[Finale] OT: orchestral piece for education

2010-04-18 Thread Matthew Hindson (gmail)
Dear listers, Something different: I'm racking my brains to give my 1st year beginner music theory students a public domain orchestra piece that is a good demonstration of the different instrument families of the orchestra and introductory score reading. My first thought was perhaps Jupiter

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread John Howell
At 3:30 PM -0700 4/17/10, Ryan wrote: Where is it necessary to place the dynamics when writing for organ? The manuscript I'm working from isn't consistent in the placement of dynamics. It also doesn't specify individual stops to use (for example, a trumpet stop that would naturally sound louder

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread timothy . price
On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:50 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The player could tell from the content of the music what was intended in regard to all of those parameters. So can any properly-trained modern organist. That may be the problem with the academic world view of music, thus one might read a

Re: [Finale] OT: orchestral piece for education

2010-04-18 Thread John Howell
At 6:54 PM +1000 4/18/10, Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: Dear listers, Something different: I'm racking my brains to give my 1st year beginner music theory students a public domain orchestra piece that is a good demonstration of the different instrument families of the orchestra and

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Apr 2010 at 9:40, timothy.price wrote: On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:50 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The player could tell from the content of the music what was intended in regard to all of those parameters. So can any properly-trained modern organist. Note that this comment is taken

Re: [Finale] OT: orchestral piece for education

2010-04-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Apr 2010 at 14:14, John Howell wrote: And of course his 5/4 waltz movement from another symphony is a masterpiece of non-standard meter, alternating 3+2 with 2+3 throughout, that was unequalled until Brubeck's Take 5! I don't know the exact level of the orchestra that this was asked

Re: [Finale] OT: orchestral piece for education

2010-04-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: Dear listers, Something different: I'm racking my brains to give my 1st year beginner music theory students a public domain orchestra piece that is a good demonstration of the different instrument families of the orchestra and introductory score reading. My first

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Perhaps there are WYSIWYG editors that produce TeX output, Lyx is pretty much what you just said (http://www.lyx.org/) It's very good, really nikce. You can get the quality of TeX and it's not difficult to learn. As easy as MS-Word. You can import EPS graphics and Lilypond files (

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Other thingg good for academic works is that it organizes the indexes, doc, bibliographys, citations, footnotes all altomaticalle. References you an prepare with zotero and/or bibtex. For academic works it's the best. On 18 April 2010 20:04, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread timothy . price
On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 18 Apr 2010 at 9:40, timothy.price wrote: On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:50 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The player could tell from the content of the music what was intended in regard to all of those parameters. So can any properly-trained modern

Re: [Finale] OT: orchestral piece for education

2010-04-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: Something different: I'm racking my brains to give my 1st year beginner music theory students a public domain orchestra piece that is a good demonstration of the different instrument families of the orchestra and introductory score reading. Since you're in

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Apr 2010 at 19:58, timothy.price wrote: On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 18 Apr 2010 at 9:40, timothy.price wrote: On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:50 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The player could tell from the content of the music what was intended in regard to all of

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread Ryan Beard
Wow. Didn't mean to start up such a debate! Perhaps I should clarify my situation. I'm engraving a piece for organ by a dead composer. He has marked dynamics in the music. Sometimes there's one marking under the top staff only. Sometimes there's a marking under all three staves. Sometimes

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Apr 2010 at 18:56, Ryan Beard wrote: Perhaps I should clarify my situation. I'm engraving a piece for organ by a dead composer. He has marked dynamics in the music. Sometimes there's one marking under the top staff only. Sometimes there's a marking under all three staves. Sometimes

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread John Howell
At 7:58 PM -0400 4/18/10, timothy.price wrote: Don't pay any attention to non-organist comments, they can be misleading. If that's referring to me, No, I was not referring to you, but to John Howell's previous comment about thinking it best not to include dynamic markings, but that he was

Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics

2010-04-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Ryan, If you are not familiar with the conventions of music notation for the organ in the place and at the time the composer lived, the best thing to do is to consult with someone who is. Take the MS, or a printout of your notesetting effort to an experienced organist, and get their opinions.