Cornets are actually enjoying a bit of a renaissance on the NYC jazz
scene. Dave Douglas, one of the most influential and critically
acclaimed trumpet players of the past ten years, has switched from
trumpet to cornet as his primary instrument. He was following in the
footsteps of a lot of
Hi All,
FinMac 2007c. I can't find where they moved the Show
Only On Screen command. It used to be in the Text
Menu. Please help!
Ryan
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Daniel Wolf wrote:
I have a general aesthetic question for people involved in bands. Is
there a rationale beyond the pedagogical for wanting band scores to meet
some prescribed contemporary and standardized instrumentation? Might
there not be some legitimate musical reasons for omitting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, as one who can be excessively finicky about which instrument plays
what, I swore a long time ago that the word band would never appear on
any of my title pages precisely because of its imprecise meaning. It's
interesting that MMB Music wrote Wind Ensemble on my
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
There is a great deal of continuity between Sousa's instrumentation
and that of contemporary bands,
[snip]
The band membership also included a female vocalist, a violinist, and
a harpist as soloists,
Heh, heh! My
Chuck Israels wrote:
I have a figure - two triplet 8ths on the downbeat of a 4/4 measure, and
every time I copy it vertically (haven't tried horizontal) it changes
the remaining rests from a quarter and a half to 2 8ths and a half.
What's up with that?
Sometimes in the past, changing the
MB wrote:
[snip] In 1992, Congress enacted a law that made renewal automatic for
works
published between 1964 and 1978. However, if a work was published
[snip]
This baffles me, since the 1978 rewrite of the U.S. Copyright law
automatically extended the term for works which were then in their
David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]
Am I misinterpreting the discussion here? Is my position basically
what all y'all were advocating? Or do even university-level and
professional bands seldom/never adapt their instrumentation to the
music they are playing?
I think you would find that the upper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very often in school bands there's an unspoken requirement that everyone
be playing most of the time to keep them occupied. When I wrote my first
wind ensemble piece my intent was NOT to write yet another John
Cacavas-type excursion into razzle-dazzle, I was roundly
Ryan Beard wrote:
Hi All,
FinMac 2007c. I can't find where they moved the Show
Only On Screen command. It used to be in the Text
Menu. Please help!
It's the Font Attributes -- Invisible. They took out the Show Only On
Screen option.
Amazing how they make this program easier isn't it?
--
I don't know yet--it's only been out a few weeks. The wind ensemble
marking was MMB's idea rather than mine. Would you like me ot send you a
promo-blurb, David?
Aaron J. Rabushka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://users.waymark.net/arabushk
- Original Message -
From: dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
On PC, they made CTRL-3 a view %, much to everyone's chagrin. You can use numpad 3 for now,
but MM seems to understand their mistake have promised to change it in the maint.
release.
From: dhbailey
Sent: Sat 25-Aug-07 8:08
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale has a mind of its
dhbailey wrote:
MB wrote:
[snip] In 1992, Congress enacted a law that made renewal automatic
for works
published between 1964 and 1978. However, if a work was published
[snip]
This baffles me, since the 1978 rewrite of the U.S. Copyright law
automatically extended the term for works which
Hi David,
Option and the tuplet definition number still works on the Mac side
in Speedy. I'd be surprised if it were missing on PCs. Alt and the
number?
Chuck
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:08 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Chuck Israels wrote:
I have a figure - two triplet 8ths on the downbeat of a
Hi, David.
The confusion was probably caused by my not putting quotation
marks around the material I was citing, though I said I was quoting
from an online text. What you refer to comes from those three
paragraphs quoted from a good summary article written by a lawyer at:
A tricky situation indeed. While on the topic, what Band publishers
are presently accepting submissions?
Dean
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:25 AM, dhbailey wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very often in school bands there's an unspoken requirement that
everyone
be playing most of the time to keep
Hmm, sort of a compromise between Flug and Tpt.
