Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
-Original Message- From: marcellon...@gmail.com The alto player will have to deal with that wood of sharps! Alto sax players prefer playing in sharps compared to playing in flats. FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER -

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
having to play lots of E# considering them natural F's... Il 03/05/2013 14:38, Phil Daley ha scritto: -Original Message- From: marcellon...@gmail.com The alto player will have to deal with that wood of sharps! Alto sax players prefer playing in sharps compared to playing in flats

Re: [Finale] OT: what to do with old computer

2013-03-29 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/29/2013 05:59 PM, Ryan wrote: Hi list, Looking for ideas on what to do with my old 24'' iMac. Back in November the hard drive failed and I replaced it to finish a project. When the new iMacs came out earlier this year I upgraded. But since the old machine has a brand new hard drive, I'm

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/18/2013 02:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: It's interesting that you consider Finale more intuitive now -- I'm working with it less and less and I find Finale2012 to be very unintuitive to me. That's a good part of why I'm working with it less and less. I will be honest and admit that

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/21/2013 12:05 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:35 AM, dc wrote: Many thanks to all for the sound advice. I'm still wondering if the reduction is absolutely necessary or not - i.e. whether it makes things clearer or not. I have three verses, but never more than two

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
Exactly. It would be way too confusing to do that to 4 part hymns. At 1/21/2013 01:38 PM, dc wrote: Le 21/01/2013 19:14, Phil Daley écrit : I don't get it at all. Where is the alto line? What it the bottom clef? Tenor or bass? It doesn't have any help for any verse

Re: [Finale] Strophic settings

2013-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
Current church hymnals have up to 6. I think more than 4 becomes harder to read. At 1/19/2013 07:50 AM, dc wrote: I'm afraid this question has already been asked, possibly by me! How many verses can decently be put under the same music without it becoming very hard to read? I'd say three

Re: [Finale] Strophic settings

2013-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
Yes, but . . . Verses on a different page are even harder to read than multiple ones under the music. Of course, maybe you wouldn't have to sing those ;-) At 1/19/2013 10:06 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: I agree with Phil Daley that more than 4 becomes hard to read, even though some currently

Re: [Finale] erratic cautionary accidental plugin

2012-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2012 11:01 AM, Michael Mathew wrote: Patrick, Your lackadaisical attitude towards cautionary accidentals will lead to many misinterpretations of your music. Cautionary accidentals are necessary to avoid any confusion about the pitch of a note, thank you very much! Don't be lazy!

Re: [Finale] staff-stave usage, was: Re: rests in layers

2012-06-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/14/2012 08:14 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Thu, June 14, 2012 7:36 am, Florence + Michael wrote: Here's what Elaine Gould writes To keep the stave as uncluttered as possible Just curious: Do you use 'stave' for the singular form? It sounds odd to me, even though it's

Re: [Finale] staff-stave usage, was: Re: rests in layers

2012-06-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/14/2012 02:46 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Since we're on lexicography, can anybody explain why sharps, flats and naturals are called accidentals? Because they cause accidents when playing??? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-03 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/3/2012 12:38 PM, John Howell wrote: At 10:57 AM -0500 6/3/12, Robert Patterson wrote: A question came up at a rehearsal the other day. Does anyone know what piece has the first use of a woodblock in an orchestra? Whatever it was, it was probably in China a number of centuries ago!

Re: [Finale] OT: Australia

2012-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
I spent 3 weeks in Feb. in Australia. A wonderful country. I went to both Sydney and Melbourne. I guess I missed you ;-) At 5/3/2012 08:02 AM, Frank Prain wrote: Thank you, that would be lovely, but I'll have to refuse as I'm actually in Melbourne. :-) Hope you enjoy your trip. cheers

Re: [Finale] The current spam epidemic

2012-04-23 Thread Phil Daley
Not only have I not gotten any Spam email from the list, I haven't gotten any Spam email from the list in the SPAM mailbox. So I think that means the list has not sent any. Somebody must be specifically targeting you. At 4/23/2012 07:13 AM, Adam Taylor wrote: I think it may be your spam

