Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:35 PM 12/4/2003, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 04 Dec 2003, at 08:29 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 6:26 PM -0500 12/03/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds

[Finale] Another nail in the arts coffin

2003-12-04 Thread mbanner
Time Warner Cable has just dealt a serious blow to those of us who live and work away from a metropolitan area and want to stay connected to civilization. For those, like myself, who live in the Hudson Valley of New York State, north of New York City, we depend on cable not only for basic telev

Re: [Finale] Spacing of overlapping layers

2003-12-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 06:05 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: In order to make this legible, I've been going into Speedy and manually moving the noteheads on the odd-numbered quavers away from each other. Is there some automatic spacing thing I'm missing? I've used Special Tools to rectify t

[Finale] Replace Rhythms

2003-12-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, Is there some easy way -- via plugin or otherwise -- to tell Finale to find all instances of rhythm X (say dotted half tied to eighth + eighth) and replace them with rhythm Y (double-dotted half + eighth)? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:06 PM 12/4/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: >Perhaps if you simply placed one of your parts into a different layer, >then selected SHOW ACTIVE LAYER ONLY in the View menu, and simply used >mass mover to copy the parts yourself you would end up with exactly what >you want -- 2 separate trumpet par

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Raymond Horton
Tape, shmape. Trumpet soloist Sergei Nakarjakov puts some amazing circular breathing in fast passages in his performances of his transcription of the Mendelssohn D Minor Violin Concerto. He did it with us last year, and has recorded it. In his performance, during extended slurred rapid 16th note

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:35 PM -0500 12/04/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hmm... I always expected that circular breathing would be easier on a digeridoo -- maybe because the bore is so much wider than a brass mouthpiece? Anyway, my friend Josh Sinton, a great multi-woodwind player, first learned to circular breathe

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread David H. Bailey
Perhaps if you simply placed one of your parts into a different layer, then selected SHOW ACTIVE LAYER ONLY in the View menu, and simply used mass mover to copy the parts yourself you would end up with exactly what you want -- 2 separate trumpet parts on one staff. Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 04 Dec 2003, at 08:29 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 6:26 PM -0500 12/03/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds, my impression is that it is considerably more d

Re: [Finale] Group Names

2003-12-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Remove Optimisation, perform your group name edit, then re-optimise. Now all systems will have the edit. This wouldn't make much sense if the Optimisation has been utilized (e.g. staves had been moved on individual systems)

[Finale] Re: [Olist] Flutes and Recorders (long, but not as long as some!)

2003-12-04 Thread Harold Owen
John.Howell: The Weimar cantatas like No. 106 are a problem all their own because of the the difference in pitch standards between the court organ and the court's woodwinds. When I performed this, I transposed it a whole step higher, from Eb to F, and used recorders. Andrew Stiller: When I played

Re: [Finale] Group Names

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 11:22 AM -0500 12/04/03, Phil Lehman wrote: I was working on a project this week and I wanted to remove the group staff names from the score for printing. Document set up with setup wizard. Finale 2003 - Mac. Problem when I unchecked display group name it only did it for the first system. I h

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds, my impression is that it is considerably more difficult to do on brass instruments, especially trumpet. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard anyone circ

[Finale] Re: [Olist] Flutes and Recorders (long, but not as long as some!)

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
John.Howell: The Weimar cantatas like No. 106 are a problem all their own because of the the difference in pitch standards between the court organ and the court's woodwinds. When I performed this, I transposed it a whole step higher, from Eb to F, and used recorders. When I played it, we used tenor

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: the last note my first trumpet is playing is very long one. about 50 seconds long, for which he will need the circular breathing >> technique. What I would do is this: after the first fermata: "circular breathing!" I was under

Re: [Finale] Group Names

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:22 AM 12/4/2003, Phil Lehman wrote: >Problem when I unchecked display group name it only did it for the >first system. I had to go through the piece and remove the name for >each system. Is there a global way to do this? I did this is both page >view and scroll view. There is a plugin called

