[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-03 Thread demery
In a message dated 1/2/10 7:47:39 AM, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes: Historical tablature used headless notes, but this made it difficult when music required notes of longer duration than semibreve. I have always loved the delicious irony that the note with the

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-03 Thread demery
in white mensural notation the longest note is a Maxima, followed by a Longa, Brevis, Semibrevis, Minima, Semiminima, Fusa and Semifusa. true. And, the Mx rest is seen more often than the note; as the rest is commonly displayed at the beginning of a piece to explain the composers intentions

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-03 Thread peterd26
I frequently burned the midnight oil transcribing facsimiles from Apel's book for a graduate notation seminar. (The clausula on page 229 proved particularly tricky.) My comment about the modern use of the word semibreve was not intended to get us into a discussion of early

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-02 Thread demery
But the movement I started working on tonight is in 3/2. The others staves say 3/2 Historical tablature used headless notes, but this made it difficult when music required notes of longer duration than semibreve. Some printers had symbols for breve, a circle on the stem or a left-going

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-02 Thread peterd26
In a message dated 1/2/10 7:47:39 AM, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes: Historical tablature used headless notes, but this made it difficult when music required notes of longer duration than semibreve. I have always loved the delicious irony that the note with the longest

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-02 Thread Monica Hall
- Original Message - From: peter...@aol.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:47 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finale tab question In a message dated 1/2/10 7:47:39 AM, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes: Historical tablature used headless notes, but this made

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2010-01-02 Thread David Tayler
into use... Monica - Original Message - From: peter...@aol.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:47 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finale tab question In a message dated 1/2/10 7:47:39 AM, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes: Historical tablature used headless notes

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread Jelma van Amersfoort
Dear all, I'd be interested too in how to do this. I have a lot of baroque opera editing ahead and need to create basic lute parts for lute amateurs. So maybe reply to the list? Thanks, Jelma van Amersfoort On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Suzanne and Wayne angevin...@att.net wrote: Are

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread Hilbert Jörg
I'd be interested too in how to do this Me too. Jörg To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread G. D. Rossi
Well, one very simple way to do it - if you don't need playback to check - is to enter the ledger lines, letters, and/or numbers as text. If you do this in Scroll View, they will stay locked in position to the staff. If you do it in Page View, they lock to the page position, so take note

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread David van Ooijen
Dag Jelma (leer ze continuo spelen, dat is beter voor iedereen, ook voor jou :-) et al. What Doc wrote seems like a simple, quick way. This is what I wrote to Suzanne off-list, it looks like the opposite. The attachement is not included as the list does not allow it. Finale is great software for

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, G. D. Rossi ceth...@gmail.com wrote: Well, one very simple way to do it - if you don't need playback to check - is to enter the ledger lines, letters, and/or numbers as text. If you do this in Scroll View, they will stay locked in position to the staff. If you

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread Ed Durbrow
Gail Gillispie was the expert with tab in Finale. That was years ago that she helped me with it. I mad one piece with it but was not sufficiently masochistic to keep using Finale though. On Dec 30, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Jelma van Amersfoort wrote: Are there any users of Finale for

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread Suzanne and Wayne
David, Thanks for this help! I haven't had much time to work on it today, but did try some of these things and it seems they will work. I couldn't view your file however, as I'm still on 2008 and your file must be newer. That's ok. I upgraded to 2008 when I got a new

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2009-12-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Suzanne and Wayne angevin...@att.net wrote:    One more immediate question for you though.  It seems as though the rhythm notation above the tablature lines is hard coded in some ways.  I don't find a way to move it up or down, for example, which would be a nice

[LUTE] Re: Finale tab question

2005-11-13 Thread corun
Hi Sal, Sal Salvaggio wrote: I'm using Finale and was wondering if anyone out there knows how to change the auto tab function from numbers to letters for french tab style - I seemed to have done it before - but I forgot what I did - Using the Staff Tool, click on the staff to open up the