Re: [Finale] OT: Selling PDFs

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/28/2012 09:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: On 3/28/2012 7:49 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: I have been selling my music as PDFs for a while now and was wondering the same things. I recently ordered some music from another composer by means of PDF and email, and noticed that when I got it

Re: [Finale] Tenor-singers Clefs Discussion wrapup

2011-09-18 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/18/2011 01:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Music as a discipline has been shown in studies to improve the ability of students to reason and think. Thus, time spent on teaching music properly could make the other teaching more efficient. We had plenty of time for music when I was a kid. I

Re: [Finale] Tenor-singers Clefs Discussion wrapup

2011-09-17 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/16/2011 11:56 PM, John Howell wrote: By rights we should require good sightreading as a prerequisite before we accepted any student as a college music major, but if we actually did that we wouldn't have any voice majors at all (except the smart ones, many of whom started taking piano

Re: [Finale] Clefs for Tenors in Choir

2011-09-15 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/14/2011 10:13 PM, Scott wrote: As for my personal tastes, having performed pieces ranging from the medieval to the modern, my first choice would of course be the tenor clef. But, when forced to make a choice between the bass clef and the treble 8 clef, I very much prefer reading the

Re: [Finale] Perfect bug storm

2011-06-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/9/2011 11:34 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: So I've known for some time that Fin08 Mac has a bug that it prints blank pages under certain conditions. The way to work around it is to print to PDF with the Generic Postscript driver and then print the PDF with the proper printer driver. Here is

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

2011-02-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/28/2011 02:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I am just mystified as to why Apple thinks this is an insignificant enough issue that they don't provide some kind of backward compatibility option. Or, failing that from Apple itself, why somebody else doesn't step up and build it. I have always

Re: [Finale] dotted notes

2011-02-03 Thread Phil Daley
As a performer, I find the second extremely confusing. It would not be a good sight read. I should think both notes would need dots. At 2/3/2011 10:26 AM, dc wrote: I don't assume it's kosher to have two voices with only one notehead (and two stems), with a dot that only applies to one

Re: [Finale] Completely O.T.

2010-12-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 12/20/2010 02:51 PM, John Howell wrote: At 7:27 AM -0800 12/20/10, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I have an ex student F.B. friend, who wants to know if the last line of this Old English version means deliver us from evil, or from Yule. Any experts? Dean What's F.B.? Fullback? Wow! You are

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/11/2010 08:59 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: On 10/11/2010 4:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't know who said 64-bit Windows does not support Flash. It's simply not true. Absolute balderdash. I think the issue is that there is still not an official release of a 64-bit Flash plugin, just a

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/10/2010 11:18 PM, David McKay wrote: I'm contemplating buying a new computer which is a 64 bit 6 gigs ram, 1 TB hard drive and other stuff. I haven't owned a 64 bit computer before. Will most programs run on a 64 bit computer? Will the latest version of Finale run on a 64 bit computer?

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/11/2010 04:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 12 Oct 2010 at 7:50, David McKay wrote: If 64 bit Windows won't let you use Flash, does that mean no Youtube? Couldn't imagine a life without Youtube at call. Eek! I don't know who said 64-bit Windows does not support Flash. It's simply not

Re: [Finale] OT: Google Search

2010-07-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 7/11/2010 09:29 AM, Nigel Hanley wrote: I receive Google alerts whenever someone searches for my blog, or my name, which is hardly ever, but last night I got one and instead of it being from How do you sign up for alerts? ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Daley
I see an Agree and Install now button about halfway down the screen. At 3/16/2010 01:33 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Andrew, YouTube (and most other online video) is Flash-based. You will need to download the latest version of Flash

Re: [Finale] Interesting behavior

2009-09-30 Thread Phil Daley
From what I have seen, string instruments are more comfortable playing in sharps. Trombones are more comfortable playing in flats. At 9/30/2009 01:40 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: I'm working on a big band piece that has a section in 7 flats (C-Flat) in the middle. Oddly enough, the guitar and

