Ah, another alumnus of 1527 1/2 North Vine St. in Hollywood!!! I
wonder if they're still there. We used engrossing ink, which most
people have never heard of.
There is a character who posts under the NOM DE FINALE of N. Grossingink.
'Zat you??
At 1:54 PM -0800 2/19/06, Chuck Israels wrote:
*The most readable staff size is 8.5mm, measured from the bottom to
the top of the staff.
I think that's 100%, and looks too large to my eye.
On a music stand, with a stand partner, with a reading distance of
30-36 to the far side of the
At 3:07 PM -0800 2/19/06, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Mein Gott ... I'm just remembering my MA Thesis, which composed in
1965 or so, and consists of 87 pages of score for 22 wind
instruments. I, of course, hand copied the thing using india ink
on vellum from Cameo Music in Hollywood, working 8
Mine was Alpheus but about a year ago I donated it to someone who would use
it.
Richard Smith
www.rgsmithmusic.com
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From: John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: reduction size (was Pesky
On 20.02.2006 John Howell wrote:
I think that's 100%, and looks too large to my eye.
On a music stand, with a stand partner, with a reading distance of 30-36 to
the far side of the page, and eyes that need trifocals? The guideline specifies
strings, and strings have stand partners (give or
I think everybody agrees that rehearsal numbers or letters every ten
bars is a bad idea.
Stravinsky used them in late scores. IM(very)HO it was his way of
seeming as detached and unemotional as possible about his music and
telling the performers you figure it out. But he was Stravinsky.
I think that's 100%, and looks too large to my eye.
On a music stand, with a stand partner, with a reading distance of
30-36 to the far side of the page, and eyes that need trifocals? The
guideline specifies strings, and strings have stand partners (give or
take the bass section).
One of
John Howell wrote:
At 3:07 PM -0800 2/19/06, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Mein Gott ... I'm just remembering my MA Thesis, which composed in
1965 or so, and consists of 87 pages of score for 22 wind
instruments. I, of course, hand copied the thing using india ink on
vellum from Cameo Music in
I often wondered what happened to Cameo too man, that was a long
time ago. I still have my electric eraser sitting hard by me, like an
old soldier longing for the sounds of the battlefield. Might hang on to
the vellums, who knows, perhaps a museum might place some value on the
antiquities
on 2/20/06 12:05 PM, Raymond Horton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Later, one of the Cameo main employee's started her own company - what
was that name?
Unless that scenario played out more than once I believe you're thinking of
Judy Green, and I thought she came from Alpheus. My wife
I think Cameo became Judy Green Music, which is the only one left.
Joel Sears
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Of Dean M. Estabrook
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:22 PM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: reduction size
, 2006 12:51 PM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: reduction size (was Pesky Page Turns)
on 2/20/06 12:05 PM, Raymond Horton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Later, one of the Cameo main employee's started her own company - what
was that name?
Unless that scenario played out more than once
I often wondered what happened to Cameo too man, that was a
long time ago. I still have my electric eraser sitting hard by me,
like an old soldier longing for the sounds of the battlefield. Might
hang on to the vellums, who knows, perhaps a museum might place some
value on the antiquities
1:43 PM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: reduction size (was Pesky Page Turns)
I often wondered what happened to Cameo too man, that was a
long time ago. I still have my electric eraser sitting hard by me,
like an old soldier longing for the sounds of the battlefield. Might
If memory serves, was there not a great pizza place on Hollywood and
Vine, wherein the waiters all sang operatic arias?
Dean
On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Joel Sears wrote:
Hi Bob,
As I remember, you got to Cameo from the alley, on the second floor,
just south of Hollywood, on Vine. I don't
In the past I used to use 100% page scale of Finale's default 85% system
scaling for parts, but recently I've been using 90% page scale, which even
to this aging string player's eyes is quite easy to read. I use a music
spacing scaling factor of 1.4 for parts (1.6179 for scores). My parts are
This makes me remember a place called Miceli's, but it's at Cahuenga and Lankershim. All the waiters and waitresses sang opera, and did it very well. The food was excellent as well. ***J D ThomasThomaStudiosWest Linn OR 97068[EMAIL
Now my memory is jogged! We are talking about the same original
company. Cameo's name was changed to Alpheus about 1973-4, and a couple
of years later Judy Green left Alpheus to form Judy Green Music.
Alpheus does not appear to exist any longer, but Judy Green does indeed
still exist at:
On 19 Feb 2006 at 12:21, Chuck Israels wrote:
There are times that I think reducing the staff size and increasing
the amount of white space around staves and other objects actually
might make the music more legible.
I'm presently struggling with a chronic eye problem (uveitis) that at
of Chuck Israels
Sent: Sun 19-Feb-06 15:21
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] Re: reduction size (was Pesky Page Turns)
I've been thinking about this lately. I've been using a 95% staff
size reduction on large (9.5 x 12.5) parts paper, and it's more
than readable at a considerable distance
On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 19 Feb 2006 at 12:21, Chuck Israels wrote:
There are times that I think reducing the staff size and increasing
the amount of white space around staves and other objects actually
might make the music more legible.
I'm presently
This discussion reminds me of playing a Schubert Symphony from
Bärenreiter parts recently, and getting very annoyed about their
illegible accidentals. Especially flats and naturals look very alike
from the normal reading distance in a violin section. We wrote a lot of
them on top, especially
Hi Jim,
(Yes, I will get to listen to your CD - probably today or tomorrow -
sorry!)
On Feb 19, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Williams, Jim wrote:
Hi, Chuck!
I was looking at this issue just today and got some guidelines from
the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA)
*There should be
Williams, Jim wrote:
*60- or 70-lb offset paper, printed both sides.
snippage
PS: WHERE DO YOU GET THE PARTS PAPER???
A paper vendor that services the printing trade should have this in
stock. Major cities have several. If you check the website of offset
printing manufacturers (four
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