Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
When we used this technique, the players simply blew through the instruments with the mouthpieces in place. It was audible from the audience. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread dhbailey
Robert Patterson wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:47 PM, dhbailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com wrote: Perhaps the effect differs with different numbers of people doing it, but I've heard it done quite effectively without anybody reversing mouthpieces. So help me to understand. You

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread John Howell
At 9:52 PM -0600 3/13/10, Robert Patterson wrote: So help me to understand. You are sitting in the audience of a large hall listening to an ensemble with a large number of players. How do you know whether they were reversing their mouthpieces? I ask in all seriousness, because many players do

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Aaron Rabushka
All depends on who wins the power game. Aaron J. Rabushka arabus...@austin.rr.com - Original Message - From: John Howell john.how...@vt.edu To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments At 9:52 PM -0600

[Finale] glissando marking, also merging

2010-03-14 Thread Katherine Hoover
Dear Finale List Working on a mac OSX, Finale 2004. The glissando marking comes with the wordglissando running up its back. How can I get rid of the word? Or is there another way to mark a gliss? Also - I received no answer about merging, or combining files. Perhaps

Re: [Finale] glissando marking, also merging

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
On 3/14/2010 10:03 AM, Katherine Hoover wrote: Dear Finale List Working on a mac OSX, Finale 2004. The glissando marking comes with the wordglissando running up its back. How can I get rid of the word? Or is there another way to mark a gliss? Also - I received no answer about merging, or

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Robert Patterson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Aaron Rabushka arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote: All depends on who wins the power game. As a composer visiting for a couple of days to a professional ensemble that plays together all the time, you can't win the power game, and you best not try. Orchestras are one

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-03-14 Thread toronado455
Been checking the Sibelius/Avid websites on the crossgrade frequently over the last few weeks, and it is always showing as SOLD OUT for the boxed version. I'd really rather have the shipped box than the download. The offer ends this Friday, the 19th. Any suggestions?

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-03-14 Thread John Howell
At 11:53 AM -0700 3/14/10, toronado...@gmail.com wrote: Been checking the Sibelius/Avid websites on the crossgrade frequently over the last few weeks, and it is always showing as SOLD OUT for the boxed version. I'd really rather have the shipped box than the download. The offer ends this Friday,

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread timothy . price
On Mar 14, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: reversing the mouthpiece *definitely* does. As radical an idea as actual experimentation may be, I tried it on my trumpet, and by gosh, you get a much louder sound using the reversed mouthpiece. Imagine that ! timothy.key.price

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 14, 2010, at 11:17 AM, John Howell wrote: ... just as it would be if he tried to write for lute with brass choir? That sounds like a challenge! mdl ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-03-14 Thread toronado455
Thanks! On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, John Howell john.how...@vt.edu wrote: At 11:53 AM -0700 3/14/10, toronado...@gmail.com wrote: Been checking the Sibelius/Avid websites on the crossgrade frequently over the last few weeks, and it is always showing as SOLD OUT for the boxed version.

Re: [Finale] glissando marking, also merging

2010-03-14 Thread Ray Horton
dershem wrote: On 3/14/2010 10:03 AM, Katherine Hoover wrote: Dear Finale List Working on a mac OSX, Finale 2004. The glissando marking comes with the wordglissando running up its back. How can I get rid of the word? Or is there another way to mark a gliss? Also - I received no answer about

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Mar 2010 at 13:17, John Howell wrote: lute with brass choir This made me laugh out loud, and start imagining impossible ensembles. I started with the bass lute with brass choir, and turned it into solo lute on-stage with antiphonal brass choirs in the side galleries. Other than mixing

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
On 3/14/2010 1:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Mar 2010 at 13:17, John Howell wrote: lute with brass choir This made me laugh out loud, and start imagining impossible ensembles. I started with the bass lute with brass choir, and turned it into solo lute on-stage with antiphonal brass

[Finale] Answer to Sibelius question

2010-03-14 Thread John Howell
I'm sorry that there's no stock in the online store at the moment. I checked on this with my colleagues this past Friday and they assure me that more stock is on its way to the warehouse, and it should be back in stock on Tuesday or Wednesday. Daniel -- Daniel Spreadbury Senior Product Manager

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread John Howell
At 4:44 PM -0400 3/14/10, David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Mar 2010 at 13:17, John Howell wrote: lute with brass choir This made me laugh out loud, and start imagining impossible ensembles. I started with the bass lute with brass choir, and turned it into solo lute on-stage with antiphonal

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:16 PM, dershem wrote: On 3/14/2010 1:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Mar 2010 at 13:17, John Howell wrote: lute with brass choir This made me laugh out loud, and start imagining impossible ensembles. I started with the bass lute with brass choir, and turned it

[Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from 2/4 to 6/8 and I want it to do dotted quarter note = quarter notebut the human playback doesn't seem to catch it. ideas/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Chuck Israels
I'd try putting in a hidden expression for playback where the dotted quarter had the same mm values as the preceding half note. Seems to me that should work. Chuck On Mar 14, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
On 3/14/2010 4:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh, so you can't just graphically have a quarter note then an = then a dotted quarter? :-/ That's the easy part. But if you use playback, it will change the tempo. If you don't use playback, it's very simple. cd On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:44

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Man, thats lamewe have all this other fluff in Finale, but something like this you have to hack around to get the playback to work correctly? On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:56 PM, dershem ders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh, so you can't just graphically have

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
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Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, it is true that it will do the same thing as I want, assigning the dotted quarter the same numeric value as the quarter, but ideally i think in a score you'd want the graphical dotted quarter = quarter and then when it switches back to 2/4 a graphical quarter = dotted quarter. Just seems

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Eric, When I want to do this, I use text expressions, defined for playback. In this case, I'd have three expressions. One is a quarter note, which is not defined for playback. The other two look the similar--(= 000) and ( . = 000) where 000 is the value representing the tempo. These two

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Eric Dannewitz wrote: Well, it is true that it will do the same thing as I want, assigning the dotted quarter the same numeric value as the quarter, but ideally i think in a score you'd want the graphical dotted quarter = quarter and then when it switches back to 2/4 a graphical quarter = dotted

Re: [Finale] combining files

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Katherine Hoover wrote: I'm working on a Mac OS 10, with Finale 2004. I would like to combine two files (parts for movements 1 2) into one. I couldn't find information under combine or under merge. How can i do this? [Note: My experience is that trying to merge files involves a lot of

Re: [Finale] combining files

2010-03-14 Thread Ray Horton
Excellent instructions, Noel. I would add one thing: Noel Stoutenburg wrote: When files contain lyrics, I have had the best luck when I did not try to merge the lyrics by this method. Based upon my experience, if I were called upon to do this, between step 2 and 3 above, I would delete all

Re: [Finale] combining files

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Ray Horton wrote: One could also try zapping all of the lyrics in the target file (go into edit lyrics and erase them there), then copy the lyrics from the lyric staves in each both source files onto the same staves in the target file. (Change the filter under Edit if necessary.). I believe you

Re: [Finale] combining files

2010-03-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 14, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: It is my experience with various versions of Windows Finale, that copying lyrics into a file which already contains lyrics produces results which cannot be predicted based upon Finale documentation. In general, when trying to copy lyrics