances where page turns are needed for solo players to warn them that a quick page turn is necessary in order to keep up with the group, the appropriate marking is v.s. for volti subito (Italian). John: This

Re: [Finale] Page turn symbol/notation?

2004-08-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Aug 2004, at 12:24 AM, Raymond Horton wrote: Owain Sutton wrote: It isn't with the sightreading of a piece with standard orchestral players. They'll all lurch forwards to turn ASAP. And that's a bad thing? [I'm kidding, but kidding on the square.] Exactly. V.S. means fast. The end of a

Re: [Finale] Orff-Topic

2004-08-27 Thread Brad Beyenhof
http://music.theory.home.att.net/insrange.htm -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] TAN: Olympic Star Spangled Banner

2004-08-27 Thread Richard Yates
I like the arrangement that is being used in the Olympics this time around. The '..rockets red glare' section is sweet and peaceful. Not a good match for the words, but better than an a swaggering march. Anyone know who did it or how they choose? Richard Yates