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet at Stonington High School in 1963. He showed me an F-trumpet, I had never

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 06:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: Phil Daley wrote: At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet

[Finale] moving rests

2009-09-11 Thread Phil Daley
Is it possible to move rests vertically, so they don't bump into notes in other layers? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hauptstimme

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/9/2009 11:35 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: But I don't think Toccatta was really part of Finale, I thought that was a shareware thing by Blake Hodgetts. I don't have Toccatta on my system. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] Hiding rests

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
I have an old version of Finale (3.7), but I am pretty sure there was a way to hide rests, but I have forgotten it. Any help appreciated. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hiding rests

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/10/2009 04:33 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: hit the letter O in later versions, I think this has not changed. Which is what I do, but I always use speedy entry, and I'm not sure it works in simple entry, so you may have to switch to speedy to hide the rests. That's it.

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-30 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/29/2009 09:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jun 2009 at 20:53, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:35 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jun 2009 at 13:33, Christopher Smith wrote: I'm just saying that just because the study may be valid, it doesn't mean it applies to

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/28/2009 12:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Until you can demonstrate that the research is flawed and produces unreliable results, I'm going to believe those who've actually taken the time to design mechanisms for testing the proposition, rather than going with the gut feelings of individual

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-27 Thread Phil Daley
I expect the users who were tested were not that familiar with the keyboard shortcuts. It's obviously faster to make a few keystrokes that navigating a set of menus with a mouse. At 6/26/2009 09:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Jun 2009 at 2:20, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius 6 :: Finale discouraging upgrades

2009-05-31 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/31/2009 01:14 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I agree with your comments about the trade-offs of filters versus XML. I would be just as happy if I knew I could send a 2010 filter to any collaborators so that they could open my 2010 files. Not to nitpick, but 2 additional points: 1) Even in a

Re: [Finale] EPS to MS Word

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Daley
Not an expert on this. I wonder if you installed the Microsoft XPS document printer and printed to that, if it would be more compatible? At 5/28/2009 09:23 AM, Greg Scheer wrote: I frequently export EPS files from Finale (2008a.r1 for Mac) for use in our church bulletins. The secretary

Re: [Finale] EPS to MS Word

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Daley
No go. While it makes a nice web document, word can't read it, sorry. At 5/28/2009 09:42 AM, Phil Daley wrote: Not an expert on this. I wonder if you installed the Microsoft XPS document printer and printed to that, if it would be more compatible? At 5/28/2009 09:23 AM, Greg Scheer wrote

[Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
I have a score that I hid rests in a long time ago and I have forgotten how to do it. Can someone help me? Oh, is it possible to move rests vertically? Thanks, Phil ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 04:44 PM, dhbailey wrote: Yes, it's possible to move rests vertically -- click and drag them to where you want them to be. Hide notes/rests with the o (letter o, not zero) and if they're already hidden, hit the o key again to unhide them. Which tool do I have selected while I am

RE: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 04:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote: You can also hide/unhide notes and rests with the H key. Seems more intuitive to me than O. I select the Note Position Tool and it puts a handle above the rest. I click the handle and it selects. I press H, O, * whatever, nothing happens.

RE: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 05:15 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: At 5/4/2009 04:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote: You can also hide/unhide notes and rests with the H key. Seems more intuitive to me than O. I select the Note Position Tool and it puts a handle above the rest. I click the handle and it selects. I press H,

Re: [Finale] Re: rests in pick up measure

2009-03-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/13/2009 06:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 13 Mar 2009 at 16:18, Ray Horton wrote: Dotted half rests, in non-compound meters, give the music an amateurish appearance, just as a conversational tone might tarnish an article for a scholarly journal. Y'know what I mean? Whenever I see a

