Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Timothy A. Johnson
Yes, Andrew, I fully understand writing for natural horns without key signatures - and even writing for a modern valved horn without key signatures if the part is written in the key of the piece, with a simple notation that it is for horn in that key (e.g. R. Strauss' Horn concertos were written fo

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread John Howell
At 6:24 AM -0500 10/11/09, Timothy A. Johnson wrote: Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet teacher confid

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Timothy A. Johnson wrote: Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet teacher

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Timothy A. Johnson
Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet teacher confidently stated that hornists don't like key signatures; t

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-08 Thread Robert Patterson
Set the horn staves to independent key sig and change their key to the key of F major. Set the staves back to Key Sig based transposition in F. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: > Mac Finale 2008.Orchestra piece in C Minor (3 flats). Horns are in F and > should appear without a k

[Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-08 Thread Ryan Beard
Mac Finale 2008.Orchestra piece in C Minor (3 flats). Horns are in F and should appear without a key signature.I've chosen Chromatic Transposition in Staff Attributes. Finale shows three flats in the horn staff (which isn't what I want), so I've chosen regular transposition and hide key signatur