In general, David is right that the MS operating systems have been
remarkably backward compatible and this has been a real positive quality
with Finale files. However, a year or two ago, I had a font problem and
tried to install to install my old copy of Fontographer — in its day
(frozen
David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible
Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast
MS in the role of good guy here, but I don't know of any software
for DOS/Windows that postdates the introduction of the IBM PC that
cannot
On 28 May 2010 at 22:41, Daniel Wolf wrote:
In general, David is right that the MS operating systems have been
remarkably backward compatible and this has been a real positive
quality with Finale files. However, a year or two ago, I had a font
problem and tried to install to install my
On 28 May 2010 at 16:35, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible
Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast
MS in the role of good guy here, but I don't know of any software
for DOS/Windows
Yeah, I'm with him!!
On 27/05/2010, at 11:35 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 May 2010 at 20:15, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out
again? Less confusion, I say.
I'm against writing out conventional forms because it can obscure the
Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You don't play outdoor concerts where breezes make limiting
the number of pages open for any one piece a good thing, do you?
Da Capo and D.S. should provide no more
dershem wrote:
[snip]
There are always arguments on either side. Use what works best and
causes the fewest potential problems.
[snip]
Well, if you're going to think logically . . . ;-)
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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dhbailey wrote:
Imagine what sort of nightmares musicologists in the 30th century will
have trying to decipher how those lead-sheets would have been performed!
Thanks to the technology of sound recordings, I expect that
musicologists of the 30th century will have less trouble understanding
At 8:31 PM -0700 5/26/10, dershem wrote:
On 5/26/2010 7:55 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List
At 7:12 AM -0500 5/27/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Imagine what sort of nightmares musicologists in the 30th century will
have trying to decipher how those lead-sheets would have been performed!
Thanks to the technology of sound recordings, I
expect that musicologists of the
On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote:
And computer music
files made 15 years ago can no longer be accessed
and used by any modern computers as OSs evolve.
Is this really true on Windows?
I am surprised at the way Apple has handled OS X versioning. So far
as I can tell, if you break
Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs a fresh copy
of Windows 98 to reboot. I have all the data copied to Windows, and the program
bombs after a few moves.
ajr
David W. Fenton lists.fin...@dfenton.com wrote:
On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote:
And
On 27 May 2010 at 16:11, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs a
fresh copy of Windows 98 to reboot. I have all the data copied to
Windows, and the program bombs after a few moves.
Have you tried copying the files to a newer computer,
Finding a working copy of Windows 98 has been the biggest problem--the only one
I found bombs on any computer that is not a Dell.
ajr
David W. Fenton lists.fin...@dfenton.com wrote:
On 27 May 2010 at 16:11, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a
On 27 May 2010 at 17:34, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
Finding a working copy of Windows 98 has been the biggest problem--the
only one I found bombs on any computer that is not a Dell.
That's *very* odd, as the Dell OS disks are not tied to the hardware
at all.
I don't have any Win98
At 7:59 AM +0200 5/26/10, dc wrote:
Thanks, John.
This is a soprano clef (C1) - a French violin clef would have the
piece starting on a major seventh.
Oops! The clef squiggle looked like a stylized G, so I didn't
check the notes. Mea culpa!
John
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Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
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On 26 May 2010 at 20:15, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out
again? Less confusion, I say.
I'm against writing out conventional forms because it can obscure the
form. If you're playing and having to ask is this exactly the same
as the
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List (who
does mostly jazz) would absolutely agree. But back in the day when
every
On 5/26/2010 7:55 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List (who
does mostly jazz) would absolutely
On 25 May 2010 at 20:47, dc wrote:
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
The fermatas at the end of the first section are the standard way of
indicating the Fine of the Da
On 25 May 2010 at 22:12, dc wrote:
David W. Fenton écrit:
On 25 May 2010 at 20:47, dc wrote:
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
The fermatas at the end of
On 25 May 2010 at 22:25, dc wrote:
David W. Fenton écrit:
OK, I get it now. I hadn't actually looked at the *music* to realize
this is not a standard rounded binary menuet. The menuet itself has
to be played AABBAA, which is indicated by the lower Da Capo at the
end. That it ends at the end
At 8:47 PM +0200 5/25/10, dc wrote:
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
The fermatas at the end of the first section are the standard way of
indicating the Fine of the Da capo.
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