Re: [Finale] rests in pick up measure

2009-03-11 Thread Phil Daley
What about a dotted half rest? At 3/11/2009 02:28 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: Hi List, In Common time, I have a pick-up measure of 3 quarter notes. For the instruments who don't play, would you prefer to see: 3 quarter rests 1 quarter rest and 1 half rest Is there a correct answer for this case or

Re: [Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/11/2009 04:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: So, in reality, the order of your list ought to be: 1981 -- Xerox Star 1983 -- Apple Lisa 1984 -- Apple Macintosh 1985 -- Microsoft Windows 1 1987 -- IBM OS/2 (April) 1987 -- Microsoft Windows 2 (October) 1990 -- Microsoft Windows 3 1993 --

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/12/2009 05:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 12 Feb 2009 at 17:12, dhbailey wrote: Blake Richardson wrote: Actually it was original at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and Apple stole it from them and then Microsoft stole it from Apple No, Apple *licensed* it from

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/10/2009 09:38 PM, John Howell wrote: If I remember correctly, the desktop concept or analogy (which is clearly what David meant) was original with Apple, and was stolen by Microsoft, which unaccountably won the subsequent lawsuit. So by the time Windoze came along that was all ancient

[Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-11 Thread Phil Daley
As I remember it: Xerox Star Apple Lisa Microsoft Windows 1 Apple Macintosh Microsoft Windows 2 Microsoft Windows 3 IBM OS/2 Microsoft Windows NT At 2/11/2009 09:11 AM, Allen Fisher wrote: Didn't OS/2 have one too? or did Star predate that? On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Phil Daley wrote

Re: [Finale] Cakewalk info

2009-02-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/9/2009 04:45 PM, dhbailey wrote: Cakewalk is a sequencer program -- it's like a digital tape recorder so you can attach the keyboard to your computer via midi cables or a USB cable if one came with the keyboard and set Cakewalk to record and it will record all the midi data. It has a

[Finale] Cakewalk info

2009-02-09 Thread Phil Daley
My wife bought a new portable piano and got a CD with Cakewalk on it. Can someone give a brief explanation of what it is and should I install it? Thanks. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] errors

2009-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
We had a printer at work that used to do that. They added more memory and the errors went away. At 1/19/2009 08:58 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have a couple of Finale files that produce PostScript errors from the Print Monitor. I don't understand what a PS error isbut I do know that

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/9/2009 04:28 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: The first change is to turn Unicode on in all the projects. All 1000 of them. Change char for wchar_t in the source code and recompile. That was the second change, about 250,000 of them. Strings are the hardest part. Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-09 Thread Phil Daley
thought. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Check

2008-10-10 Thread Phil Daley
The list is working At 10/10/2008 02:25 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Is anybody out there, or have I been unsubscribed again? Dean Dean M. Estabrook http://deanestabrook.googlepages.com/home When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/25/2008 05:00 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? If I click the help button, it no longer knows which field I was in. I want help specific to exactly where I am, not just to

[Finale] TAN: Wireless hi-fi

2008-08-21 Thread Phil Daley
I have a receiver with wires running to the speakers. Is it possible to replace the wires with a transmitter/receiver package that would allow one to move speakers anywhere without running wires? Thanks. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/19/2008 10:54 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah David, your right. I know nothing. I suppose the 2 years I made money doing the rather boring work of being a DBA doesn't mean anything. Wow, you sure fooled your bosses. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] [OT] tech help

2008-08-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/13/2008 10:45 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: My brother just bought a new PC with Windows Vista on it, and wonders how to transfer his Outlook address book and bookmarks to it. Do any of you with less obsolete technical skills than I have any hints? Just like any other windows PC except, you

Re: [Finale] O.T. 18th century with F major trumpets

2008-07-21 Thread Phil Daley
At 7/21/2008 10:31 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I'm preparing an edition of an Endler symphony that has a bit of an usual feature: trumpets in F major, and flutes and strings in D major. The flute parts are marked very clearly flauto tranverso NOT in French clef notation. How unusual is this?

