Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2009-07-27 Thread terry cano
I'm confused...are some using two scores one with linked parts and another (copy/diferent named) without? Terry ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 27.07.2009 Robert Patterson wrote: It really is too bad, because this is pretty close to being really good. Personally, I think it is already really good. (I am talking about having parts in one file and score in another.) Compared to the old extracted parts it is light years better. It

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 27.07.2009 terry cano wrote: I'm confused...are some using two scores one with linked parts and another (copy/diferent named) without? Terry Actually, there is no reason why you cannot have linked parts in the score file, so what I do is this: I often start working on the parts while I

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2009-07-27 Thread dhbailey
terry cano wrote: I'm confused...are some using two scores one with linked parts and another (copy/diferent named) without? Terry Essentially, yes. One of the copies of the file is used to create a perfect layout for the score, which often results in ugly parts. The other copy is used

Re: [Finale] Finale 2010

2009-07-27 Thread David Stonestreet
I hope Finale really is amazing 100 years from now! :-) On 27/07/2009, at 12:58 AM , Ray Horton wrote: I was having some problems with Finale Windows 2110 and playback. Right now I have none, either from Garritan or midi, and have returned to 2009b until I get some time to mess with 2110

Re: [Finale] Finale 2010

2009-07-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'd be happy if they were still in business 5 years from now... On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM, David Stonestreetda...@stonestreet.com.au wrote: I hope Finale really is amazing 100 years from now!   :-) On 27/07/2009, at 12:58 AM , Ray Horton wrote: I was having some problems with

[Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Colin Broom
I figure there's a lot of epxerienced strong players and orchestrators out there, and I've read some very good advice here before, so here goes: Can anyone tell me (as much as it is possible to describe something like this) on an orchestral string instrument what effect applying the mute has

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Patterson
In my experience, neither conductors nor string players like the combination very much. It makes the harmonic sound very tentative, and I think it is harder to produce. I called for this combination once, and the conductor asked me to let them remove the mutes. But I liked the effect and asked

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Owain Sutton
Yes, many players will react with distaste at the possibility - but then again, many pretty much avoid ever playing a true sul pont, too. For an example, I'm fairly sure the end of the Nocturne from the Britten op. 6 suite, featuring both natural and artificial harmonics, is muted. (My music

RE: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Colin Broom
Just to clarify, this would be in the context of a string quartet, not an orchestral context. Thanks for the responses thus far. C. -- Colin Broom -- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:24:57 +0100 From: owainsut...@gmail.com To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Owain Sutton
Also to clarify, if I've been misunderstood, that Britten piece is for violin piano Colin Broom wrote: Just to clarify, this would be in the context of a string quartet, not an orchestral context. Thanks for the responses thus far. C. -- Colin Broom -- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009

[Finale] staff list doesn't work

2009-07-27 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr .
This happens all the time, and I could never figured out what is wrong. I have a score for 4 instruments: cavaquinho, guitar, bass and piano, in that order. I want the S (segno) and coda signs to appear only at the top instrument and top piano staff, in the score, and in all parts. So I mark,

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread John Howell
At 3:54 PM +0100 7/27/09, Colin Broom wrote: I figure there's a lot of epxerienced strong players and orchestrators out there, and I've read some very good advice here before, so here goes: Can anyone tell me (as much as it is possible to describe something like this) on an orchestral string

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread David Froom
Colin, Take a listen to Webern's Op. 5 String Quartet, 4th movement. Here is a pdf of the score at the IMSLP: http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP00370-Webern_-_Five_movements_for_String_Quartet_Op5.pdf The whole movement is mit Dämpfer four all four. There is a harmonic in the

[Finale] Re: Unicode support in Finale--impending upgrade of ChordSymbol font

2009-07-27 Thread JClevESM
Greetings, list. I've been out of the Finale world for awhile, but now that I'm upgrading my ChordSymbol font, I'm wondering what the status of Unicode support is. I see that it is not supported in Finale 2010. Will it be added for Finale 2011? If a support rep or product manager wishes to

Re: [Finale] Re: Unicode support in Finale--impending upgrade of ChordSymbol font

2009-07-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi John, 1) Nobody from MakeMusic monitors this list. You will have to send your message to them directly. 2) Speaking on behalf of commercial music arrangers, I hope you won't be offended if I offer you some unsolicited advice: if your chord symbol fonts are set in a serif font like

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2009-07-27 Thread John Howell
At 11:31 AM +0200 7/27/09, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Likewise. I actually think it will never be perfect, and there will probably be one or two reasons to use separate part files even if they fix the ones you listed. Personally I don't want much time invested into these problems any more. What

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread arabushk
Not to mention those string players who wouldn't play pizzicato for Monteverdi since they considered it a bastardization of the instrument! ajr At 3:54 PM +0100 7/27/09, Colin Broom wrote: I figure there's a lot of epxerienced strong players and orchestrators out there, and I've read some very

Re: [Finale] OT: con sord + harmonics

2009-07-27 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Isn't it strange the way the mind (at least, mine) works. Until I read this post, at age 69, my brain had never connected Sul Pont with say, Ponte Vecchio. Oh, duh ... I says, I was in Venice decades ago, and never processed the Italian word for Bridge until today. So, thanks to you guys

Re: [Finale] Finale 2010

2009-07-27 Thread Allen Fisher
What do you know that the ROW doesn't? On Jul 27, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'd be happy if they were still in business 5 years from now... On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM, David Stonestreetda...@stonestreet.com.au wrote: I hope Finale really is amazing 100 years from