Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
It occurs to me, too, that Sibelius, in order to obtain the
competitive upgrade requires you to send them your MakeMusic!
distribution disk.
That's not how I read it. It says on Sibelius's web site:
You must provide proof of ownership of Finale, Encore, or Mosaic
William Roberts quoted the Sibelius website
You must provide proof of ownership of Finale, Encore, or Mosaic by mailing the
first and second pages of your table of contents in your user manual or send us your
original program CD.
in response to my comment
It occurs to me, too, that Sibelius, in
Hey, what gives?
FinMac2005a
In 3/4 time, I have a one-bar first ending with a dotted halfnote B
tied from the previous bar. The second ending is the same. But when I
enter a backwards tie on the SECOND ending B, I get TWO ties, one
half-tie as I expect, but also another complete tie attaching
ER @ HOME wrote:
Hello,
I'm soliciting advice and input regarding making the BIG Switch from
FinMAC 2002/'03 to Sibelius 3.1 (OS X). I'm an expert user of Finale (up and
running since the infamous US$1000.00 version 1.0) and am able to work
very quickly and efficiently in FinMAC 2002/Mac OS 9.2.2.
David W. Fenton wrote:
Did this post go through?
If so, can anyone tell me why they have nothing to say in response?
Am I the only person on the list trying to combine files using clip
file copying?
I think I recall having received it -- I don't use clip files so I had
nothing to say.
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Here is what you do:
First set up your first and second ending. The trick will only work in a
second ending, so this has to be set up first.
Then, select the Speedy tool, and option-click on the second ending
measure. In the dialog which then appears select the check box Tie End
(near the
Hello,
I'm soliciting advice and input regarding making the BIG Switch from
FinMAC 2002/'03 to Sibelius 3.1 (OS X). I'm an expert user of Finale
(up and
running since the infamous US$1000.00 version 1.0) and am able to work
very quickly and efficiently in FinMAC 2002/Mac OS 9.2.2.
Eric,
I still
Noel wrote:
and I would say in my defense that since I did not begin with
Finale until 2k, I do not even have a user's manual from which to
provide a first or second page.
You didn't get a little tutorial book with your copy of Finale? My first
version of Finale was 2002, and that
You will find no increase in working speed by using Sibelius over
Finale in OS X. In reality, it will be slower and far more frustating
especially if you are an ex
Absolutely! If you don't want to do something they way it wants to do it, then
be prepared to simply compramise your final output
At 10:47 PM -0400 4/26/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Jacki,
I hate to the bearer of bad news, but both examples in your snapshot
are wrong.
- Darcy
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
I have to agree with Darcy 100%, Jacki. Example 1 looks like a
student's first attempt to notate rhythms taken
On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, John Abram wrote:
Does anyone use Engraver font besides me?
I use it as my default font. I find it by far the most attractive and
legible of all the music fonts available today.
I'm on Fin Mac 2004 OS X.3.9
At most zoom levels, sharp signs look awful - Does anyone
Thanks a bunch, everyone, for the bad news! I'd rather know what's wrong
than continue to notate incorrectly! I just feel so rusty on all this -
it was over 20 years ago that I was in college as a composition major, and
I'm really just now getting back into serious notating! So I appreciate you
That's older practice. Modern practice is to beam it as you would
instrumental music, regardless of syllables. Use slurs to mark the
syllables, but beam to show the beats. There's nothing I hate more as a
singer than looking at a page of old music and seeing a mass of un-beamed
notes. Twelve
I'm using a couple of 19 CRT monitors in 1600*1200 these days, and have been
losing the mouse pointer a lot - usually when I return to the puter with a big
mug of tea and a couple of hot tea cakes (real butter of course). I remember
someone else mentioning this exact problem, and have found
Noel wrote:
and I would say in my defense that since I did not begin with
Finale until 2k, I do not even have a user's manual from which to
provide a first or second page.
Sure you do. Just print out the first two pages of the OLD. Voilà!
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
Hello to all members
I've just now read the messages about the Maestoso mailing occurred to
some of the members on this list.
I'm partially involved in the Maestoso project and can say that the web
and email servers are controlled by an external company which manages
hosting and mailing; the
Hi Jacki
If I can point out a couple things:
In the first measure, I believe you want a word
extension rather than a hyphen between of and my.