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 Announced

2008-07-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 7/11/2008 01:30 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: (It was still far easier than major Windows upgrades, though.) Interesting observation. WinNt4 to Win2000 was mindless, no changes needed. Win2000 to WinXP was mindless, no changes needed. WinXP to Vista is annoying. But Finale 3.7 runs fine on

Re: [Finale] 2009 rumors

2008-05-30 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/29/2008 08:49 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Thanks, man! I took the survey. Anything to save the cost of upgrading yet again. They should love my responses. Especially about how I am using a pre-1998 version and have never upgraded. Also, the question about where I bought it didn't have

Re: [Finale] mac Fin files to PC

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Daley
There are free downloadable programs that enable a PC to read Mac floppy files. At 5/16/2008 09:52 AM, Cecil Rigby wrote: Hi all- a friend has several Mac disks with older Fin files. He no longer has a Mac (and I reluctantly moved to PC myself 3 years ago), so what's the best way to get these

Re: [Finale] Finale and Vista

2008-04-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 4/9/2008 08:37 PM, David McKay wrote: Any problems with using older versions [say 2004] with Windows Vista? Do we need patches or anything? I know that 3.7 works in Vista. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/25/2008 12:20 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY PLAY 2/4. Why? Or should I

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/7/2007 05:24 PM, John Howell wrote: At 8:15 AM -0400 8/7/07, Phil Daley wrote: I think that a travel drive is the way to go. They are faster than a HD and they are more stable than RAM. Phil, is that the little doohickey I've heard called a flash drive or a thumb drive--a Gig on your

Re: [Finale]Fenton

2007-08-08 Thread Phil Daley
of this list are not directly searchable. Excellent point. Something that the know-it-all list members need to consider before complaining. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Phil Daley
quick these days I can't see why anyone would waste memory with a RAM disk... Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: Back

2007-08-07 Thread Phil Daley
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[Finale] OT: Back

2007-08-07 Thread Phil Daley
/18047577/73946/2/ * Microsoft becoming 'software police,' say users http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1902338/18047577/73956/2/ Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OT: Back

2007-08-07 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/7/2007 10:52 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: And your point of posting these is? People need to be informed about the latest computer problems. Might as well have included this link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=418 Good idea, hadn't seen that before. Phil Daley AutoDesk http

[Finale] Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows

2007-06-13 Thread Phil Daley
From: Computerworld First Look Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:22:57 -0400 * Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1643133/18047577/67315/2/ Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

[Finale] Windows Users Don't Care About Safari

2007-06-13 Thread Phil Daley
and let us know. Mitch Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.informationweek.com Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows

2007-06-13 Thread Phil Daley
I think you missed the point that these were APPLE programs. Duh! At 6/13/2007 11:25 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh no! Bugs? In a Windows program. Unheard of! Phil Daley wrote: From: Computerworld First Look Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:22:57 -0400 * Researchers find eight bugs in Safari

Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2007-06-08 Thread Phil Daley
you click it in, because once it's there, it ain't moving. Sibelius did write some great symphonies, but sadly not with Sibelius ;-) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now OT clarinets

2007-06-07 Thread Phil Daley
. I absolutely agree. I have played both those instruments and the worst thing about contra-alto is when some part has a low note not available on that instrument. One would think that arrangers would know what the instruments range is. i guess not. Phil Daley AutoDesk http

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-06 Thread Phil Daley
that thing so memorized, I could probably still play it today ;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Extremely OT: educational systems

2007-06-01 Thread Phil Daley
) are out to lunch. Also, I think mainstreaming is OK, provided that the students who need extra help have individual attendants. But, giving them the same grades and promotions is beyond stupid. And, now, they wonder why high school graduates can't read or do math? Phil Daley

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

2007-05-31 Thread Phil Daley
;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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

2007-05-29 Thread Phil Daley
sure you guys didn't watch Wife Swap last night, but it was a riot. A family with musical kids swapped wives with a family of sports nuts. The sports nut wife called the other kids sissys and girly men. I wonder where that term came from? ;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http

Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's/19th century - and beyond!

