I don't have this problem, unless:
at a low screen magnification the sharps on grace notes _do_ sort of appear
to be one vertical line, but if I view the screen at a higher magnification
they look fine. Would that be the problem to which you refer? If they
bother you, you could go into Options
I love FinWin2004b. I haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned
here (knocking on wood as I type), and love all the new features. With the
possible exception of the word extension plug-in I do miss occasionally, I
wouldn't dream of going back. So shoot me.
RH
- Original Message
I agree that it could/should be more accessible, but realize that many of us
keyboard-deprived souls WANT the tempo slower when we use Hyperscribe.
Ray Horton
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From: Wiz-of-Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:53 AM
Subject: Re:
(Sorry for accidentally double clicking and sending a blank reply earlier.)
So, as long as I am being the doofus here, again, I'll go the second mile:
How DOES one hide the Message Bar? Are we talking about the little strip
across the bottom that describes the tools functions as you select
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From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: [Finale] Hide Message Bar
This tip might be especially relevant for people using FinMac2004 and
trying to eke out productivity gains wherever they
Nonsense.
The more info, the better, especially, when it comes to dynamics. There's
no more time-wasting question than Should I have a dynamic marking here?
Ray Horton
Louisville Orchestra
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From: Colin Broom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday,
I find the latest 2004 Windows update to be considerably slower in one
area - Human Playback. It takes quite a long time to compile the entire
file every time, even after a very minor change to the file.
Raymond Horton
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It works differently in the update that came out a few days ago.
RH
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From: Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Finale 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] WinFin 2004 speed issues
On 09.03.2004 20:28 Uhr, Raymond Horton
Tim Cates:
what I was taught in an orchestration class was that the interlocked
parts had more to do with the physics of having the close harmony in
the player sitting next to you
There's something to that. In fact, Berlioz recommended (speaking of
valveless horns, of course) that
Many pro horn players prefer the original parts to transposed (F) parts.
They want to see what the composer wrote.
Ray Horton,
Louisville Orchestra
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From: Taris L Flashpaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:13 AM
Subject: Re:
The example I gave: may have been slightly extreme - Bb minor (concert
pitch). Both horn players had 12 bars rest, first entrance was a fortissimo
written C, Db, both missed the Db.
All the other times I've used horn key signatures I had no problems.
I suppose I overreacted when I swore off
I always agreed with you, but horn players generally don't, and the
experience I mentioned was enough to make me give up on it. It's just not
worth it. The horn players rationale is something along the line of: they
play a horn in two keys (occasionally 3 keys) and read parts transposed in
12
Matthew Hindson wrote:
Also on horns, when helping a friend the other day we found that if you
enter notes using Simple Entry tool in a transposing score, the
application
thinks you're entering sounding pitch and subsequently transposes them up
a
fifth or whatever, whereas if you enter them
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Raymond Horton wrote:
And, of course, Finale REALLY SHOULD be able to handle it.
Erm. Finale *does* handle it, in an elegant although not obvious way.
For music in a key, you
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Re: Horns and signatures Raymond Horton wrote:
And, of course, Finale REALLY SHOULD be able to handle it.
Erm. Finale *does* handle it, in an elegant although not
obvious way. For music in a key, you
It's really very simple. In 4/4 time, use dotted quarters on beats one and
three, but not on beat two.
When I asked my comp teacher, way back in undergrad, why dotted quarters
were OK in 4/4, he said Because they're easy!
(He was quite a stickler, too. Because of him, I still cringe whenever I
'markante einschnitte' (distinctive divisions) could mean 'beats', but it
could also mean 'strong beats' (one and three).
Ray
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From: Ole Buck
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Thanks and another question
From:
. The
orchestra version stands up quite well to, perhaps even improves upon, the
classic concert band original (I believe the second movement definitely
surpasses it).
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist
Louisville Orchestra
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From: Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: finale list
Lies is a strong word, and here, unjustified.
But I would have agreed with you on the scanning until last week. A friend
of mine (a viola player and user of WinFin2003) astounded me, just a few
days ago, by telling me that he has been having great success scanning.
After some trial and error, he
I do notice nobody has jumped in to defend Micnotator at all. :)
David H. Bailey
You're right there. I know I am more certain of the keyboard than my voice,
so why shouldn't I assume Finale would be? (In other words, I've never
tried it.)
RH
, Raymond Horton wrote:
Lies is a strong word, and here, unjustified.
But I would have agreed with you on the scanning until last week. A
friend
of mine (a viola player and user of WinFin2003) astounded me, just a few
days ago, by telling me that he has been having great success scanning
I have seen a quarter rest, followed by a sixteenth, with a bracket over
both, on occasion. As long as the bracket is obvious, it is clear enough.
