Re: [Finale] Orchestral Notation

2006-12-03 Thread Mark D Lew
On Dec 2, 2006, at 9:52 AM, dhbailey wrote: If you don't understand the clef, then set the viola staff to be either treble or bass clef and enter the music in a manner you do understand and then when it's all entered go back and change the clef to the alto clef. This is sound advice, except

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:39 PM 12/3/06 -0800, Bruce E. Clausen wrote: >I took a few minutes to visit the ISMN website (www.ismn-international.org) >and found that it is relatively inexpensive to obtain an ISMN (although they >have to be ordered in bulk). If having such a number does indeed increase >one's likelih

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Bruce E. Clausen
I took a few minutes to visit the ISMN website (www.ismn-international.org) and found that it is relatively inexpensive to obtain an ISMN (although they have to be ordered in bulk). If having such a number does indeed increase one's likelihood of distribution it should make sense to get one. H

RE: [Finale] Orchestral Notation

2006-12-03 Thread keith helgesen
Interesting- I'm in "Simple- never tried Speedy" mode! (apart from asking for diatonic accidentals!) Cheers K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [Finale] Orchestral Notation

2006-12-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006/12/03 / 04:31 AM wrote: >However, when I use Finale I am forced to use the "show in concert pitch" >option because when I enter a note for a transposed instrument, let's say a >written F for horn (sounding Bb) the note that Finale plays isn't the >real note, the Bb, b

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-12-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Michael Good / 2006/12/01 / 01:57 PM wrote: >Make sure you have a real font that's really installed on your >computer selected at the top of the box. You'll get an empty list like >you describe if the font isn't available, or is somehow misinstalled. As I said, I am on native Windows 2000 Japanes

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Carl Dershem
John Howell wrote: On 12/3/06, Eric Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In principal, all publishers print "on demand", "on demand", the difference being the size and frequency of the print runs. Our print runs average between 300 and 400 copies, which, while certainly not in the same league wi

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread John Howell
On 12/3/06, Eric Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In principal, all publishers print "on demand", "on demand", the difference being the size and frequency of the print runs. Our print runs average between 300 and 400 copies, which, while certainly not in the same league with the big boys, can'

Re: [Finale] Transposing

2006-12-03 Thread John Howell
At 7:15 PM + 12/3/06, Will Denayer wrote: Hi John, I am only curious, what are chortons and kammertons? Sorry, don't know it. Best, Will Chorton is "choir pitch." Kammerton is "chamber pitch." This is just one little complication in trying to pin down baroque performing pitches. There

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 12/3/06, Eric Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do try to exercise a little restraint when talking about matters you're maybe not quite sure about. I will, if you will. In principal, all publishers print "on demand", "on demand", the difference being the size and frequency of the print r

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Eric Fiedler
Kim, Do try to exercise a little restraint when talking about matters you're maybe not quite sure about. In principal, all publishers print "on demand", the difference being the size and frequency of the print runs. Our print runs average between 300 and 400 copies, which, while certainly

Re: [Finale] Transposing

2006-12-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 12/3/06, Will Denayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi John, I am only curious, what are chortons and kammertons? Sorry, don't know it. Best, Will http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/DR/DR9.1/DR9.1.Bukoff.html -- Kim Patrick Clow "There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Ross

[Finale] Transposing

2006-12-03 Thread Will Denayer
Bach, for example, never wrote transposing instrumental parts, but did use different clefs for high, medium and low instruments. (Yes, i know about his brass parts, and about chorton and kammerton, but please don't complicate things at this point!) Hi John, I am only curious, what are chorton

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never--especially in caps--is too strong a word. I am a music publisher, and print on demand; and libraries do, in fact, occasionally (several times a year) order directly from my website or from my printed catalog. I encourage them to do this by offering

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 3, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: libraries will NEVER order material from a publisher's website. They rely completely on music distributors for catalogues and updates on new materials stocked. Never--especially in caps--is too strong a word. I am a music publisher, and

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
I stand corrected about the Garri Editions and Eric Fielder's Telemann cantata cycle editions (these are self published music editions and are published in the non traditional method-- a.k.a. "print on demand". The music library at Columbia told me that those editions do have ISMNs, so they are "i

Re: [Finale] Orchestral Notation

2006-12-03 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to work with the instruments in written pitch, especially when writing for brass - being a horn player I know what the different ranges sound like. When I write on paper I write the instruments as they will be written in the parts. However, when I use Fin

Re: [Finale] moving partial measure

2006-12-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.12.2006 Cecil Rigby wrote: I want the last beat of a measure on the next system. Using the measure tool I select the split option and then click on the box I created at the obvious place over the measure. Then I use the mass mover tool and hit the down arrow, et voila- the last beat mo

[Finale] moving partial measure

2006-12-03 Thread Cecil Rigby
Hi all- through the years I've never had to use the feature before & I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if there's a known bug. FinWin06b... I want the last beat of a measure on the next system. Using the measure tool I select the split option and then click on the box I created at t

Re: [Finale] Orchestral Notation

2006-12-03 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I prefer to work with the instruments in written pitch, especially when writing for brass - being a horn player I know what the different ranges sound like. When I write on paper I write the instruments as they will be written in the parts. However, when I use Finale I am forced to use th

Re: [Finale] O.T. Self publishing issues

2006-12-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 01.12.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote: There is such a thing as an ISMN (International Standard Music Number) that is supposed to be used on printed music in place of the ISBN--but it never caught on and I don't think I've ever seen a volume that carried one. Not true. Any recent Bärenreiter vol