Re: [Finale] WAV To MP3 Converters

2005-07-01 Thread Richard Yates
MusicMatch JukeBox No way! That's a horrid program that I've seen pre-installed on a lot of Windows PCs. It takes over and won't let you control it. I use it only for converting files. I run it, use it, close it. No problems. What do you mean by 'take over'? Richard Yates

Re: [Finale] Re: half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread Gerald Berg
Unfortunately i could not down load the mp3 file David. Awfully naked score! i don't think I could resist mucking it up more if it were mine. The idea is very familiar to me... my music wouldn't exist without it. I do like the idea of using a bracket to delineate internal phrasing --

Re: [Finale] half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I have the score in front of me. He writes it as 6/8 (3/4) with the header Tempo di Huapango (fast). The beaming of the hemiolated (3/4) measures is inconsistent. Ack!!! Andrew! How can someone who is so particular about terminology get

[Finale] Wacky Theory Books I have Loved

2005-07-01 Thread Gerald Berg
This talk of Paul Creston has giving me a hankering for talking of further books. I admit to having had a Borgesian bent of mind before I really knew what it meant. For instance I've always preferred Hauer's vision of 12 tone over Schoenberg's. Persuing that line of thought is what

Re: [Finale] WAV To MP3 Converters

2005-07-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Jul 2005 at 4:57, Richard Yates wrote: MusicMatch JukeBox No way! That's a horrid program that I've seen pre-installed on a lot of Windows PCs. It takes over and won't let you control it. I use it only for converting files. I run it, use it, close it. No problems. What do you

Re: [Finale] half rests in 6/4? - back to the original question, please!

2005-07-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Jul 2005 at 11:19, Andrew Stiller wrote: [I wrote:] I *do* see a problem with calling something a hemiola that is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what a hemiola actually is. Of two examples given in the relevant _New Grove_ article, the second (from Lully) is of the type you call reverse

Re: [Finale] Paul Creston's 12/12

2005-07-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 7/1/2005 12:08 PM, Gerald Berg wrote: Just thought I'd re-title for those pursuing other gambits. Jerry On 1-Jul-05, at 11:38 AM, Gerald Berg wrote: Unfortunately i could not down load the mp3 file David. If you put around a URL, it will be less likely to be split up by a mail program:

Re: [Finale] Re: half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Jul 2005 at 12:28, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I'm puzzled by why one would want to rationalize 6/8 to 6/12, While I agree that 6/12 is a bad solution, that does not mean there is no problem. Composers for at least a century have found

RE: [Finale] Re: half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread Lee Actor
[snip] Some passages are simply insoluble, such as the lone 6/8 bar immediately before rehearsal G in the first mvt. of Hindemith's _Symphonische Metamorphosen_. The prevailing meter is 2/4; is the beat to be held constant through the 6/8 measure (compound meter), or the note values (simple

Re: [Finale] WAV To MP3 Converters

2005-07-01 Thread Technoid
On 7/1/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, iTunes is like that, too -- I am not going to use it for burning CDs, so I've turned off the system service it insists on installing. This means iTunes complains every time I start it that the CD burning service is not running so

Re: [Finale] Re: half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: I don't agree that it's problematic to indicate something like E = E when there's a change of time signature whose interpretation is ambiguous. The hard part is when it's something like Q = H, where it may be that the old quarter equals the new half, or the old half

Re: [Finale] Re: half rests in 6/4?

2005-07-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Jul 2005 at 23:02, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I don't agree that it's problematic to indicate something like E = E when there's a change of time signature whose interpretation is ambiguous. The hard part is when it's something like Q = H, where it may be that the

[Finale] Re: Open Recent...

2005-07-01 Thread Brian Williams
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Brian Williams wrote: Is there some way to clear out the Open Recent... list in the File menu of Finale 2005 (Mac) without trashing all of the global preference settings? Try selecting options program options advanced, and setting the value to zero. After

Re: [Finale] Wacky Theory Books I have Loved

2005-07-01 Thread Bruce Petherick
Gerald Berg wrote: The N(ew)D(iatonic)M(odal) Principle of Relative Music Forward by Joseph Yasser with an introduction by Nicolas Slonimsky A good friend of mine gave me that a year ago as he didn't understand it. I must say, after reading it a couple of times, I am not too sure the