[Finale] Group Names

2003-12-04 Thread Phil Lehman
I was working on a project this week and I wanted to remove the group staff names from the score for printing. Document set up with setup wizard. Finale 2003 - Mac. Problem when I unchecked display group name it only did it for the first system. I had to go through the piece and remove the name

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Bettina Crimmins
Although it's now a long way away from the original question - circular breathing can be learnt with a bit of patience and practice, just like any other technique on a wind or brass instrument. Although it's also an entertaining party trick there's nothing magical to it - the tongue and soft palate

[Finale] Aligning repeat signs with Time

2003-12-04 Thread Ole Buck
From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can insert a short measure (messes up measure numbers and playback but you can make the layout look proper) just before the measure you want to look like there is a repeat to. Make it something like 1/8 or shorter, set the time signature to alwa

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Patterson
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Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:37 AM 12/4/2003, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >Save it under a >new name (I add "Parts" to the name) and then run Tobias Geisen's TG Tools >plugin "Smart Distribution of Multipart Staves." You don't need to tell me about the virtues of TGTools -- it's the first place I turn for any problem I

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Patterson
Implode and Explode Music are essentially useless because they always requantize the music. This is a long-standing problem about which I have bitterly complained for many years (since v1.0.) You are correct that this is a prime consideration for a plugin. (Lightbulb going off in head.)

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
Title: Re: [Finale] Combining staves At 8:22 AM -0500 12/04/03, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, I've got two trumpet staves which I'm combining into one Tpt 1/2 staff. When the two parts are written in such a way that what I want is layer 1/layer 2, the process of moving things around is very easy.

[Finale] [TAN] Music printing services

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions for music printing and reproduction services. I know that some of my local copy and printing shops may be able to do these things, but I'm interested also in shops that specialize in music. I need a place that can make parts on 9x12 heavy off-white stock, fol

[Finale] Spacing of overlapping layers

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, http://files.aaron.sherber.com/overlap.gif shows a kind of problem I've been having lately. In order to make this legible, I've been going into Speedy and manually moving the noteheads on the odd-numbered quavers away from each other. Is there some automatic spacing thing I'm missing?

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:26 AM 12/4/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: >In the quantization settings you need to look at the Soften Syncopations >setting (I think you have to click the More Options button to get to >this screen). If it's checked, then uncheck it. If it's unchecked, >then it should be checked. I can neve

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:24 AM 12/4/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: >So unless the liner notes state specifically that Marsalis did it with >circular breathing, or you have seen him perform that work in public and >actually saw him use circular breathing, I would remain skeptical about it. When the recording came out (1

Re: [Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread David H. Bailey
In the quantization settings you need to look at the Soften Syncopations setting (I think you have to click the More Options button to get to this screen). If it's checked, then uncheck it. If it's unchecked, then it should be checked. I can never remember which setting does what, but I do k

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 6:26 PM -0500 12/03/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds, my impression is that it is considerably more difficult to do on brass instruments, especially trumpet.

[Finale] Combining staves

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I've got two trumpet staves which I'm combining into one Tpt 1/2 staff. When the two parts are written in such a way that what I want is layer 1/layer 2, the process of moving things around is very easy. But when the two parts are, for example, moving jointly in thirds, I have not yet

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread David H. Bailey
There was an interesting exchange regarding circular breathing between Robert J. Lurtsema and James Galway concerning Galway's recording of a perpetual motion work (can't remember if it was Paganini's, but the specific work isn't important.) Robert J. was recounting to Galway how he had aired t

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
Darcy James Argue wrote: > I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I > know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds, > my impression is that it is considerably more difficult to do on brass > instruments, especially trumpet. In fact, I don't thi

Re: [Finale] An early Christmas gift

2003-12-04 Thread David H. Bailey
Keith, You don't get it to play -- it's a PDF file, not a finale file. Just an electronic representation of a printed piece of music, not a real file full of computer instructions to make sounds from. And it is a wonderful Christmas gift, thanks, Hal! David Bailey helgesen wrote: Thanks Har

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread David H. Bailey
And if it's written for a specific individual, he/she won't need to be told when to circular breathe -- that will be done as needed, dictated by the phrasing on the page. Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who a