Raymond Horton
Louisville Orchestra
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From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I just bought one a few weeks ago and am
very happy with it. But what do I do now that it is discontinued?
I have never owned a laser printer before, so I have no experience with
replacing toner cartridges. How soon should I be concerned about not being
able to
From a practical standpoint, I would suggest that the ad lib bars be
followed simply by a marking of PLAY or (play) or (always play).
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist
Louisville Orchestra
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From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday
No, we mean tenor clef for horns, NOT treble clef 8ba. 8ba treble clef is
not used in in instrumental scores, (nor should it be). And viola stays in
alto clef in a C score, and tenor clefs can be used freely, too.
Please don't take offense, but you are being a bad example for your friends
John, you excerpted only part of my reply. You left out this:
In any commercial situation, Bb trumpets are the norm. Higher keys can be
asked of pros.
RH
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From: John.Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject:
In the old well-meaning attempts by publishers to print a correct clef for
the tenor voice I've seen the G-clef-plus-bracket that Mark mentions (the
bracket is meant to be borrowed from tenor clef, I believe), and I've seen
the double G clef, both on old choral scores I've found in church
David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The trumpet transposition is so that a trumpet player doesn't have to
learn different fingerings for A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G trumpets -- one set
of fingerings works for all (with some adjustments for intonation, but
that happens even between different
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From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And by the way, in a professional context even your answer doesn't
hold. Many orchestral players use a C trumpet to play Bb parts,
This is all true, but it's a choice of the player rather than the intent
of
the composer.
Christopher BJ Smith said
Why do trombones (and tubas)
get off easily, while trumpets have to transpose? They have the same
concert pitch open note (an octave apart).
Easy? You think it's easy to pick up an alto trombone, learn a totally new
proportion of shorter positions, learn a totally
A few observations and a few questions:
One of the worst things about C scores are the horn parts. Neither treble
nor bass clef works well, and alto or tenor clef really seems odd. The F
transposition is so idiomatic for horn - it's not the least bit in the
category of a common convention or
I want to thank everyone on the Finale list who recommended the Ricoh 2610
Laser Printer. (This is the black-only laser that prints up to 11x17 paper
that is available for $530 - $580). I just helped my wife pick it out for
me for my Christmas gift - it's great!.
I had been putting off
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
to reply this way.
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From: Raymond Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: M. Perticone [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] curves resolution
Is it that hard
In FinWin 2004 plugins under Scoring and Arranging.
Ray H
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From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Finale Chat list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Global staff attributes
At 08:47 AM 11/30/2003, Peter Younghusband
Is it that hard to ignore a question if you don't want to answer it?
Ray Horton
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From: M. Perticone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] curves resolution
Is it that hard to click on the Help
Belated thanks to all who offered advice on my recent problems transferring
WinFin files from a problem hard disk. I followed several suggestions (at
one point making the classic mistake of changing more than one one parameter
at once, so I am not really sure what helped) which salvaged many, if
AUGGGHHH!
Philip Aker nitted:
Dear Ray,
Apologies for being an incorrigible nit-picker, but I think there's an
exclamation point missing from that one liner of yours.
Probably. And I really should have put a natural sign in front
octave . This is, IMHO, quite sloppy notation and
asking for trouble, even if it is consistent. I'm still not certain that
everyone in the orchestra got the word, even by performance time. (It was a
pretty violent sounding piece, but maybe it wasn't supposed to be THAT
violent!).
Raymond Horton
OK, but I had upgraded the old system to XP.
RH
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From: Carl Donsbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Raymond Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS
Raymond,
You could try temporarily
OK.
I don't understand - but is there anything I can do from that?
RH
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From: Tobias Giesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Finale list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS
The fact that you
Please help me, knowledgeable people!
A year or so back I upgraded my Dell Pentium 4 from WinME to WinXP. Now,
after a series of hardware problems in warrenty, Dell has shipped me a new
system. I have to ship the old one back pretty soon, but have temporarilly
installed my old hard disk in the
the problem be in the manner in which my son, the junior
computer guru installed it?
Neither are partitioned.
RH
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From: Roger Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Raymond Horton' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Finale
: Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Raymond Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Finale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
Are my fears warranted? Should I bite the bullet
OK, it's sounds like it's failing hard drive, all right, but none of the
problems I was having with the old computer were anywhere close to the hard
drive.
My son did flip a jumper on the old drivewhen he put it in the new computer,
though. Any possibility that was a mistake (maybe a
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