Re: [Finale] Trombone clef in early music

2004-05-15 Thread Eden - Lawrence D.
On Fri, 14 May 2004, David H. Bailey wrote: This raises a totally tangential issue -- why aren't more clefs taught in music lessons at an earlier point? Why is it only those who seem destined for collegiate music study who ever are taught about clefs? As a public school instrumental music

[Finale] Finale 2k and Big Band

2004-05-15 Thread JOlson8590
I'm using it on Big Band files, no problems at all. Faster entries, easy switch of any stave from transposition to Concert Pitch and back, much faster printing. I have not tried Unicode for lyrics yet. Jean ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] No more redraw interrupt, even on WinFin04

2004-05-15 Thread Javier Ruiz
Oh yeah! My GAS levels are extremely high also. (I have a friend who´s offering me a 2x2ghz at 2400 euros and I am about to say yes..). Thank God there is no MAC OS X version of Tetris therefore I have to keep my old G4. LOL, Javier. The only good thing about all of this is it's forcing me to

[Finale] Re: Trombone clef in early music

2004-05-15 Thread Michael Simpson
Query: What about modern music? If I write a trombone part in alto clef, will it be tacitly understood that it is an alto trombone part? ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Re: Clefs

2004-05-15 Thread Michael Simpson
This raises a totally tangential issue -- why aren't more clefs taught in music lessons at an earlier point? Why is it only those who seem destined for collegiate music study who ever are taught about clefs? Question for you, David -- you play trombone, right? Most woodwinds only need to know

Re: [Finale] Re: Trombone clef in early music

2004-05-15 Thread Carl Dershem
Michael Simpson wrote: Query: What about modern music? If I write a trombone part in alto clef, will it be tacitly understood that it is an alto trombone part? If you want a part played on alto trombone, put that at the top. cd ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Trombone clef in early music

2004-05-15 Thread John Howell
At 9:13 PM +0200 5/14/04, d. collins wrote: John Howell écrit: Andrew is exactly right, and the use of alto, tenor and bass clefs for alto, tenor and bass trombones lasted through the end of the 19th century in orchestral music. A more pertinent question, however, might be what clefs to use

[Finale] Re: Trombone clef in early music

2004-05-15 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
Title: [Finale] Re: Trombone clef in early music Query: What about modern music? If I write a trombone part in alto clef, will it be tacitly understood that it is an alto trombone part? No. Alto clef for trombone parts is purely a historical convention, and these parts may be played on alto OR

[Finale] Graphical scores

2004-05-15 Thread Michael Good
Dennis, I really don't think you want to jump ship to Sibelius, for two major reasons: 1) The copy protection on Sibelius is similar to that for Finale 2004 - in some ways more liberal, in some ways less, but more similar than not. 2) Sibelius is less feature-rich for your music than Finale is.

[Finale] Re: Unicode Symbols and Finale

2004-05-15 Thread Michael Good
Hi Jörg, Weldon, and David, Thanks for this discussion. I've been meaning to get this working here and this finally gave me the impetus to do it. Cut and paste works - as does typing directly - if you set up a Windows keyboard for the language you're using. I've tested this on Windows XP with