Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:23 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2007/07/02 / 11:32 AM wrote: Well, really, ALL extensions are actually suspensions that we just decided didn't need to resolve. Having the note of resolution present at the same time as the suspension just makes it an

Re: [Finale] transposition db

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Will Denayer wrote: 'You need to setup the transposition properly for a double bass staff. Set the transposition to be Up Octave, then use mass mover to transpose the whole staff down an octave. You will get the lower octave for playback sound since that's the

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-03 Thread Owain Sutton
Perhaps so; I don't know how much training in harmonics a violinist gets compared to, say, a guitarist, whose scores are littered with harmonics. In looking at your Britten example, I can see which strings those harmonics might fall on for greatest volume, if only because of knowing

Re: [Finale] FinMac2007c file overwrite (different bug!)

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Karen wrote: Try a Google search on 31 characters hex filename I found this for you when I did that search: http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php? Cat=0Number=498611Main=497508 Karen, As usual, you went far beyond the call of duty to help

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-03 Thread Ken Moore
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Howell wrote: The problem with that method is that it leaves it entirely up to the player to figure out how and where to finger the harmonic. Exactly. That's what I do. You put in bowings, they change them. You put in phrasings, they

[Finale] Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
My copy of FinMac 2008 arrived just now. I have to go play a gig, but I will install this afternoon and report what little I discover. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: My copy of FinMac 2008 arrived just now. I have to go play a gig, but I will install this afternoon and report what little I discover. Wow, when did you order it? I turned off my e-mails as of Monday night, June 25, and there was no mention of Finale2008 at all.

[Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
Suddenly Acrobat is shrinking the contents of a pdf. The page size is OK, the music is like a postage stamp. I remember this problem has been coverd before, but I can't remember the solution. I have tried different settings, even tried new settings, nothing helps. I really need to make a

[Finale] chord and jazz harmony

2007-07-03 Thread Jim Dukey
Hi, I can recommend several things to those interested in Jazz harmony. The Aebersold Miles Davis Transcribed Piano Voicings, by Marc Levine, Herbie Hancock Transcriptions by Bill Dobbins, and any Thad Jones Scores. These are treasure-troves of practical info. Anybody who thinks that the 3rd and

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
So I tried to print the piece to my ordinary printer. Guess what? Same problem. It seems to be Finale's fault. How am I going to get a copy to my client now? Help? Barbara Touburg wrote: Suddenly Acrobat is shrinking the contents of a pdf. The page size is OK, the music is like a postage

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread dhbailey
Barbara Touburg wrote: So I tried to print the piece to my ordinary printer. Guess what? Same problem. It seems to be Finale's fault. How am I going to get a copy to my client now? Help? Barbara Touburg wrote: Suddenly Acrobat is shrinking the contents of a pdf. The page size is OK, the

Re: [Finale] chord and jazz harmony

2007-07-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Jim Dukey / 2007/07/03 / 01:44 PM wrote: Hi, I can recommend several things to those interested in Jazz harmony. The Aebersold Miles Davis Transcribed Piano Voicings, by Marc Levine, Herbie Hancock Transcriptions by Bill Dobbins, and any Thad Jones Scores. These are treasure-troves of practical

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
I'll check all three places. First I have to go and deliver the music (exported hi-res tiffs placed in InD). I'll report back. dhbailey wrote: There are 3 places to set the page size in Finale, if I recall correctly: The Page Format for Score and Parts dialog, in the Page Layout / Page Size

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Raymond Horton
Barbara Touburg wrote: Suddenly Acrobat is shrinking the contents of a pdf. The page size is OK, the music is like a postage stamp. I remember this problem has been coverd before, but I can't remember the solution. I have tried different settings, even tried new settings, nothing helps. I

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:01 PM 7/3/2007, dhbailey wrote: There are 3 places to set the page size in Finale, if I recall correctly: The Page Format for Score and Parts dialog, in the Page Layout / Page Size dialog, and in the Printer setup dialog. All three have to agree to be sure to get what you want. I don't

Re(2): [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread Leigh Daniels
Hiro, Is this because the C-F interval is the strongest because F supported by the leading tone E? **Leigh On Tue, Jul 3, 2007, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly do not deny any chord. My objection is what to call it. C- E-F-G is a FMaj9(Omit 3) chord, because when you play

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Fiskum, Steve
It may possibly be... Go to Finale Preferences-Save and Print: Uncheck Use Finale's Page Orientation Instead of the Printer's Page Orientation Steve On 7/3/07 12:14 PM, Barbara Touburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suddenly Acrobat is shrinking the contents of a pdf. The page size is OK, the

Re: [Finale] Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:16 PM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: My copy of FinMac 2008 arrived just now. I have to go play a gig, but I will install this afternoon and report what little I discover. Wow, when did you order it? June 27, as soon as I got the notice (I know, I'm an

Re: [Finale] chord and jazz harmony

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:07 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Harbie voices F# on E-7(b5). F# doesn't exist on E Locrian. That's why it sounds so cool, but one of a famous jazz schools started to call it Super Locrian. I have a problem with that, big time. Are you sure that it is the locrian nat2

