On 25.12.2008 Aaron Sherber wrote:
There are a lot of things for which this is true. I sent in a feature request a
few years ago for something like staff styles that could be used for note
spacing. (I had a piece that went along nicely in 4/4 and 3/4 and then had a
section in very slow 4/8. I
At 12:58 PM -0500 12/25/08, Martin Banner wrote:
This piece, by Domenico Cimarosa, is for SATB choir, two trombe, two
oboes, violins, celli and bass.
Well, the problem would go away, of course, if you chose to reduce
the note values by half and notate it in 4/4. Which I would
seriously
At 05:28 AM 12/26/2008, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
There are a lot of things for which this is true. I sent in a
feature request a few years ago for something like staff styles that
could be used for note spacing. (I had a piece that went along nicely
in 4/4 and 3/4 and then had a section in very
At 10:57 AM -0500 12/25/08, Martin Banner wrote:
I am working on an 18th Century edition from an autograph manuscript
(dated 1769). The final movement of this choral/orchestral work is a
fugue in cut time (4/2 time). Although the autograph manuscript
notates a full measure rest with a double
John Howell wrote:
There's no doubt in my mind that if it's a modern edition (and not an
attempt at an exact urtext reproduction) you should go with the modern
convention.
I am sure others on the list may have a strong opinion about the main
point of this statement. I do not (at least, not
At 9:29 AM -0600 12/26/08, Robert Patterson wrote:
John Howell wrote:
Same thing with multimeasure rests instead of incomprehensible
stacks of old-time rest values.
Incomprehensible? Those incomprehensible stacks have saved my
bacon a numerous times when the number was illegible. (In
I just found out. I set up a canon composition work, made a finale notepad
2008 crash course, and asked the class to deliver it as a (free!) Finale
notepad file.
Now I'm getting a lot of mails - shall/must I buy? bla bla...
I really liked finale notepad as a free program, whatever limited, for
Sadly, you are in quite a bit there. MakeMusic making Notepad a $$
program was a fatal error in my opinion. They should have left it as a
free product.
But getting a pirated version of a program for a class? That is a good
way to get sued and potentially get fired. Seriously? Recommending to
At 11:51 PM +0100 12/26/08, Kurt Gnos wrote:
If Sibelius makes a free version, it's another reason for me to switch...
It does not, if I read the website correctly.
However, given the cost of textbooks, workbooks, and other class
supplies these days, $9.95 is hardly daunting even for
On 25 Dec 2008 at 15:52, John Howell wrote:
I just checked in Roemer (1973). He doesn't say anything about using
a whole rest in all time signatures, but he does show the
double-whole rest as obsolete.
If that's what he says, then he's just WRONG. He likely ignores early
music, where the
On 25 Dec 2008 at 15:57, John Howell wrote:
At 12:58 PM -0500 12/25/08, Martin Banner wrote:
This piece, by Domenico Cimarosa, is for SATB choir, two trombe, two
oboes, violins, celli and bass.
Well, the problem would go away, of course, if you chose to reduce
the note values by half and
On 26 Dec 2008 at 13:38, dc wrote:
Johannes Gebauer écrit:
But this you can do easily without staff styles. Just space the piece by
sections with different settings. Perhaps it is better to have automatic
music spacing off for this.
But it's a nuisance to have to space the piece by
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