Re: [Finale] Fermata or Not

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
angular--but no 3-dot fermata, sorry. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

2004-04-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled I have received the following communication from the Drug Policy Alliance, wh. may be of interest to US Finale listers: Congress is considering legislation that would hold bands, DJs, bartenders, promoters, venue owners, radio stations and others liable if

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

2004-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
the remaining two Qs, make one with with 2 quarter-notes in the space of 5 16th notes. Everything will now be properly spaced and will play back correctly. The numbers and brackets you want have to be put in graphically, but that is easy enough to do. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press ht

Re: [Finale] Italian

2004-03-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
e il fin di chi fa mal Mozart asks the singers to sing "-o e il" on a single note. The note is a long one, but you will never hear a singer divide it in three; rather, it usually comes out "Quest' e 'l fin" or "Questw'il fin" -- Andrew Stille

[Finale] [Olist] Re: Fumeth

2004-03-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
Near makes me want to start up a weekly cartoon, "Rhymes with Fum'th" Karl Henning, PhD doom'th loom'th zoom'th boom'th loom'th room'th [with a new roome-mate this yeare] inhum'th exhum'th assum'th presum'th consum'th... -

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Clearly there are words in which the foreign-derived plural has become well-established in English (eg, "theses"). mdl I have always enjoyed thinking that a box of kleenex contains numerous kleenices. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
ement forms are still not regular, but invariant, like "sheep": phenomena, bacteria, data, criteria, media all used as both singular and plural. Whether, like "agenda," they then take the next step to form the regular plurals phenomenas, bacterias, datas, criterias, medias

Re: [Finale] Instrumentation Description Criteria

2004-03-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: Re: [Finale] Instrumentation Description Criteria I'm updating a database which contains instrumentation description and got to decide the most suitable criteria (regarding the linguistic aspect) for instrument's composite names. Which, between the following, would you find most correct:

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rimshot

2004-02-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
ionally speaking) - aside from somewhat elaborate verbal instructions? Jerry Berg The choice betw. A and B should be left to the player, and should be pretty clear from context. C is not a rim shot--because there is no "shot." The instruction for it is "on the rim." -

Re: [Finale] [OT] Re: Horns and intonation

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
isite of office than a real musical necessity. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Horns and signatures

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
umpet, key sigs. for the timpani are almost never found pre-1900. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Horns and signatures

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
throughout his career routinely wrote atonal--even serial--music as if it were in C major--that is, with key sigs for the transposing instruments. His horn parts therefore all have one sharp. Could be worse: pity the EbCl. or alto sax! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Hyphen under rest?

2004-02-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
This is extremely rare. Asking a singer to cut off a word in the middle of it is not anything I've ever seen in any music. ... Liudas It's commonplace in Mediaeval music, and not all that rare in operatic melismata. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

[Finale] [Olist] Re: Original vs. derivative.

2004-02-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
ys do not count as originals, then Beethoven doesn't either--in fact, nobody does, because artistic creation does not exist in a historical vacuum. I do agree that Mozart was less path-breaking than other composers of similar stature. -- Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] C-flat/C-sharp

2004-02-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
ssage in A# major--of course, it's not in the key sig.! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: binding oversize pages

2004-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
; _The Kairn of Koridwen_ was made using Kallisti Music Press's comb-bound parts and score, and I defy anyone to hear so much as a whisper of page noise in the result. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

[Finale] TAN: best new music

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
The older I get, the more out of touch I feel with recent musical developments, and I don't like that. As a remedy, I'd like to ask the list, especially those of you w. large recording collections, what you consider to be the top 20 available CDs of works composed in the last 30 years by compos

Re: [Finale] Vibraphone in one or two staves?

2004-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
This reflects the fact that English organs were built w.o pedals until well into the 19th century--and of course many of these older organs remain(ed?) in use for a long time. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Vibraphone in one or two staves?

2004-02-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
. case two staves). All other keybd. insts. get two. Javier Ruiz. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Rest in 6/2

2004-02-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
ackward. I once had occasion to write a couple of measures of 3 / 1/2 time (three very slow double-whole-note beats), and I went right ahead and did it, because it's what the sense of the music demanded. I can't imagine re-metering something like that merely because it's unor

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On 06 Feb 2004, at 02:12 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: 68: It is impossible to have two brackets of the same type in different horizontal positions, as for example when a divided string section uses extra staves. Sibelius forces you to use their "subsidiary bracket" (actually a desk br

[Finale] [Olist] Re: Notation (a bit long) Reply

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
very nicely offer to re-edit the material--for an appropriate fee in 4 figures. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
68: It is impossible to have two brackets of the same type in different horizontal positions, as for example when a divided string section uses extra staves. Sibelius forces you to use their "subsidiary bracket" (actually a desk bracket) for this purpose even in places where it is inappropriate

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP2610

2004-01-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
cartridges for it, and someone will be glad to take it from you in return for one. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Is the same Sfp and Sfzp?

