Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
is the ordinary dominant chord in A minor and is utterly routine for music in that key; but in this song it strikes the ear as a completely unexpected altered chord, whose uncanniness perfectly illustrates the text. It is not tonal. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] berlioz notation programme

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Put this down as another example of the French wanting to go it alone (words like logiciel--for software-- are another example of that...) Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
there were numerous critics and conductors who asserted that he was a coldly intellectual composer whose music would never be popular. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
figure out why; maybe it was the F word. Generally, students who spoke to me afterwards said they were fascinated, or thanked me for explaining a repertoire they hadn't previously understood. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
loved it. So did the teachers. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
thought about it oppositely: that a pop tune gives up all its secrets on one listening, whereas with a classical piece there are often new insights with every hearing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 25, 2007, at 1:20 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: All of these people would benefit from absorbing the message of Wagner's Meistersinger. That people should support German composers??? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 25, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: Sure, I like Bach; I marvel especially at his contrapuntal creativity; I enjoy the sound of his music. Me, I like his grinding dissonances! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
, I assume your blanket condemnation does not extend to any of these musics, but is limited to that properly called atonal. Even that puts you *way* out on a limb. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Key signature question

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
. And in modern practice, do I still need a double barline with a change of key signature? No. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
: classical composition, like poetry, is not at all remunerative, especially in America. One can become very famous indeed and still be scrabbling for every penny. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Fwd: How to get 1/2 into a text expression

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Fwd: How to get 1/2 into a text expression

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
/2). The ones I have seen (and that I use) contain only numbers and slashes, with no other characters. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] OT: music terminology

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
with a major orchestra. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: music terminology

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
a lot from it. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: works in octaves, unison etc.

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
There is an orchestral work, _Le Méditation de Purun Baghat_, by Koechlin that I have not heard but that has been described as a strict monody, which I assume means unison throughout. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] RE: O.T. Bass Flutes

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
reach. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] dash or hyphen?

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
for a hard hyphen. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Beer or ale? OT (very)

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 14, 2007, at 6:01 PM, keith helgesen wrote: Speaking of OT - from whence commeth the whole nine yards? Origin anyone? You've been given two of the many folk-etymologies for this expression. For the real story, visit http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/nineyards.htm Andrew

Re: [Finale] dash or hyphen?

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
* the volume occupied by a pound of water. The proverb (in addition to being a good mnemonic for that fact) says in effect that certain things are true under all circumstances. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Bass Flutes

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
, in my _Procrustean Concerto for the B Flat Clarinet_ on MMC 2105. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Bass Flutes

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
of flute, playing the ordinary flute literature at the same pitch, but with a mellower tone. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] eggcorn

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
I'll have to demure to the Bach experts on that). demur. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Bass Flutes

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 15, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On 5/15/07, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sources say it had no literature of its own, but was simply an alternative type of flute, Your sources are quite wrong then: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner

Re: [Finale] dash or hyphen?

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
, colloquial US English uses bar in the British sense all the time--it's just not acceptable in formal writing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] dash or hyphen?

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
the world round. For this to be true, a pint must be 16 oz. everywhere. So what's the deal here? --Or is the 20-oz. pt. like a baker's dozen? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] playback issue

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
.) but nothing works. All four parts, apparently, must be assigned to Instrument 4 and nothing else. That would be OK if I could only send the individual parts to different channels, but I can't. What's going on here, and what should I do about it? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960)

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
as a contestant on an Italian quiz show and cleaned up in the category mushrooms. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
is required for the line to scan, then the composer must either set the word to two syllables, or deliberately violate the scansion. The latter is, of course, done all the time for all kinds of musical reasons, but still it is an issue the composer has to bear in mind. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
been put into scores in the past fifty years, often by major composers. Check out any score by Crumb, e.g. I do some of these things myself. For example, I feel that if the dynamic is not specified at the end of a hairpin, you're just asking for trouble. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the fake?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: too much notating; was: Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
he could do his job? When Stravinsky put a non crescendo marking in _The Firebird_, the conductor turned to him and said, Young man, if you don't want a crescendo then don't write anything. Some things never change. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] OT: too much notating; was: Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
repertoire is dominated by pieces written to the old rule, and so may improperly carry it over to more recent work. There are actually a great many conventional notations whose meaning changed in the period between, say, Mendelssohn and Bartòk, but most musicians don't realize this. Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] Conducting in 12/8

