[I'm resending this to the list because the previous attempt seems not to want to deliver, possibly because it was sent to fin...@lists.shsu.edu instead of fin...@shsu.edu]
On 4 Feb 2009 at 14:44, Howey, Henry wrote: > I just got it to work;-) > > I had tried to place it as a note expression; however, I did get it to > work as an articulation'-) That, of course, raises another question (why doesn't it work as an expression?), but I'm glad you got it working. I'm working with old versions of Finale (and files that started life in Finale 2.1), so I have never had automatic placement of expressions, so would never have contemplated anything but using an articulation. I fear that the future of Finale is to completely eliminate any distinction between articulations and expressions, and I think that would be a huge mistake. First off, for playback definition, it would require the addition of a "this note only/starting with this note" option, or complete reliance on Human Playback to give you what you wanted. Secondly, I think it's a useful conceptual distinction. Without it, I don't think I ever would have noticed that in Viennese music from the 1790s to the 1820s "f" is used both as a dynamic marking (i.e., like an expression, takes effect where it's placed and continues on) and as an accent (i.e., an articulation that applies only to the note it's attached to). Here's an example from the piece where I first discovered it: http://dfenton.com/Midi/index.php?stem=Eberl18&last=4¤t=3&mvt=3 Now, of course, now that I know this, I could easily put it in appropriately distinguishing dynamic markings (which apply from where they are placed) from accents (which apply to the note to which they are attached), but it was the process of thinking about distinguishing the two in performance (as opposed to just graphically placing symbols on the page) and the process in Finale that was necessary to implement that distinction that brought me to an important realization about music notation in the period. Sure, I could have figured it out, but I think it's a distinction that has great musical use, even if the two classes of objects to overlap to a great degree in terms of implementation of the UI for placing them. But I'm certain I'll lose this argument in the long run. :( -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
