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Re: [Finale] Hey! Where did the edit system margins box go?

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Cook
I can see the edit system margins box, but I note the following behaviour: when I choose it in the menu, it flashes briefly at what is presumably a default position before appearing where I had placed it the last time I used it. So a possible explanation of your problem is that this box

Re: [Finale] Hey! Where did the edit system margins box go?

2006-06-09 Thread Randolph Peters
Michael Cook wrote: I can see the edit system margins box, but I note the following behaviour: when I choose it in the menu, it flashes briefly at what is presumably a default position before appearing where I had placed it the last time I used it. So a possible explanation of your problem is

Re: [Finale] Hey! Where did the edit system margins box go?

2006-06-09 Thread Randolph Peters
Michael Cook wrote: I can see the edit system margins box, but I note the following behaviour: when I choose it in the menu, it flashes briefly at what is presumably a default position before appearing where I had placed it the last time I used it. So a possible explanation of your problem is

[Finale] Hey! Where did the edit system margins box go?

2006-06-08 Thread Randolph Peters
I'm on FinMac 2k6c and I just discovered that in the Page Layout Tool, the edit system margins box does not appear. Rather there is a brief flash on the screen, but the box is nowhere to be seen. There is no problem with the edit page margins box. Can anyone else confirm this bug? Thanks.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-10 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 08.07.2005 um 08:57 schrieb Andrew Stiller: the still-small set of musicians who can play a quintuplet accurately in the first place. You can't be serious. Chopin requires them! I understand the point he's trying to make. Accurate execution of a quintuplet is rather tricky. Chopin may

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:50 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: And my bet is that Chopin didn't play his quintuplets with all 5 notes having exactly the same length. That is in contrast to what I understand many of today's composers to be asking for. No, he didn't want them equal. But he didn't want

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I think you'll find that "Q=80" only means anything to Americans. It means nothing in Europe. Lawrence "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg"http://lawrenceyates.co.ukDulcian Wind Quintet: http://dulcianwind.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread dhbailey
Owain Sutton wrote: [snip] Why is it inapproptiate to give decimal-point metronome marks which will be ignored, but perfectly appropriate to state Q=80 and see it equally ignored? (Although I'm not necessarily stating that this is the reason Ferneyhough uses these metronome markings.)

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 7, 2005, at 6:00 PM, M. Perticone wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: and I would put a bracketed 3 tuplet over the first group, and the same over the second group (even though there are only TWO notes in it) for clarity. while i certainly agree with your post i think that tuplets are

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Neal Schermerhorn wrote: Owain Sutton wrote: (7/10, 13/20) Why? It's easily playable, and it's something that cannot possibly be notated another way, unlike x/12. And, like it or not, it's found its way into mainstream notation and publication. I've never seen

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread John Howell
At 5:39 PM -0400 7/7/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: In Broadcast Standard American, w and wh are pronounced identically, and the phoneme [hw] simply does not exist. I'm not sure whether you are referring to a reference book, or just to general practice. I do know that I grew up having been

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.07.2005 um 11:12 schrieb Christopher Smith: Let's say you were honking along happily in 4/4, mixing eighths, sixteenths, and eighth-note-triplets freely, as those young kids today are wont to do. Then suddenly, you just want 3 eighth notes in a bar. Great, a bar of 3/8 (or 1/Q. ) and

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Owain Sutton
James E. Bailey wrote: Okay, so perhaps I'm dim, or simply not understanding, but would not a simple metric modulation of previous quarter=new dotted quarter in 5/8 effect the desired rhythm? Yes. But no such easy indication is possible for any metre beyond x/12 - and if there's

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 8, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: Neal Schermerhorn wrote: ...e 13 notes to the bar all equal to a quintuplet division of a quarter. Basically 2 sets of 5 sixteenths with a 5 under them, and 3 extra. Am I close? Spot on Time for a reality check. There are other ways to notate

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread James Bailey
Am 08.07.2005 um 08:57 schrieb Andrew Stiller: the still-small set of musicians who can play a quintuplet accurately in the first place. You can't be serious. Chopin requires them! I understand the point he's trying to make. Accurate execution of a quintuplet is rather tricky. Chopin may

