> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith > Sent: 13 June 2007 17:52 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Help With Crazy Double Stops Re-Write > > > > On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I've received a Finale 2007 file of a score for string > quintet written > > by a composer who didn't understand the double-stop limitations of > > string players. When he found out that what he wrote > wouldn't work, he > > asked me if I could "fix" it. (Don't ask! At least it's work) > > > > Consequently I have five staves with five 5/4 measures of > minor second > > 16th notes that are unplayable as written. I need to > re-write them so > > the players can play them and the composer can still have his > > sound. I'm > > thinking I need to reassign notes so that each instrument has > > between a > > minor third and a minor seventh for each 16th. > > > > I don't want to sit down and do it manually if I can get Finale to > > help > > me so I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to handle > something like this > > using FinMac2007 tools. I'm afraid it's going to be a manual job, > > though. > > > > You don't mean DIFFERENT pitches on each sixteenth, do you? So a > density of ten pitches total, changing on each sixteenth? I'm afraid > he's in for a big disappointment. The only possible way that > would be > playable with five instruments is if one of the pitches for each > instrument was on an adjacent, open string. There might be > some extra > trickiness that a violinist would know about, involving alternating > fingers, that might help him out, but you have to REALLY know the > instrument for that.
Yes, any chance of seeing the actual passage, because there's all sorts of tricks and workarounds which can apply in specific situations. (It's rather like using Finale. Heh heh.) And you're right that on a violin or viola, a minor second in itself is no issue at all (provided it's not down below the D or G string respectively). Owain _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
