[Finale] Chord Symbol Transposition
Hello Group, I just entered the chord symbols for a long piece and then realized that I'd forgotten to enter the key signature. Of course when I did, the chord symbols changed to reflect the new key. I'm afraid the answer is that I'll have to re-enter the chord symbols, but I wanted to ask here first in case I'm wrong. **Leigh ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord Symbol Transposition
Forgot to say FinMac2007! On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Leigh Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Group, I just entered the chord symbols for a long piece and then realized that I'd forgotten to enter the key signature. Of course when I did, the chord symbols changed to reflect the new key. I'm afraid the answer is that I'll have to re-enter the chord symbols, but I wanted to ask here first in case I'm wrong. **Leigh ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord Symbol Transposition
Good news! Mass EditChange...Chord assignmentsTranspose will do what you need. Select the area first, obviously. BTW, anyone using Chromatic Transposition (no key sig on transposed parts) with chord symbols will have to manually transpose the chords on the transposed staves using this method, as Finale does not do it automatically as it should. Complain loudly and often to MakeMusic about this, please. You're welcome! Christopher On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello Group, I just entered the chord symbols for a long piece and then realized that I'd forgotten to enter the key signature. Of course when I did, the chord symbols changed to reflect the new key. I'm afraid the answer is that I'll have to re-enter the chord symbols, but I wanted to ask here first in case I'm wrong. **Leigh ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re(2): [Finale] Chord Symbol Transposition
Yay! Thanks, Christopher! I love this list! **Leigh On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good news! Mass EditChange...Chord assignmentsTranspose will do what you need. Select the area first, obviously. BTW, anyone using Chromatic Transposition (no key sig on transposed parts) with chord symbols will have to manually transpose the chords on the transposed staves using this method, as Finale does not do it automatically as it should. Complain loudly and often to MakeMusic about this, please. You're welcome! ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord symbol transposition bug still not fixed in Finale 2006
Chuck Israels / 2005/08/03 / 03:33 PM wrote: Why do you need to do this? What's the advantage of chromatic transposition over key signature transposition? Is this something you do when you want both score and parts to be non key related - no key signature on either? I can certainly understand uses for this. Yes. You use it wherever a transposing instrument must appear without a key signature, notably in non-tonal works and in earlier trp. and hn. parts. Also good for pre-20th c. timp. parts, wh. also use no key sig. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord symbol transposition bug still not fixed in Finale 2006
Chuck Israels / 2005/08/03 / 03:33 PM wrote: Why do you need to do this? What's the advantage of chromatic transposition over key signature transposition? Is this something you do when you want both score and parts to be non key related - no key signature on either? I can certainly understand uses for this. I am in the same situation. I never write something that keysig applies, and do not want transposition to puts keysig :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord symbol transposition bug still not fixed in Finale 2006
On 03 Aug 2005, at 3:33 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: 6) Now, using the Staff Tool, double-click the staff. This launches the Staff Attributes dialog box. Click the Select box next to Transposition. Change the transposition method from Key Signature to Chromatic. Why do you need to do this? What's the advantage of chromatic transposition over key signature transposition? Is this something you do when you want both score and parts to be non key related - no key signature on either? Yes. Most of the time, my music isn't strictly in a traditional key, so I don't write key signatures, ever. Lots of contemporary writers (Maria Schneider, John Hollenbeck, Jim McNeely, etc) avoid key signatures even when their stuff is mostly tonal. Sibelius has a key signature -- separate from C major/A minor -- called Open Key/Atonal -- which does the same thing as setting all staves to Chromatic Transposition in Finale, with two big advantages: 1) Chord symbols transpose correctly. 2) It's a one-step process to change an entire score from Key Signature transposition to Chromatic transposition. There is no way to do this in Finale except by changing the transposition settings for each staff individually, which is incredibly tedious. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Chord symbol transposition bug still not fixed in Finale 2006
Hello Finale gang, I'm asking a favor. Could everyone I've helped with GPO stuff (or any other notation issue) please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], quote my original message, and tell them that you, too, would like this Chord symbol transposition bug fixed? Thanks very much, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