2007-05-29 Thread Phil Daley
, and they might have only been pickup. It wasn't that they lasted only 10? 20? 100?, it was that they didn't last 2. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

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

2007-05-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 11:49 PM 5/26/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: On May 26, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Phil Daley wrote: Rock music is non-tonal? That's news to me. Doesn't it do 1-4-5-1? Not too much of it these days. I guess you don't put on a radio very often (not that I blame you for that) but I have a thirteen

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

2007-05-27 Thread Phil Daley
At 12:00 PM 5/26/2007, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I don't have any answers, but there is a cultural shift that isn't limited to the US. The post below appeared on the Two New Hours list a few days ago (Larry Lake is the host of Two New Hours, canceled in March after a quarter century on the

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 11:19 AM 5/26/2007, João Miguel Pais wrote: By the way, JS Bach's music wasn't played almost at all in his last years, and it pratically disappeared until Mendelsson picked it up later (Beethoven and Mozart only got to some scores late in their lives). His contemporaries found it too

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 10:46 PM 5/25/2007, Andrew Stiller wrote: And another thing: non-tonal and atonal are not synonyms. Most music, in fact, is non-tonal: Medieval and Renaissance music, non-Western music (all of it), rock music... Rock music is non-tonal? That's news to me. Doesn't it do 1-4-5-1? Being

Re: [Finale] OT: Listening to new repertoire

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 09:35 PM 5/25/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say, hypothetically, that Phil Daley doesn't really like any music after about Landini. Ask yourself the question, Does that matter? If anyone has some sort of obsessive need to convince Phil that Machaut might be OK as well, that's

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 01:09 PM 5/26/2007, Aaron Rabushka wrote: Wait a minute--how can anyone be wrong about what they like? Like any great composer Bach offers more than just a single attribute, and I think that all three comments here are very perceptive. When people make blanket statements to the effect that

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 01:29 PM 5/26/2007, John Howell wrote: So I think Dennis's point might best be interpreted in this way: Inundation with tonality is there and is unavoidable. There's no maybe later about it! But young minds and young ears ARE open to more than one kind of music, or more than one kind of

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 01:04 PM 5/26/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: On 26 May 2007 at 12:41, Andrew Stiller wrote: I cannot, for example, imagine any American boy nowadays being denounced as a fairy because he played the clarinet. You must live in an entirely different world than *I* live in! Please clarify.

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

2007-05-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 01:13 PM 5/26/2007, Aaron Rabushka wrote: I've always found it interesting that young children can often groove on music that their older siblings don't consider hip and their parents may not even consider music. Case in point: my youngest brother who never griped about music I was listening

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

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Daley
paint against canvas. ie. totally useless. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ 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 Phil Daley
to be force-fed the Jupiter Symphony or Beethoven 5 or 6 or 3 or Dvorak's Symphony From the New World. I like to listen to DEWM music. I would specifically avoid concerts of new non-music. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

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

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Daley
have managed to get it removed.) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ 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 Phil Daley
institution bestowed on you and we can continue the discussion. My favorite composer is JS Bach. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ 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 Phil Daley
of audience and some have them have gone bankrupt. IMHO, this is because they perform too many new music things. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

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

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/25/2007 02:58 PM, John Howell wrote: Oh certainly. No argument there. But when a huge percentage of the population enjoys music which is tonal, rhythmically coherent, and non-aeleatoric, the questions don't last very long. Absolutely my point, thanks. Phil Daley AutoDesk

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

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/25/2007 03:32 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: h, and i used to have trouble listening to bach. and i used to not be able to play scales on the piano. oh, and i hated olives when i was a teenager and now can't get enough of them. Bach has been my favorite composer since I was 7. Phil

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

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Daley
concept to me, but I guess a lot of music people have much less sensitive ears than I do. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ 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 Phil Daley
At 5/25/2007 03:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I think that is an opinion with no factual basis. Reading Gregory Sandow's blog: Is this some know-it-all person? The information I have comes from daily newspapers. People, who don't know what current public option is, are out in the dark. Phil

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