2004-01-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
day include at least some dynamic information in these "abbreviations," and I have merely taken this to its logical conclusion. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Quickeys import from OS 9 to 10 a NOGO

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
ss enthusiastic by the minute. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FinMac2004/Panther font question

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
If you have a font editor for OS X it's actually very easy to do this yourself, I have to do this for some of my own fonts as well. Johannes -- Any recommendations for one? Is there an upgrade for Fontographer? -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kal

RE: [Finale] OT: ad lib

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
e piccolo "obbligato" in "The Stars and Stripes Forever" which is in fact optional (though no-one dares omit it these days--so the non-obbligato obbligato has become an obbligato obbligato). -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Henle Font?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
re though--life isn't *that* absurd! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
If I encountered this neologism I would take it to include all of jazz, world music, roots music, and anything else not sold on the ground floor of the record store. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press RECORD STORE? LOL! I haven't seen a record store in years! You mean like &

Re: [Finale] Stem direction

2004-01-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
very sensible. I would add only: when in doubt, point the stem down. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

2004-01-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
y "nonpop" as your meta-genre. Some sub-genres can be partly in both pop and nonpop (some significantly, such as jazz, film, and religious music). If I encountered this neologism I would take it to include all of jazz, world music, roots music, and anything else not sold on the ground

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
America! Philip Aker And the LOTR deluxe edition DVDs provide a crash course in New Zealand English, where it seems that the short E always comes out either ih or ee. Talk of "spicial iffeects" and the like ticks some gitting used to. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
a young lady of Worcester Who ucester crow like a rorcester. She ucester climb Two trees at a time, But her Sicester ucester borcester. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
ision of two syllables within that word should be indicated by a ligature (curved line) above or below the affected syllables. In Finale, this can easily be entered as a smart-shape slur at high magnification. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
9 CDs that came with my computer! So, yeah, I need Disk Warrior now, and I'm in the process of getting it. My main mistake here has been that I thought the two halves of a dual-boot disk were insulated from each other, so that activity on one side would not affect anything on the other. S

[Finale] document platform translation

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
Can anybody tell me how to get Apple Works 6 to open a Windows MS Word document (postscript ".doc")? It ought to be able to, but I've never been able to get it to do so. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
ne of the problems I have encountered. Looming in front of me is a 400-page ballet score still in 2.6, the updating of which will take me, I estimate, about a week that I can ill spare for the task, but which I will have to do the next time anybody orders a copy. The number of files I have in pr

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
e next generation of Macs to abandon Classic altogether--which means that my current swivel-screen iMac is going to have to last a long, long, long time. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [E

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
gency, but the longer this goes on, the more of a problem it'll be. And I'm *not* looking forward to switching to OSX: I foresee endless hassles and expense getting it to work properly. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _

Re: [Finale] Grace notes & fingerings

2003-12-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
easier way to reduce articulations to 75% than duplicating them and changing the font size? Dennis 'Fraid not. Unless somebody knows something I don't know. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale ma

Re: [Finale] Grace notes & fingerings

2003-12-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
5% of full size (the grace-note itself being 50% the size of a regular note). This compromise, where the attached item is reduced, but not as much as the note itself, works nicely from a graphic standpoint, and is clearly legible to the player. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
er heard anyone circular breathe on trumpet. - Darcy I saw one of the jazz greats (Dizzy Gillespie?) do it on TV a few years back. Looked like he was gonna bust a gut, but you couldn't argue w. the results. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.

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

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
used tenor recorders, and it sounded very nice. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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!&q

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
e for any help and advice, best regards marcelo What I would do is this: after the first fermata: "circular breathing!" after the second: "poco a poco muta... in... +" if you've been using the plus sign to indicate the closed sound. If not, try "dampen mute poco... a.

Re: [Finale] Painting of musicians

2003-12-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: Re: [Finale] Painting of musicians Can you please help? I have a print of two musicians called " Murguistas" which was painted by D.Belgrano in the early 18 hundreds. I am unable to find out what the title of the print means. Can you enlighten me?   Many thanks... Margaret Ward

Re: [Finale] [OT] performance notes in proper english

2003-12-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
mpet 1 should remain among the other players until instructed to stand and step forward.) [+] Muted: Press fingertip against the near end of the indicated strings while depressing key normally. I might add that your original wording is perfectly acceptable--this is just a little more elegant, m

[Finale] RE: Heinrich Transciption Concerns

2003-11-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: RE: Heinrich Transciption Concerns  BTW, how is your eyesight holding up?! I developed a "floater" in my L eye as the result of the retina pulling away from the vitreous humor--wh. I'm told is a normal part of aging. Otherwise, my prescription hasn't changed in years. Wh. is a good thing