Dean
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:58 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Cornets are actually enjoying a bit of a renaissance on the NYC
jazz scene. Dave Douglas, one of the most influential and
critically acclaimed trumpet players of the past ten years,
At 10:56 PM -0400 8/24/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 24 Aug 2007 at 22:29, John Howell wrote:
Yes, I understand exactly what you're saying, and of course it's
possible to delete instruments from a given ensemble, but you'd have
to have a conductor who believes in doing so, and players who
On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:29 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Now, in college-level bands, surely the tenor sax majors and many of
the altos also double on soprano, so I don't see how that would be
incredibly difficult to come by one player for it
Any saxophonist worthy of the name can play every
On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
There are also national variations, as I found to my surprise when
presented with a piece scored for the standard Maltese band of
today, which is so different from the American one that I felt
compelled to add this note to the
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:29 PM, John Howell wrote:
It's considered prestigious to be the person selected to play the Eb
soprano. Same thing is true for the alto, bass, and lower clarinets.
When I was in bands (admittedly a long time ago now) it was definitely
*not* prestigious to play the
And some of the Czech folk bands I saw in Moravia were also interesting--I
don't know all of the ins and outs, but tenor tubas of some sort were always
there (no problems finding one for my recordings) along wih clarinets,
trumpets, tuba, slide trombones, and an occasional valve 'bone. When
On 25 Aug 2007 at 14:34, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
There are also national variations, as I found to my surprise when
presented with a piece scored for the standard Maltese band of
today, which is so different from the American one that
On Aug 25, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Hmm, sort of a compromise between Flug and Tpt.
That's the problem right there: there isn't enough space between those
two insts. to put in a third.
Actually, those proclaiming the death of the cornet are off by a
couple of
At 7:51 AM -0400 8/25/07, dhbailey wrote:
Sousa's band didn't march more than a couple of times. At least his
civilian band. The Marine Band marched, and the band he led in WWI
at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center marched, but his civilian
band mostly just played concerts.
Hey, they
At 8:25 AM -0400 8/25/07, dhbailey wrote:
It's a very tricky situation, and one that composers have always had
to navigate carefully. John Cacavas sold an awful lot of band
music. His arrangements have something for everyone and
doublings/cues for those situations when the originally
I have downloaded a public domain piece from the Composers Public
Domain Library:
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Sitivit_anima_mea_%
28Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina%29
I am not sure of the proper terminology, but the finale version
(1998) shows the Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass
Ryan Beard wrote:
Hi All,
FinMac 2007c. I can't find where they moved the
Show
Only On Screen command. It used to be in the Text
Menu. Please help!
It's the Font Attributes -- Invisible. They took out
the Show Only On
Screen option.
Amazing how they make this program easier isn't it?
At 2:40 PM -0400 8/25/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:29 PM, John Howell wrote:
It's considered prestigious to be the person selected to play the
Eb soprano. Same thing is true for the alto, bass, and lower
clarinets.
When I was in bands (admittedly a long time ago now) it
At 5:13 PM -0400 8/25/07, Stephen Ellis wrote:
I am not sure of the proper terminology, but the finale version
(1998) shows the Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clefs to the left of
the first staff system on Page One. I would like to remove that,
but since I don't know how it was added, I
You are absolutely correct on both counts. I am more interested in
the mechanics of how it was added to the score, and how it could be
removed. I was told how to remove it off-list (selection tool, click
on the object and press delete), so now my question has transformed
to how it could
--- John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is a perfectly ordinary Incipit, showing the
original clefs,
key signature and mensuration sign. That
information is important,
and I'm not sure why you want to delete it. I would
always include
that in any edition of mine, if I knew how
--- Stephen Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have downloaded a public domain piece from the
Composers Public
Domain Library:
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Sitivit_anima_mea_%
28Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina%29
I am not sure of the proper terminology, but the
finale version
At 8:25 PM -0400 8/25/07, Lora Crighton wrote:
I also include the range when I do an incipit - it is
especially useful to let me know if the altos will run
into trouble.
Very good point! Although if you know the original clefs, those
clefs were chosen in the first place to keep each part
Is there a third-party software that will actually allow you to scan
music and use it in Finale? Sees like I heard about one some time
ago for Windows (but not for Macs). Any thoughts?
Steve
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