d. collins wrote:
Two questions on grace notes:
Is there any way (plug-in?) to get Finale to add a little more space
between a grace note and the following main note? I find the default
spacing too tight, especially if there's a slur.
Document Options - Grace Notes - Grace Note Offset on Entry
Okay, so I ordered the Panther upgrade.
I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger
(10.4) could be just around the corner.
--
Rocky Road - in Oz
Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica,
leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a
Darcy James Argue wrote:
[snip]
No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time:
Dog bites man.
Man bites dog.
What's the difference? Same three words. Different meaning. What
accounts for the difference?
Grammar. Grammar controls meaning.
Actually, meaning controls grammar.
We have the
Actually, Strauss called HIMSELF a first-rate second-rate composer.
David Froom
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:00:14 -0600
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Finale Digest, Vol 19, Issue 17
I remember when it was fashionable to call
In defense of music theory -- it seems to me (as someone who has taught it
mostly to performers for 25 years) that a primary function is help people's
brains become aware of what their ear already knows. (I know, it all
happens in the brain . . . guess I'm talking left-brain, right-brain -- oops
You seem to me to be arguing that acoustics are part of the musical
content of a work of music, where I'm saying that it is only the
mechanism by which the content is conveyed.
Can to define this elusive content without reference to physics?
___
In all of these words about words, it may be that the hangup is the word
'significant'. Perhaps all he is saying is that grammar is not the meaning
and the words themselves are not the meaning. If I am on the right track
then he would also say that sound (and hence any aspect of physics) is not
Rocky Road / 05.2.10 / 04:10 AM wrote:
I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger
(10.4) could be just around the corner.
In my opinion,
You do not want to depend your work on first generation anything, both
software and hardware. First generation is for you to play
I was printing out music for show tomorrow, and surprised at printout
messes last night. Wherever I used Times is totally messed up space-
wise. I had to reassign to Times New Roman file by file (didn't know if
there is a batch way).
I still don't understand 'check font against system'
At 11:40 PM -0500 2/9/05, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Feb 2005 at 23:27, John Howell wrote:
I'm not sure where the Austrian Lutherans came from! That use of
trombones (or sackbutts) goes back at least to Schuetz, one of whose
Psalm settings from about 1619 I studied in a graduate seminar, in
There is a tremendous fear of music theory out there, with many
musicians having the sense that music-theoretic discourse kills the
magic of music making. However, I find that that such feelings can
often be alleviated by identifying the tasks that theorists set as
modest ones with results
On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Howell wrote:
Bernouli's law, ...Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and
rotary-wing aircraft.
Actually, that can't be the case, though everybody thinks it is. If
Bernoulli's law were responsible for lift in aircraft, airplanes
wouldn't be able to fly
On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
I assume that by age of 150 you mean 150 years after birth*. When I
wrote the first post I thought I had examples, but now that I do the
math, I find the ones I had in mind went out of fashion around age
75-100 and thus don't meet your test. I'...
Since he dangle his grammatical temporal dongle, I wonder if he'd
clarify
if he meant the fame from the late 18th century on, or the composer
from
the late 18th century on.
Dennis
Fame--or rather, reputation, wh. is what I was really talking about.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David W.
Fenton writes:
Plenty of music has meaning with absolutely no non-musical external
references. We may not be able to verbalize exactly what that meaning
may be, and we may not all agree on the exact meaning, but the
meaning is, in fact, there in the music.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Yates
write:
I cannot believe that someone else also mentioned Bernoulli! By the way, I
heard somewhere recently that the relative force of Bernoulli effect is now
seen as less significant than the simple pressure on the underside of the
wing from the positive
On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Rudolf van Berkum wrote:
In the case of the trombones' entry in The Magic Flute that Raymond
Horton
mentioned, we can appreciate that for the Lutheran members of the
audience
in Mozart's day, the sound of the trombone would have additional
meaning for
them because of
Finale keeps a list of fonts on your system that are used in a document, so
that you can take the file to other systems and use the correct fonts. This
list can get out of sync if for example, take a file that uses the Awesome
font from your desktop to your laptop that you do not have Awesome
Allen Fisher / 05.2.10 / 00:28 PM wrote:
By choosing Check Document Fonts Against System Fonts, you are given
the opportunity to replace a font not found on the system with one that is.
That's what I thought, but it is not working, at least on my machines.
See, back in OS9 dark ages, I had a
Regarding physics and music, can I walk out on the ice and suggest that a
distinction needs to be made between physics as a discipline of study, on
the one hand, and the term being used to refer to the actual forces, etc.,
that function in the universe? After parsing through these interesting
At 11:06 AM -0500 2/10/05, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Howell wrote:
Bernouli's law, ...Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and
rotary-wing aircraft.
Actually, that can't be the case, though everybody thinks it is. If
Bernoulli's law were responsible for lift in
At 03:29 PM 2/10/2005, dhbailey wrote:
Andrew Stiller wrote:
Actually, that can't be the case, though everybody thinks it is.
If
Bernoulli's law were responsible for lift in aircraft, airplanes
wouldn't be able to fly upside-down--and they can.
I'm confused by this remark --
Folks,
there's way more to this topic than anyone has said so far. Here are some
resources
(and
please let's get back to Finale, because whenever we stray from that things get
weird
very
quickly.)
1.
Stop Abusing Bernoulli: How Airplanes Really Fly, Gale Craig, Regenerative
Press1997
On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I I find myself puzzled at the assertions by quite a few on this list
that The Magic Flute is incoherent. I confess I have never found it
so. To me the characters, motivations, and events are all perfectly
straightforward and sensible (within
David W. Fenton wrote:
No one is a bigger fan of Mozart than I am. But I have always felt
that the Magic Flute is incoherent *as an opera* (or Singspiel,
technically speaking, I guess). If it did not have some of the most
glorious music ever written, it would be a failure. But so far as I
can
David Bailey observed,
When a plane flies upside down there is still an upper side and a lower
side for the air to work against. Well designed wings (as in
aerobatic planes) work equally well no matter which side is up.
It might be clearer to say that wings designed for aerobatic flight
(there
On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:36, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 10 Feb 2005, at 12:26 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:09, Darcy James Argue wrote:
No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time:
Dog bites man.
Man bites dog.
What's the difference? Same three words.
On 10 Feb 2005 at 10:07, Ken Moore wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David W.
Fenton writes: Plenty of music has meaning with absolutely no
non-musical external references. We may not be able to verbalize
exactly what that meaning may be, and we may not all agree on the
exact meaning, but
On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
I go to the opera in a state of suspension of disbelief, otherwise I
cannot enjoy it. Many opera plots seem ridiculous to me, and taking
15 minutes to die while singing...well, you see what I mean. So
that's the price of enjoyment of the
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