Re: [Finale] Splitting measures

2003-11-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
hould never, never do it. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: Cautionary accidentals in non-tonal music

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
nnecessary, but wasteful of space and an impediment to legibility. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] midi difficulties

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
ever record performance data, myself, so I tend to forget there might be some in a file I get from someone else. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailm

Re: [Finale] Tenor Clef for Cello

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
tenor clef, for whatever reason, just go ahead and do it. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] midi difficulties

2003-11-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
I've got a file here for 2 trp and 2 trb, created in FinWin 2k? and changed by me to FinMac 2K2. I'm trying to create a playback file, and am having difficulties. I've assigned each staff to a separate channel, using the appropriate General Midi timbre in each case. Playback from the score had

Re: [Finale] rests in 18/8

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
far from alone among composers in using this (IMO) extremely useful notation. George Crumb uses it routinely, for instance. I have found that I almost never have to explain it to performers, as the meaning is so very clear. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netco

Re: [Finale] Speedy Entry feature?

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
e/below existing notes, new notes are added at the cursor location. ... This goes back at least to Finale 2.0, probably back to the beginning. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] alto clef

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
y out of bounds, since no alto singer will be familiar with it or have any experience w. it. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Fwd: The 40 Great Lies of the Music Business

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
You'll get your cut tonight We'll supply someone for the door There'll be lots of maintenance guys when you get there You'll have plenty of time for a sound check My other horn is a Mark VI We'll definitely come to the gig You can depend on me -- Andrew Stille

Re: [Finale] Word cuts in Italian

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
mount on your wing. O grave, where's thy vic'try, O death where's thy sting? When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures were arranged in columns before me -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _

Re: [Finale] Optimizing the strings

2003-10-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
that one staff. The important thing is that whenever anything resembling a "string section" is playing, the set of staves should *look* like a string section. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale ma

Re: [Finale] Re: [Olist] Why Are Artists Poor? (book review--long)

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
; artists." [examples: the Salon des refuse's, the Armory show, the Society for Private Musical Performances] "Secondly, given the mystique of the arts, society in general does not approve of a formal regulation of numbers in the arts. (After all, regulations might prevent a

[Finale] Why Are Artists Poor? (book review--long)

2003-10-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
I just finished reading the book discussed below, wh. I think will be of interest to many list members. A modified version of this review will be posted at Amazon.com. Hans Abbing, _Why Are Artists Poor?: The Exceptional Economy of the Arts_. Amsterdam University Press 2002. ISBN 9053565655 An

Re: [Finale] Advice on Masters degree in composition

2003-10-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
a good track record of placing proteges in good positions. The short answer? Juilliard. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] nomail no work!

2003-10-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
I went on vacation this past week and set my Finale preferences to nomail. When I got back just now, I found 88 Finale messages waiting for me: the nomail setting had not in fact stopped the mail, though the appropriate radio button was checked at the list's web site. Howcome? _

Re: [Finale] Being prescriptive - but CAN the composer be wrong occasionally?

2003-10-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
music! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Glossary.

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
ing System Ten on the Macintosh. EVPU = Enigma Virtual Page Unit, 1/288 inch. This is a Finale term, and every user of the program ought to be familiar with it, even if they use metric or points or picas instead. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom

Re: [Finale] TAN: Extension ranges on ... Bass Clarinet

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
What came later was the idea that note names recurred in different octaves. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: Extension ranges on ... Bass Clarinet

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
s only 4 lines! Tuba players routinely read 5, and even the unextended bcl needs four for the occasional low D#. I just can't see this being an issue for any professional. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ F

Re: [Finale] Glisses and Accis (was: The Joys of Custom Lines)

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
main uses for Finale's ability to move accientals vertically. I have always adhered to the rule that glissando lines must contact the notehead (or at least come nearer to it than any other element) *and* must not collide with accidentals. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] TAN: Extension ranges on Barry Sax and Bass Clarinet

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
notes. However, players outside this specialized milieu almost never have these keys, AFAIK. I would recommend when in doubt, leave them out. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
. When challenged on this, he haughtily replied, "I make my cars to go, not to stop." -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
instrument(s) and piano, it is absolutely traditional to display all but the piano staves at reduced size. This is so the pianist can read easily from the full score. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

RE: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
dentical in appearance to the hyphen." What am I missing? Thank you, Steve Fiskum From: Andrew Stiller Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:17 AM The majority of Mac fonts have no true en-dash. Rather, the en-dash character (option-hyphen) is identical in appearance to the hyphen and is

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
fonts have no true en-dash. Rather, the en-dash character (option-hyphen) is identical in appearance to the hyphen and is in fact a hard hyphen. If you need hard hyphens in a piece, just choose a font with no true en-dash. They are numerous! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Musi