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Owain Sutton
Andrew Stiller wrote: Time for a reality check. There are other ways to notate such complex rhythmic proportions, some of them much more intuitive to play. Check out Ben Johnston's /Knocking Piece/, wh. was published in /Source/ #2 (1967) and recorded at least once. There are no meter

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 10:21, Christopher Smith wrote: My trick was (for 4 sixteenths, a quintuplet, and a quarter note) to say out loud TEE-ry tee-ry MATH-e-ma-ti-cal TAH. My nine year old can do it (I tested it out on him.) Hmm. You pronounce

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 21:18, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 10:21, Christopher Smith wrote: My trick was (for 4 sixteenths, a quintuplet, and a quarter note) to say out loud TEE-ry tee-ry MATH-e-ma-ti-cal TAH. My nine year old

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread dhbailey
Richard Yates wrote: What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg That's a joke, right? I am sure that it will turn up in Finale2007 if enough people ask for it. Apparently only if those people who ask for it aren't currently Finale users -- many

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Richard Yates
What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg I make that a 3/32 note. Maybe we should drop all of this fraction nonsense, join the rest of the world, and go with the metric system. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
Richard Yates wrote: What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg I make that a 3/32 note. Maybe we should drop all of this fraction nonsense, join the rest of the world, and go with the metric system. I'm trying to learn a Ferneyhough piece at

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread dhbailey
Owain Sutton wrote: Richard Yates wrote: What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg I make that a 3/32 note. Maybe we should drop all of this fraction nonsense, join the rest of the world, and go with the metric system. I'm trying to learn

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread John Howell
At 11:51 AM -0600 7/6/05, John Abram wrote: A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used in new music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe) Henry Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking. Why is 12/12 not like 12/8? Because 12/8 is

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
John Howell wrote: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If it sounds like triplets, it's triplets. Except if it's not grouped in threes. Feel free to invent your own notation; just don't expect us old fogey traditionalists to read it. We're not inventing it - we're nearly a

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread John Howell
At 8:27 PM -0600 7/6/05, John Abram wrote: On 6-Jul-05, at 5:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're really splitting hairs here -- putting 3 evenly spaced notes within one beat sounds like triplets to me, no matter how it's represented in the time signature. Yes it sounds the same, like

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:08 PM 7/7/05 -0400, John Howell wrote: Poor example, I'm afraid, and one that suggests you are not a singer. Which, whoa, and other wh words like where properly start with a phoneme produced by a puff of air blown through pursed lips. Witch, and woe and ware do not. The pronunciation is

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Richard Yates wrote: What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg I make that a 3/32 note. Maybe we should drop all of this fraction nonsense, join the rest of the world, and go with the metric system. You've been

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread richard.bartkus
Putting the mechanics aside for a moment, could someone please explain what you can do with 12/12 that you CANNOT do using standard meters, or combinations thereof ? There must be a good cause to write something that most accomplished musicians may have difficulty sight reading because of some

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread John Howell
At 5:45 PM +0100 7/7/05, Owain Sutton wrote: John Howell wrote: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If it sounds like triplets, it's triplets. Except if it's not grouped in threes. In which case it doesn't sound like triplets! Feel free to invent your own notation; just don't expect

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Jim
07, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12? Putting the mechanics aside for a moment, could someone please explain what you can do with 12/12 that you CANNOT do using standard meters, or combinations thereof ? There must be a good cause to write something

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I once readan article on the subject of the "modern composer's" love affair with making life as difficult as possible for the performer. The article ended with an example. The rythms were amazingle complex and the example looked someone had spilt a bag of sharps and flats over the page.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting the mechanics aside for a moment, could someone please explain what you can do with 12/12 that you CANNOT do using standard meters, or combinations thereof ? Not so much 12/12, but say 5/12. Let's say you were honking along

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting the mechanics aside for a moment, could someone please explain what you can do with 12/12 that you CANNOT do using standard meters, or combinations thereof ? Turning again to Ferneyhough: A passage of four bars, with the following time signatures:

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread John Abram
On 7-Jul-05, at 11:00 AM, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used in new music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe) Henry Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking. Why is 12/12 not like

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 07 Jul 2005, at 2:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: But then later, you are playing some triplets which work out perfectly, but you ONLY NEED FIVE OF THEM, not six. If you needed 6, then a bar of 2/4 with triplets marked normally would be great. But if you want a new downbeat after you've only

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 07 Jul 2005, at 2:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: But then later, you are playing some triplets which work out perfectly, but you ONLY NEED FIVE OF THEM, not six. If you needed 6, then a bar of 2/4 with triplets marked normally would be great. But

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A sincere thank you for the resposes to my question. My humble opinion still stands, that using an esoteric meter such as anything/12 will return an uncertain performance. *Can* result in it, not *will* result. PS - What is the notation for a twelth note ? If

Re: Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread richard.bartkus
: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A sincere thank you for the resposes to my question. My humble opinion still stands, that using an esoteric meter such as anything/12 will return an uncertain performance. *Can* result

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Owain for your response. If I understand your correction of will to can correctly, you agree that it can return an uncertain result. Okay, I can accept that. Yep - and so can any notation ;) ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 7, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 07 Jul 2005, at 2:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: But then later, you are playing some triplets which work out perfectly, but you ONLY NEED FIVE OF THEM, not six. If you needed 6, then a bar of 2/4 with triplets marked normally would be

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jul 2005 at 12:37, John Howell wrote: Seems to me that talking about beats compounds (sorry!) the confusion. Yes, 12/8 can indicate 4 beats per bar; that's sort of the default interpretation. At a slower tempo, however, it can indicate 12 beats per bar. I've conducted Bach slow

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread dhbailey
Owain Sutton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Owain for your response. If I understand your correction of will to can correctly, you agree that it can return an uncertain result. Okay, I can accept that. Yep - and so can any notation ;) Now there's no need to bring hemiolas

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Gerald Berg
Richard As Creston sez: It looks exactly the same but what it looks like is a 'transposition' in that a 1/6 note looks exactly like a 1 quarter note in a quarter note triplet. In 6/6 the tuplet bracket would still be applied. Either way this kind of rhythm will entail explication. The

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread richard.bartkus
Owain Sutton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Owain for your response. If I understand your correction of will to can correctly, you agree that it can return an uncertain result. Okay, I can accept that. Yep - and so can any notation ;) And I can agree with that statement

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:08 PM, John Howell wrote: Which, whoa, and other wh words like where properly start with a phoneme produced by a puff of air blown through pursed lips. Witch, and woe and ware do not. The pronunciation is often confused by young children, rap artists, and some speakers

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jul 2005 at 13:08, John Howell wrote: At 8:27 PM -0600 7/6/05, John Abram wrote: On 6-Jul-05, at 5:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're really splitting hairs here -- putting 3 evenly spaced notes within one beat sounds like triplets to me, no matter how it's represented in the time

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Next year, metric clocks! ...which you can see, BTW, on the walls in Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jul 2005 at 14:04, John Howell wrote: But the purpose of notation is, and always has been, communication. I simply do not choose to learn or perform music that requires me to learn new notation, unless the music itself is so great that the effort is worth while. That's an odd

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread M. Perticone
Christopher Smith wrote: and I would put a bracketed 3 tuplet over the first group, and the same over the second group (even though there are only TWO notes in it) for clarity. while i certainly agree with your post i think that tuplets are redundant here, as the /12 is meaning that already.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:52 PM 7/7/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: Notation and musical style should be intimately linked. I agree with you in all respects, from early music to new music. And, in case I haven't mentioned it, I highly recommend the brand new SoundVisions by Moeller/Shim/Staebler. It's a worthy

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
Gerald Berg wrote: As for 7/10 or 13/20 -- there's a fraction too far. Why? It's easily playable, and it's something that cannot possibly be notated another way, unlike x/12. And, like it or not, it's found its way into mainstream notation and publication.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I respect the opposing point of view, I am not convinced that 12/12 is required. I agree that 12/12 is unnecessary - for the same reason as 8/8 is hardly ever used. However, 7/12, 5/10 etc have a distinct function that cannot be substitued with a 'normal'