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
. 2) Nonetheless, it should be the shortest possible measure that could convey such an impression. 3) It should actively discourage the listener from imagining any kind of subdivision. I would consider any performance that worked against this conception to be flawed. Andrew Stiller

[Finale] Re: Cage (was:12/8)

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
ready to out-outrageous any joke. Dick Higgins (primarily a poet) has a piece called Danger Music, (it was published in _Source_) one movement of which consists solely of the instruction: Crawl into the vagina of a living whale! (exclamation point sic) Beat that! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

[Finale] Cage (let's *please* drop the 12/8 from this thread!)

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 4, 2007, at 7:47 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: his works for percussion are brilliant examples, ripe for inclusion in any textbook on composition, As they are, in fact, in my _Handbook of Instrumentation._ and vital study for anyone writing for percussion. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] Conducting in 12/8

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
On 4-May-07, at 6:38 AM, Phil Daley wrote: Survey 100 people on the street. At least 99 would say, John who? To which you reply, You know: the guy Nicholas Cage named himself after. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] Conducting in 12/8

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
, is by definition a minority taste. Expecting it to be popular is like expecting fine dining at MacDonald's. (And no, that wasn't a putdown of MacDonald's. Think about where you *do* find fine dining, and what percentage of the population patronises it) Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

[Finale] Re: Don Cherry (was: Conducting in 12/8)

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
with the trio Codona (an Oregon spinoff) about ten years later, and was highly impressed. I reviewed the concert very favorably for the _Buffalo News_, and even went so far as to buy one of their records for my (small) jazz collection. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Conducting in 12/8

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
not, IMO, automatically imply 4 dotted Q to any educated musician. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
, quoted above, prefers the British pronunciation--which I imagine would sound a bit affected in an American text. Imagine: The most beautiful sound I evah heud: Maria (Maria Maria) All the beautiful sounds in the weuld in a single weud: Maria (Maria Maria) Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Re: Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
since heaps of English speakers otherwise won't sing it as two syllables, if that is your intention. The analogy doesn't follow. Auden's rhyming of fire w. Messiah shows that British poetry divides fire as often as American, pronouncing it fi-ah. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
a character in a book. And let's not get started on February. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Test of a PDF on Mac

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
as rectangles. Clearly some kind of font problem. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: A clear example of this is the long melisma in #5 of Handel's Messiah, and the desi-i-i-i-i-i-ire of all nations shall come. This is consistent with what basic correct choral diction would dictate for any diphthong. Is this that same

Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
at all: he was a tin-pan-alley crooner, one of the last of them. It's true that people used to use jazz to refer to any type of modern American popular music--but that hasn't been the case for fifty or more years now! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
and is impossible to suppress. AFAIK. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] should we expect...

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
, is/are the unnecessary prompts to save (e.g., after printing). You'd think the developers would keep an eye out for this perennial and clean it out of any new upgrade rather than foisting it--yet again--on the users. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
, but a buggy step backward. All subsequent Mac versions of Finale use 2K4 as a baseline--and indeed, 2K7 is a superior product to 2K4, though it is still dramatically inferior to 2K2. Only half of this problem is MakeMusic's fault. The other half is Apple's. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

[Finale] old (not early) music encyclopedia (was: Bach triplets)

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
prominent contributors? There is no mention of such a thing in Grove Online's list of music dictionaries and encyclopedias, and this does not appear to be an edition of Schilling. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Sandpaper block notation

2007-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
is the norm. The tremolo can--should--be notated as for other insts., w. triple strokes thru the note stem. A continuous rub in a specific direction can be indicated w. upbow or downbow symbols. All of this is in my book. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] Chord Font missing

2007-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On a perhaps related front, I see that in FinMac 2K7a the font Hoefler Text Ornaments disappears, though it temporarily reappears when the textblock containing it is edited. What's going on, and how do I fix it? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Sandpaper block notation

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
The rules are as for güiro. See my book, pp. 184-186. There I give forte as the loudest volume attainable on the sandblocks, but if anything I think it would be less. Certainly a violin's fortissimo would drown out anything the sandblocks could produce. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Show n' tell, etc.