Re: [Finale] Re: Meet The Composer site

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
States to some list that Societies of this nature have access to, and it is a real request? I live in Philadelphia, and I've never heard of these people. Of course, they've probably never heard of me either, but still I'd proceed w. caution were I you. -- Andrew Sti

Re: [Finale] commissions

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
Another resource is Meet The Composer which has a recommended pricelist. I used that once years ago, and scared the commissioner away forever. I think their suggested fees are (or were) unrealistically high. So many things are variables though. Are they producing a commercial CD? Playing it 100

Re: [Finale] Charge for commission

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
he serve to the Japanese, asking them what they expect to have to pay. We'll see what happens next. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Notating Mallet Percussion

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
an octave lower than it sounds, so the written note would be the F below middle C. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] commissions

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Thanks to all who ansered my question. I note, alas, that no one was brave enough to suggest an actual number... ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
), wh., is pronounced SKSHIPtseh. Coach Krzyzewski's name is pronounced kshiZEFskee--at least, it would be in Poland. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.s

[Finale] commissions

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
A Japanese sax quartet is thinking of commissioning a work from me, and has asked the dreaded question "how much do you charge?" As usual, I haven't the faintest idea. For a 20-30 minute sax 4tet in several mvts from someone of my experience and recognition-level, what do folks think I ought to

Re: [Finale] having it both ways when transposing

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
s without, and still have the midi come out right. Thanks for any suggestions! In the Staff Assignment dialog, set the transposition to Chromatic, and check the Independent Key Sig. box. Then put the non-tonal passages in nominal C major. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
ay School Music Book No. 1_ (New York NY 1858), p. 17, at BR. _Happy Birthday_ also bears a similarity to _Good Night to You All_ in Asa Fitz, _The Exercise Song Book_ (Boston, 1858), p. 28, at BPL and JF. End of citation. Any questions? Translations of library sigla upon request. --

Re: [Finale] Plugin wish (another one for Tobias?)

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
) Delete the systems containing the original music. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Plugin wish (another one for Tobias?)

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
rmous headaches, in keeping them in one file. --Richard Keeping a volume of pieces in one file saves an enormous amount of time and effort when printing copies of the volume for sale and distribution. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netco

[Finale] examination copies

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
A question for publishers: What is your policy when a conductor asks for an examination copy of a score? a) require payment, as with anybody else. b) hand it over, but nag for its return or purchase after a month or two. c) hand it over, and hope that maybe you'll get it back someday, not too sh

Re: [Finale] Hairpins & Singlet

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
t;single curtal." He mangles the spelling, but it's clear enough what he's saying. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
nd if [EMAIL PROTECTED] does the trick for her, who can argue? -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] "I could care less" (was Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10)

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: Re: [Finale] "I could care less" (was Re: Finale Dige And that remark in turn does NOT beg the question, because the _expression_ does NOT mean "demanding that the question be asked." When did that start up? Christopher http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-beg1.htm

RE: [Finale] "I could care less" (was Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10)

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
mphrey? Dubya?) that it may well become an accepted pronunciation (much as AFfluent overtook afFLUent in the 1940s)--but it isn't, yet. My feeling is that it is most often used by those who have little call to speak such related words as nucleus and enucleation, which are much less often mispron

Re: [Finale] Sibelius: joining files

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
ing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
Title: [Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10 And it is beyond me how "I couldn't care less" has turned into "I could care less," completely reversing it's meaning while being used in the sense of the original _expression_.  End of Rant. Sorry, Chuck If you really want to know, check out

Re: [Finale] feature request

2003-09-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
ems/staves that required a higher degree of reduction would retain the same line thicknesses as the body of the score. Duh. The same goes for my subsidiary request for fixed dot sizes. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] Score Order

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
rs for whom the piece would be appropriate. Compare alto, f - f'' and soprano, c' - c'''. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] feature request

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
in requests to The Music Software Company Formerly Known as Coda. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] feature request

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I realize that this is an awkward time in Finale's development cycle to be making a feature request, but I need to do this while it is on my mind. In a recent exchange on the Finale online mailing list, the issue of small staff sizes (for pocket scores, large orchestras, etc.) came up. One t

[Finale] repeats

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
OK, how do I (in FinMac 2K2) put a cautionary key and time change into a measure when the following measure does not in fact change time or key? This comes up because a first ending requires these cautions (the measure to wh. it jumps has the new key and time), but the 2nd ending is unaffected.

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
yway: I can't find the CDs that came with the computer! -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript

2003-08-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
s "to make automatic"--which is *not* the same thing as "to automate." "Automatize" is also in my ink-and-paper American Heritage College Dictionary, 3d edition, similarly defined. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ __

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
all Mac Warehouse as soon as I get off line. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

  1   2   3   4   >