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: I think the use of a note as denominator would eliminate all these problems. 6/8 would become 2/Q., and would also allow one to notate 6/E if one actually wanted it. I would love this system...but That makes far more sense than the absolutely idiotic 12/12.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jul 2005 at 23:36, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I think the use of a note as denominator would eliminate all these problems. 6/8 would become 2/Q., and would also allow one to notate 6/E if one actually wanted it. I would love this system...but That makes

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Jul 2005 at 23:36, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I think the use of a note as denominator would eliminate all these problems. 6/8 would become 2/Q., and would also allow one to notate 6/E if one actually wanted it. I would love this

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 0:34, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Jul 2005 at 23:36, Owain Sutton wrote: I think it's the rare performer who ever manages precisely what is indicated. Is that a valid argument for not indicating it at all? I don't think it is. It's not an

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 0:34, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Jul 2005 at 23:36, Owain Sutton wrote: I think it's the rare performer who ever manages precisely what is indicated. Is that a valid argument for not indicating it at all? I don't think

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Richard Yates
I'm with you here. And I think Ferneyhough would be, too. But that approach makes a mockery of 2-decimal-point precision. Well, yeah. That's the point. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 1:05, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 0:34, Owain Sutton wrote: Of course, I'm something of a heretic in the early music world for ignoring the relationships between meters there, too. I think it's better to take a precise relationship as a

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Neal Schermerhorn
Owain Sutton wrote: (7/10, 13/20) Why? It's easily playable, and it's something that cannot possibly be notated another way, unlike x/12. And, like it or not, it's found its way into mainstream notation and publication. I've never seen it. If I bought a piece of music and I saw 13/20 I

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-07 Thread Owain Sutton
Neal Schermerhorn wrote: Owain Sutton wrote: (7/10, 13/20) Why? It's easily playable, and it's something that cannot possibly be notated another way, unlike x/12. And, like it or not, it's found its way into mainstream notation and publication. I've never seen it. If I bought a piece

[Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Gerald Berg
Unfortunately (but really I mean fortunately) I am away a lot for the next month (and previous days) -- so I am (and will be) missing some discussion points. I believe Andrew and David said 12/12 was not the answer but did not say why. But Creston has a valid point ( and a logical

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Jul 2005 at 9:59, Gerald Berg wrote: Unfortunately (but really I mean fortunately) I am away a lot for the next month (and previous days) -- so I am (and will be) missing some discussion points. I believe Andrew and David said 12/12 was not the answer but did not say why. 12/12

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
I believe Andrew and David said 12/12 was not the answer but did not say why. But Creston has a valid point ( and a logical solution) so I feel duty bound to ask for clear arguments as to why it is unsatisfactory. Really, it is elegant and straight-forward albeit (most likely) doomed. 12/8

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread John Abram
I believe Andrew and David said 12/12 was not the answer but did not say why. But Creston has a valid point ( and a logical solution) so I feel duty bound to ask for clear arguments as to why it is unsatisfactory. Really, it is elegant and straight-forward albeit (most likely) doomed.

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread dhbailey
John Abram wrote: A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used in new music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe) Henry Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking. Why is 12/12 not like 12/8? Because 12/8 is not triplets. Yes, I

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Owain Sutton
dhbailey wrote: John Abram wrote: A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used in new music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe) Henry Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking. Why is 12/12 not like 12/8? Because 12/8 is

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Yates
What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Owain Sutton
Richard Yates wrote: What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg That's a joke, right? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Yates
What does a 12th-note look like? http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg That's a joke, right? I am sure that it will turn up in Finale2007 if enough people ask for it. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread John Abram
On 6-Jul-05, at 5:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Abram wrote: A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used in new music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe) Henry Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking. Why is

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-06 Thread Gerald Berg
Thanks all and thank you Owain -- this is simplication towards clarification not a complication. I'll repeat Creston's bit You have your 4/4 measure a.) the pulse is the quarter note. b.) primary units at the eight -- 8/8 c.) extrametrical units are at the triplet -- 12/12 This 12/12 is what