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Leigh Daniels / 2007/07/03 / 03:34 PM wrote: Is this because the C-F interval is the strongest because F supported by the leading tone E? The way I see it, the 3rd is the most important note to characterize the chord in most, if not all, cases. In other word, leaving 3rd out makes its character

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:47 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2007/07/03 / 02:06 AM wrote: Then you WOULD call a C triad C5? And C2 would not have a G in it? I'm sorry, but both these assertions are contrary to what most chord- symbol reading musicians would agree with. Oh you

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 3, 2007, at 4:13 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: As when you write minor second bellow the melody, it effectively destroy the character of the top note as the melody, F against E in this case effectively destroy the character of any kind of C chord, and start to produce gravity shift to F.

Re: [Finale] chord and jazz harmony

2007-07-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2007/07/03 / 04:07 PM wrote: I like to know what the parent scale is, too, but I think most improvisors want to know the scale starting from the bass note. Not me, tho. I rather _see_ the logical scale and want to feel the line I produce. I am a flute/EWI player. I do

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
Where do I find that option? I'm on Windows. Fiskum, Steve wrote: It may possibly be... Go to Finale Preferences-Save and Print: Uncheck Use Finale's Page Orientation Instead of the Printer's Page Orientation Steve ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
It solved the problem! Hallelujah! Brilliant! Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:01 PM 7/3/2007, dhbailey wrote: There are 3 places to set the page size in Finale, if I recall correctly: The Page Format for Score and Parts dialog, in the Page Layout / Page Size dialog, and in the Printer setup

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2007/07/03 / 04:21 PM wrote: I'm glad nobody told Monk, Miles, Gil Evans or Oliver Nelson that. We'd be missing a lot of great music. I used the bad word destroy. I meant blur. These great artists created unique art-form by doing something _special_. I bet they knew the

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2007/07/03 / 02:06 AM wrote: Then you WOULD call a C triad C5? And C2 would not have a G in it? I'm sorry, but both these assertions are contrary to what most chord- symbol reading musicians would agree with. Oh you totally misunderstood me. I said num val is the cut off

Re: [Finale] chord and jazz harmony

2007-07-03 Thread Karen
I've always understood Superlocrian to be built off the seventh degree of a melodic minor scale so yes it is the same as an altered scale. Locrian Nat 2 is built off the sixth degree of the melodic minor scale so it isn't the same as superlocrian. Perhaps this locrian nat 2 voicing is a

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread kaub001
Windows or mac? - Original Message - From: Barbara Touburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 8:28 am Subject: Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems To: finale@shsu.edu So I tried to print the piece to my ordinary printer. Guess what? Same problem. It seems to be Finale's

Re: [Finale] transposition db

2007-07-03 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
The DB sounds an octave lower than written. E.g., if it reads a cello part (which is often does, hence the term Double Bass), it will sound an octave lower than the celli. Dean On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Will Denayer wrote: 'You need to setup the transposition properly for a double bass

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread David Woodcock
I know if I mistakenly put a too high print quality setting in my print dialog, then the pdf comes out too small. The one that works for mine is 300 dpi David Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows or mac? - Original Message - From: Barbara Touburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

[Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Christopher Smith
First report, and as expected, I have very little to report of any use to anyone. Sorry I am such a klutz when it comes to learning new features, but I am REALLY slow! The documentation is now HTML, though it opens in Safari instead of my default browser Firefox, and the windows are preset

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:51 PM 7/3/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: The documentation is now HTML, though it opens in Safari instead of my default browser Firefox, This is true. The documentation will open in Safari on Mac and IE on Windows, regardless of your default browser. I hope this will be fixed later on.

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Patterson
On 7/3/07, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Complain to MakeMusic if they haven't fixed your bugs. They sure haven't fixed many of mine! My impression of this release is that MM didn't care at all about its existing user base for it. I recently went to a demo that Tom Carrathers did

Re: [Finale] Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
FWIW, I pre-ordered the next day after Christopher (in my case, June 28 - so hopefully I'm only slightly less a suck-up!) and according to the order details, it was just shipped today, July 3 - with no tracking info yet available.But with UPS ground, I'll be lucky (or not, as Fin2008 will

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread Raymond Horton
I'm the someone, btw. You know, Aaron, today I checked those three places, didn't change anything as they were all letter size, and then printed a couple of Win2007c files: One from scratch (identical to one that printed tiny yesterday) and one medium-big project I did months ago that always

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:51 PM 7/3/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: Score merger. I notice it is credited to Robert P. Is that OUR Robert Patterson? No, it's Robert Piechaud, who also wrote Human Playback and FinaleScript. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.07.2007 Robert Patterson wrote: My impression of this release is that MM didn't care at all about its existing user base for it. I recently went to a demo that Tom Carrathers did at a convention, and all the improvements in Fin08 seem to be focused on helping his demo. The whole point