It should look like this:
In the si-lence of__ my sor-row
Fin2004 will do word extensions for you automatically
if you have that turned on in the
There are several different windows solutions, none of which would be
any good to you ;-)
Thankyou for that Phil, your solution would cost me many thousands in hardware
and software replacement, I was thiking of keeping it below $10 :)
Simon Troup
On 27 Apr 2005 at 9:25, William Roberts wrote:
Perhaps I'm just a pragmatist at heart and
not easily swayed by philosophy, but it seems to me that if a
third-party format is already supported by other applications (like
MusicXML is), so that no especial effort has to be entered into in
order
On 27 Apr 2005 at 12:17, Guy Hayden wrote:
Well, that's not the way it works. First the filters identify a
potential spam message. Then, for ease of identity it adds the word
SPAM to the subject line. I have my own options set to send anything
with the word SPAM into a special junk mail
On 27 Apr 2005, at 18:33, Simon Troup wrote:
There are several different windows solutions, none of which would be
any good to you ;-)
Thankyou for that Phil, your solution would cost me many thousands in
hardware and software replacement, I was thiking of keeping it below
$10 :)
Here's an
I'm very happy with Mouse Locator which is free and can be found here:
http://www.2point5fish.com/
Michael Cook
On 27 Apr 2005, at 19:05, Simon Troup wrote:
I'm using a couple of 19 CRT monitors in 1600*1200 these days, and
have been losing the mouse pointer a lot - usually when I return to
the
Simon Troup / 05.4.27 / 01:05 PM wrote:
I'm using a couple of 19 CRT monitors in 1600*1200 these days, and have
been losing the mouse pointer a lot
Check this out:
http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com
@#$*%
I know it is my problem.
All I asked was that if you were going to reply to the SPAM subject, please
change the subject line because otherwise I was going to have to move you
manually back to my allowed list.
I did not ask for nor do I not want any advice about how to configure my
Dear fountain of wisdom -
I'm sure this is in the manual somewhere, but I can't
find it -
For dual-staff keyboard instruments, does Finale
automatically assume that expression marks in one
staff affect the other, too? If so, can this be
turned off or on? Sometimes I want this (most of the
I made a bar with a line in Voice 1 where last eight ties to a note in the
next bar, then I created a line in voice 2 that counterpoints voice 1 but
also has the last eight which should tie itself to a note in the next bar.
I tried all ways but this tie in voice 2 goes backwards to the first
Jacki,
The beaming is now correct.
However, the music is still unnecessarily difficult to read because
your spacing is quite distorted. For instance, m.33 beat 2, it looks
like there is almost *more* space between the two sixteenth notes than
there is between the eighth note and the sixteenth
Jamin Hoffman wrote:
For dual-staff keyboard instruments, does Finale
automatically assume that expression marks in one
staff affect the other, too? If so, can this be
turned off or on? Sometimes I want this (most of the
time, I guess) but sometimes, I don't.
Expressions affects the MIDI channel
On 27 Apr 2005 , at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, John Abram wrote:
Does anyone use Engraver font besides me?
I use it as my default font. I find it by far the most attractive and
legible of all the music fonts available
http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/
Ah yeah ... that's the one I posted! :)
What's nice about this is that I don't feel so stupid now I've seen how many
solutions there are, it makes you feel completely dumb forgetting where the
pointer is.
Simon Troup
I am certain I am not the only user who is experiencing some
difficultly because other users do not wish to be considerate of a
simple and not unrealistic request.
Okay, without getting shirty, can you answer this one question just so I'm
clear.
Can you change the prefixing to something like
I mean, really. Are we
Am 27.04.2005 um 11:49 schrieb Simon Troup:
I am certain I am not the only user who is experiencing some
difficultly because other users do not wish to be considerate of a
simple and not unrealistic request.
Okay, without getting shirty, can you answer this one question just
I share the skepticism towards the value of ETF as an archiving format, as
compared with something like MusicXML.
ETF is nothing more than a text representation of the binary .mus file. The
only sense in which it is open is in the fact that it is text. The short
document that Makemusic
I mean, really. Are we
Sorry I don't follow. Are we what?
