[Finale] FinWin 2005b - switching between layers with Italian Keyboard and typing multiple tuplets in speedy entry

2006-06-28 Thread Marcello Noia
I don't know if it is a problem related to my keyboard but the command alt+34 to switch between layers in speedy entry works only if I deactivate and reactivate everytime the numlock on the numeric keypad. No other way to dothat without being forced to use the mouse? Another question: is

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a piece by Paganini for a client, and his handling of tuplets got me wondering about the standards for notating them. This piece is a theme and variations, and when he writes sextuplets the first two show the numbers, and then he leaves them off, which I know

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/27/2006 06:14 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Put me in the cynic camp Authorization Improvements are NOT a feature. The group/bracket stuff seems more like bug-fix level stuff than real advances. As does the cross-staff

Re: [Finale] Dotted slurs...

2006-06-28 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
If you absolutely have to make a slur for a special situation that needs a different dashing setup, then you can do so using a shape expression. You'll have to create this in the shape editor, (which as most of us know is a little fickle and difficult to work with). Here though, you'd be able to

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes. Also, colouration consisted of black and white notation (simple to do when printing black ink on white paper) but red (and blue) notation disappeared because of the complex

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2005b - switching between layers with Italian Keyboard and typing multiple tuplets in speedy entry

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: I don't know if it is a problem related to my keyboard but the command alt+34 to switch between layers in speedy entry works only if I deactivate and reactivate everytime the numlock on the numeric keypad.   No other way to do that without being

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Patterson
Owain Sutton: Put me in the cynic camp Oh come on. Fin07 offers perhaps the single biggest enhancement in the history of the product (linked parts) and all anyone can think of is to whine about the peripheral stuff? Authorization Improvements are NOT a feature. Just to be clear

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Owain Sutton: Authorization Improvements are NOT a feature. Just to be clear about terminology. All behavior that is according to the design spec is a feature, including authorization. What authorization is not (from the user

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Raymond Horton
The arms race is true in orchestras, but can be much more true in live pop and jazz. .. About ten or 12 years ago, the Tempataions did a pair of outdoor concerts with us. They had synths doubling all the orchestra parts at , and sound guys would come back and tell us that we couldn't be

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:11 PM 6/27/06 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: But it seems to me that in the historical example, there was no resulting limitation on the musical expression of the composers, as I believe Dennis is suggesting is the case with the impoverished notational vocabulary of primitive notation

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread Owain Sutton
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2006 15:02 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Of course, the Funk Bros. (who played on all the original Motown recordings before the label relocated to LA) were some of Detroit's finest jazz players. They would track for Motown during the day (for which they were paid a flat rate of $10/song) and play in the jazz clubs at night. This

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
At 4:00 AM -0500 6/28/06, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a piece by Paganini for a client, and his handling of tuplets got me wondering about the standards for notating them. This piece is a theme and variations, and when he writes sextuplets the first two show the

Re: [Finale] 2007 Announced!!

2006-06-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Oh yeah, I missed the AND. Sorry, and thanks. Dean On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Yo, guys and girls ... inre MacFin07, will it run ok on my ten month old G5, as opposed to the new intel processor, and has

Re: [Finale] Chord Definition Question!

2006-06-28 Thread Jacki Barineau
Hi, Everyone - I sent this question a few days ago and haven't gotten a response yet - does anyone know how to do this?! Thanks! On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Jacki Barineau wrote: Okay - now that I've got this chord figured out... :) How can I tell Finale what notes to play for each

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: OK, Andrew, I am not nearly as knowledgeable as you about older music, but I am surprised by the 1910 - 1935 comparison. I don't doubt that you have good information about this, and I am curious about it. I was thinking mainly of

Re: [Finale] Chord Definition Question!

2006-06-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Jacki, I really don't recommend enabling chord playback in Finale. You will never get anything resembling acceptable voice-leading that way. It's very easy to enter your own playback-only piano part or guitar part with proper voice-leading, hidden by slash marks or placed in a hidden

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
At 10:02 AM -0400 6/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes. Agreed, 2-note ligatures with opposite propriety are the large majority. Throughout most periods compositional

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Jun 2006, at 1:23 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Around 1985, I complained in a concert review that the word electroacoustic meant too damn loud. I don't think things have gotten any louder since then. They couldn't possibly. In the recorded world, they have, absolutely. Since the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
At 2:21 PM + 6/28/06, Robert Patterson wrote: Owain Sutton: Put me in the cynic camp Oh come on. Fin07 offers perhaps the single biggest enhancement in the history of the product (linked parts) and all anyone can think of is to whine about the peripheral stuff? Yes, an

