David: That's the way I do it. I can hear it in my head. Sometimes I make changes later. That's the problem I have with Finale. It is so easy to make changes. That's the way I do it. I am not complaining about anyone's way of doing things. The important thing is to do realize the music the best way for you.
BF "David H. Bailey" wrote: > That's fine -- I suppose you never have to revise your scores after you > hear them? Never change the dynamics? Never decide to add a ritard > because it would sound nice, after you heard the piece without the ritard? > > I am very happy for everybody who pretends to be deaf like Beethoven > when they compose. I am not like that. I am not a Mozart. I can't > conceive of scores complete in my head and write them down perfectly so > I don't ever want to change a note. (Come to think of it, Mozart > couldn't do that either, I distinctly remember seeing some corrections > and revisions in some manuscript facsimiles.) > > Your teacher could have told me that all he/she wanted to and it still > wouldn't make me perfect in my composing, and never want to change a > note after hearing it performed. Heck, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, > Schubert, all the greats of the composing world went back and made > changes after hearing what worked and didn't work in concert. > > Why be so arrogant and proud about not wanting to hear it in your studio > BEFORE you put it in front of musicians? If that is your cup of tea, > and you can do it and never make any revisions, then God bless you and > good luck! > > I can't do it, and I don't feel I should have to notate the entire thing > in a notation program and not be able to hear things reasonably > represented, including dynamics. Why should I have to go to a different > program and then manually place the same dynamics I have already placed > in Finale? Why should I even have to go to a different window and muck > about with the midi tool, just to get crescendi to play back properly, > when I have entered them as I want them in the score already? > > The fact of the matter is that Finale CAN play those things back, as > long as I take a bit of extra time. I remember when word extensions > used to be like that and then Coda made them more automatic and easy to > work with. Are you suggesting that since they were already possible > that Coda shouldn't have wasted development dollars on improving their > implementation? I rarely enter music with lyrics, so to me development > money spent improving the lyrics tool or word extensions is wasted. > > But you don't see me complaining that Coda shouldn't be spending time on > improving that aspect, since I realize it is important to many Finale > users, even though it isn't important to me. > > Why do you take that attitude with improving the midi implementation > already in place in finale? Just because you don't use it is no reason > to assume that many others don't use it, too, and may even find it the > most helpful part of the program. > > But what the heck, maybe my new shipment of Prozac will arrive any > minute now and I won't care about anything. ;-) > > Bob Florence wrote: > > > I remember my teacher telling me: "You have to see with your ears and hear > > with your eyes". I don't use a piano or Finale's playback. Forgive me if I > > sound arrogant. I am in complete agreement with Harold Stienhardt. > > > > Bob Florence > > > > Harold Steinhardt wrote: > > > > > >>On Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:43 PM, David H. Bailey > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Finale is NOT just a page-layout program for engravers, it is also a > >>> > >>>tool used by arrangers and composers who want to hear how what they > >>> > >>are > >> > >>>working on sounds > >>> > >>> > >>If an arranger or a composer does not know what it will sound like > >>BEFORE notating it, then they do not know their art/craft very well. If > >>they don't already know what it will sound like, how do they > >>determine what to write in the first place? > >> > >>Finale: The Art Of Music Notation. > >> > >>Harold > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Finale mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > > > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