Simon Troup
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On Apr 26, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Guy Hayden wrote:
The anti-spam function on my ISP blocks any message with Spam in the
subject line.
Some programs (Norton Anti-Spam, for example) add a spamers address to
the users blocked senders list.
I have had to manually remove almost a dozen of you from my
Taris L Flashpaw wrote, with respect to the practice of beaming choral
or vocal music to syllables:
That's older practice. Modern practice is to beam it as you would
instrumental music, regardless of syllables.
but I would note that what Taris describes as Modern Practice is by no
means
Dennis suggested:
But it would be interesting to know which [music] font others prefer
and use (Finale music fonts or other).
I am with Andrew, and generally use Engraver as my default music font.
ns
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sorry, it didnt finish. Are we really this bored?
Am 27.04.2005 um 12:52 schrieb Simon Troup:
I mean, really. Are we
Sorry I don't follow. Are we what?
Simon Troup
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sorry, it didnt finish. Are we really this bored?
Am 27.04.2005 um 12:52 schrieb Simon Troup:
I mean, really. Are we
Sorry I don't follow. Are we what?
Simon Troup
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sorry, it didnt finish. Are we really this bored?
Quite a number of people on the list confirmed getting the email in question.
Personally I always try to stay vigilant about opt-out boxes but you can't
always be. I'm suspecting now that as not everyone on the list got the email
then perhaps
Friends,
While I knew some of what Robert Patterson wrote, about ~.ETF, I was
unaware of some of the details he provides, and factoring those into the
equation, I'll admit that it's something like the mini-spare tires
automakers in the U.S. currently provide as standard with most vehicles.
John Howell wrote:
The first printed polyphonic music shows up in the early 16th century,
1501 in Venice, to be exact. This was music printed from movable type,
which means that each piece of type had a single note shape or a single
rest shape on it. So beaming was physically impossible and
Owain Sutton wrote:
And my other point - Petrucci did use ligatures, although he made the
pragmatic decision to limit it to two-note ligatures. This was within
the reasonable bounds of the extra pieces of type necessary, whereas
three-note ligatures would entail hundreds of new pieces.
Oh,
On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Here is what you do:
First set up your first and second ending. The trick will only work in
a second ending, so this has to be set up first.
Then, select the Speedy tool, and option-click on the second ending
measure. In the dialog which then
On 27 Apr 2005 at 14:14, Guy Hayden wrote:
My sainted grandmother used to say, Profferd advice stinks!
Asking other people to change the subjects of their email messages to
fix a problem on your end seems self-centered to me.
You should complain to your ISP to see if they can fix it.
I know
On 27 Apr 2005 at 17:33, John Howell wrote:
The actual engraving of music--technical use of the term here,
meaning the use of a sharp steel engraving tool to write the music,
backwards, on a soft copper plate--dates from the 17th century, and
since the engraver was literally drawing the
At 11:38 PM +0100 4/27/05, Owain Sutton wrote:
John Howell wrote:
The first printed polyphonic music shows up in the early 16th
century, 1501 in Venice, to be exact. This was music printed from
movable type, which means that each piece of type had a single note
shape or a single rest shape on
On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:34 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Why are you limiting your discussion to printed music? Manuscript
music of the 17th and 18th centuries continues to use the practice
you seem to be arguing was created as a result of using movable type.
And now some computer-engraved music
On 27 Apr 2005 at 22:56, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:34 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Why are you limiting your discussion to printed music? Manuscript
music of the 17th and 18th centuries continues to use the practice
you seem to be arguing was created as a result of
Well, after using the Patterson Mass Copy plug-in, now when I select
the Clef tool, any time I click in a measure I get a bass clef 8ba
wherever I click.
I don't have any keys stuck on my keyboard and I don't know what I
could have done to make this happen.
It happens in any Finale file, not
On 27 Apr 2005 at 23:16, David W. Fenton wrote:
Well, after using the Patterson Mass Copy plug-in, now when I select
the Clef tool, any time I click in a measure I get a bass clef 8ba
wherever I click.
I don't have any keys stuck on my keyboard and I don't know what I
could have done to
I know that Sibelius has a lot of fans
but I am not one of them.
Does anyone want to buy it from me?
I sold mine on eBay for 300. They were happy to transfer the ownership.
Simon Troup
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