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
dialog is already overstuffed. My feeling has long been that Move/Copy Layers belongs within Mass Edit/Change, where it would be called simply Layers. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
disguised, and playing material not associated w. him, would have attracted as little attention under the specified circumstances as Bell did. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Free speech

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
would do so. Really? Check out how Jefferson and Adams treated each other during the former's presidency. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
unsuccessfully to google, they have no online presence at all. Finale users are a highly specialized subculture. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
of it. Instead, I will simply say this: that a busker is a form of beggar, and everything else follows from that. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
up on the Finale list at all, and *extremely* surprised that the thread has proven to have the legs it has shown. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

[Finale] Free speech (was: Joshua Bell)

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
of common civility that is sorely lacking these days in many who have the luxury of the airwaves on their side. Evidently you have not read many 19th-c. newspapers. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
-- there were never more than a few dozen of these characters to begin with. I doubt that Giuliani ever had the slightest hint of the squeegee situation in Philadelphia: few in number, but positioned at crucial intersections. The whole world is not NYC, you know. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

[Finale] clef change after grace note

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] p circle

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
himself I remember only that he was already on his way out the conservatory door, that this concert was his parting shot. At that same conference I made friends w. Jean Laurendeau, who played ondes martenot in Vivier's piece, and has gone on to be a major exponent of his instrument. Andrew

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
of worldly gifts. I perceived the religious theme, and ignored it. The question how can this doofus write so much better than me? does not require the intervention of a creator to attract serious attention. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
superior--which is hogwash both as an equation and in historical fact. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Copyright and artistic expression

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
was not intended to encompass a period extending 70 or even fifty years beyond the creator's death. Personally, I doubt the framers of the constitution thought of anything more than 15 or 20 years--but hey... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:59 AM, dhbailey wrote: What's wrong with a movie with a wonderfully heart-warming tale: Boy meets boat, boy loses boat, boy drowns. :-) Any movie w. a major character based on Beatice Wood has got my vote. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:08 AM, dhbailey wrote: I wonder what drama there was in his life which people think will make interesting movies. Maybe a remake of *Some Like It Hot.* There's these two guys, see, who are fleeing assassins, and try to disguise themselves off as members of Tony

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
to allow Shaffer to tell his story, and shouldn't be criticized for departing from accurate representation of history. And you've got to remember that the whole thing is derived from Pushkin's *Mozart and Salieri,* wherein the historical inaccuracies were not yet known to be such. Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] 15ma Clef

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I followed the instructions in the manual RE: Nonstandard Key Sigs and Accidental Octave Placement for my 15ma treble clef, but nothing happened. I then opened an older document with a 15ma treble clef I KNOW I had configured correctly,

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
be fantastic. We'll see. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T.: 2 Vivaldi movies slated to be released

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 25, 2007, at 8:46 PM, John Howell wrote: Hmmm. What Amadeus did was to make Mozart look like an idiot!! Maybe, but it booted Beethoven off the Greatest Classical Composer throne and installed Mozart on it. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] 15ma Clef

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
version of Petrucci, and anybody who wants a copy can have one. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: International Music Score Library Project

2007-03-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
these. Critical editions of the piece correct numerous other errors in the old publications, but these are the usual minor stuff that makes little difference in the actual sound of the piece. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Measure numbering with repeats