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
At 11:44 AM -0400 6/28/06, Raymond Horton wrote: The arms race is true in orchestras, but can be much more true in live pop and jazz. .. About ten or 12 years ago, the Tempataions did a pair of outdoor concerts with us. They had synths doubling all the orchestra parts at , and sound guys

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
Chuck Israels wrote: I played on a recording date in 1963 with JJ Johnson - arrangements written by JJ for himself, 4 other trombones (Urbie Green and Lou McGarity, on tenors, Tommy Mitchell and Paul Faulise on bass trombones, and a rhythm section that included Hank Jones and Walter Perkins,

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread David W. Fenton
On 28 Jun 2006 at 4:00, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a piece by Paganini for a client, and his handling of tuplets got me wondering about the standards for notating them. This piece is a theme and variations, and when he writes sextuplets the first two show

Re: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes. A page of Mouton's _Messe d'Allemaigne_, as printed by Attaignant and reproduced in _Pierre Attaignant: Royal

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread David W. Fenton
On 28 Jun 2006 at 12:55, John Howell wrote: At 4:00 AM -0500 6/28/06, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a piece by Paganini for a client, and his handling of tuplets got me wondering about the standards for notating them. This piece is a theme and variations, and when

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread Owain Sutton
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Stiller Sent: 28 June 2006 19:33 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to various

RE: [Finale] Notation; was RE: Tremolos

2006-06-28 Thread John Howell
At 8:05 PM +0100 6/28/06, Owain Sutton wrote: A page of Mouton's _Messe d'Allemaigne_, as printed by Attaignant and reproduced in _Pierre Attaignant: Royal Printer of Music_ by Daniel Heartz, displays several 3-note ligatures, in a variety of forms. Would these be formed simply by

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Lon Price
On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:As to the question of what is correct *now*, things are not quite as simple as you suggest.  In particular, the proper number of beams for a septuplet has been a vexed question for a very long time. Many composers follow the rule you cite, that a

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Raymond Horton
Your point is well made, although the Temps had, at that time, two original vocalists and three that went back many years (that group started dying off pretty quickly, as I recall). But the touring band was mostly young. The conductor for them, and for the Four Tops (the vocalists were

Re: [Finale] Re:OTmusic getting louder - was Trombones

2006-06-28 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi John, Sorry I left out the title - JJ's Broadway (arrangements of show tunes). Some of the tracks are glorious to my ears, and I'm proud to have been a participant. Again, not to start a war: I am a displaced NYer now living on the West Coast in beautiful Bellingham, Washington -

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: I may not completely understand the flow of technological changes, which is why I ask this question. The period when music was generated with handset type, to the best of my knowledge, was the 16th and early 17th centuries. A little off on the end; the last piece of music I

Re: [Finale] Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread David W. Fenton
On 28 Jun 2006 at 18:21, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: John Howell wrote: I may not completely understand the flow of technological changes, which is why I ask this question. The period when music was generated with handset type, to the best of my knowledge, was the 16th and early 17th

[Finale] Re: Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Rudolf van Berkum
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:55:58 -0400 John wrote: In manuscript I used a LOT of one-bar and two-bar (and sometimes four-bar) ditto marks, but it is child's play today to copy the notation in those measures throughout the passage. But that may not be the clearest way to indicate consecutive measures

[Finale] playback tempo problem

2006-06-28 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi all, There is an unwanted ritard hidden in some MIDI data in a file I'm working on. Someone told me how to solve this problem a while ago, but I have forgotten. Will someone please remind me what to do to get rid of this? Thanks, Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace

RE: [Finale] Re: Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Williams, Jim
I have been told by drummers to put the pattern at the beginning of each line. I'd say that milepost numbers are desirable, especially if phrase lengths are in any way irregular. Chuck...weigh in, please!! Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rudolf van

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet notation

2006-06-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Williams, Jim wrote: I have been told by drummers to put the pattern at the beginning of each line. I'd say that milepost numbers are desirable, especially if phrase lengths are in any way irregular. Chuck...weigh in, please!! Jim Weighing in at some 20 lbs

Re: [Finale] playback tempo problem

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, There is an unwanted ritard hidden in some MIDI data in a file I'm working on. Someone told me how to solve this problem a while ago, but I have forgotten. Will someone please remind me what to do to get rid of this? It's

[Finale] Finale 2007 and TGTools

2006-06-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'm wondering if TGTools is going to come out with a new version for Finale 2007. There hasn't been any huge changes to the plugin in about a year, and I hope it will work just like it works now (as I use it all the time). Also, a Universal version for running on Intel Macs would be nice as