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
ending *must* be numbered differently--one way or another--than the first, or confusion will reign. Voilà tout. People like Johannes can use 16a and 16b if they want--but they cannot leave everything blank, or they are doing a disservice to the performers. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Measure numbering with repeats

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
to unambiguously refer to a particular measure without fear of being misunderstood. That being the case, measures in first and second endings *must* be numbered differently, one way or another. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Measure numbering with repeats

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
player who insisted passionately that key signatures for horns were always and forever improper. This current discussion smells a lot like that... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Measure numbering with repeats

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
must mean the second bar *of* C--but that would be *two* after C--so there is always confusion in such cases unless the conductor takes care to phrase his request with of, or says something like the second full measure after C. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] FAN Files

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
articulation or slur tip placement for those several of my fonts for which no FAN files exist? That in fact Finale's behavior in such cases has been *deliberately* reverted to what it was in Finale 2.X? Some improvement, there! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] Glass Armonica

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
as there is no other instrument called by that name (in English, anyway)--and Franklin himself just called it armonica without the modifier. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] O.T. Naming of instruments, advice?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
in the instrumentation list that precedes the first page of score. 2) Cram the three names onto the first page, extending a little above and a little below the staff. On all subsequent pp. use the abbreviations Vc, Vne, Fag all on one line. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] adding transpositions

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
that is NOT what you're doing!) lower it a minor 3rd. Even easier: find the alto sax settings and duplicate them. Add 1 to the transposition interval, click the Chromatic Transposition radio button and you're home free. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Glass Armonica

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
the bottom staff. If the instrument were written an octave below its sounding pitch (like the celesta), this expanded range would require the use of bass clef. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] adding transpositions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
mouse clicks? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 Mac HYPHENS in lyrics

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
a system break, but are attached to the word [end]. Deleting [end] deletes the hyphens as well, and I've had to replace them with an appropriate text expression. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
this was done, and the effect is as if there are alternating black and white beams. Very confusing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
of these wrong (it's been years), but the basic system is as I've outlined it. If nothing else, these syllables make great Scrabble words (no, they're not in the official dictionary--which is one reason I refuse to play by the official dictionary). Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
For whatever it may be worth, I had a similar (not identical) problem with my LaserJet 5000N printer when I upgraded to FinMac 2K7. The solution turned out to be to change the printer ID in the Page Setup dialog from the name of my printer to the generic Any Printer. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
scores (Ravel and Messiaen) and they do not remove staff lines. Debussy, La Mer, International Music Co. (presumably a reproduction of the original pubn.) blanks out the staff lines but, oddly enough, not the stems. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] Rights for recorded tunes and arrangements?

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
, the Bonaparte's Retreat part of it (much of the music in that movement is entirely original to Copland)? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Clarinet Quintet, for instance. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course Mahler's famous quote from The Sound of Music in the finale of his first symphony - Soh, a needle pulling thread And don't forget White Christmas in the 9th! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

[Finale] French beams

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
haven't the faintest idea how to create French beams in the first place (except one note at a time w. Special Tools), and certainly, therefore, no idea how to undo them. Any ideas? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

[Finale] RE German

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
the German says? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] malapropism alert!

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
I protracted an extended illness. Contracted. I contracted an extended illness. Or maybe I contracted a protracted illness :- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] HP Laserjet 5000 Duplexer

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
to break down. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] German

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
as: Even when it lies forgetful in the dust, / Still it abides in patience. --but this doesn't quite feel right to me. Have I gone astray somehow, or is this basically correct? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html

Re: [Finale] German

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:47 AM, shirling neueweise wrote: I agree, Schlußlied is another possibility. end song!? more likely schlaflied, as was suggested elsewhere. End song is an awkward translation. Concluding Song or Final Song is more idiomatic, and makes perfect sense. Andrew

Re: [Finale] O.T. G Major : Trumpets rare?

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
an octave *lower.* As for the high G the 2d Brandenburg requires, there are numerous examples of its use on trumpets of various sizes--not necessarily in F, but what does that matter? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

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