[Finale] Asymmetric time signatures

Hi all! I figured I'd tap the wisdom of the list on this one. A new piece I've started to write is in a rather unusual time signature (12/8 + 2/4) and it starts off having the four dotted quarters followed by the two plain quarters. However, I'd like to move the two plain quarters around in th

Re: [Finale] Re: Horns and signatures

One other option would be that in newer editions of such music, key signatures should be added to the music. I mean, we don't expect horn players to be able to turn their horns into a horn in G or a horn in E flat just because that's what Mozart asked for, so why shouldn't we add the proper key

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

Yep. Two immediately come to mind. Prelude and Fugue #3 from each book of the Well-Tempered Clavier is written in seven sharps. Taris At 07:26 PM 2/20/2004 +, you wrote: Mmmm, didn't Bach wrote a couple of preludes and fugues with 7 sharps? Javier Ruiz. >> I know of further examples not l

[Finale] Different Lyrics for different layers...

I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but I was wondering if there was a way to attach different lyrics to different layers of a single staff. For example, I'm working on a choral piece right now and the sopranos divide in two for a few bars during which they have different rhyth

[Finale] MIDI: Sound substitute...

Hi all... I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good General MIDI substitute for crotales? Taris ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Score Order

Hi all: Looking to tap the collective wisdom on a matter of score order for a chamber work that I'm currently undertaking. The orchestration calls for flute, piano and mezzo-soprano. The Setup wiz would put it in that order, but my mind is telling me that it should be Flute Mezzo-Soprano Piano

[Finale] Tenor Drum

Hey all! I was wondering if anyone out there had an audio recording of a tenor drum. I have an idea of what it sounds like from the description in my orchestration book, but I'd like to know exactly. (If anyone has the CDs for Adler's "A Study of Orchestration", it's example XII-59). Taris __

Re: [Finale] OT System of time signatures

I used to have the notation for that and a lot of other Brubeck songs, but they're all at my parents' house in Ottawa. However, the song you're talking about is "Blue Rondo a la Turk". The time signature is listed as 9/8 (2+2+2+3/8) . And he uses all sorts of asymmetric groupings. These

Re: [Finale] Dancer tempos (previously: Notational conventions in newand old music)

I've had this experience too, but not a rather pleasant one. It was about five years ago, when I was in high school. We were performing "Anything Goes" (the Cole Porter musical). Great show, but our dancers were learning from the CD recording which had some rather lengthy sections cut for time

[Finale] Scordatura notation and playback

I have this niggling feeling that this has already been discussed on this list, but I'm curious about how to notate violin scordatura. In a work that I'm working on at the moment, I'd like the second violins to tune the G string down to F-sharp so that firsts, seconds and violas can play in a t

[Finale] Pronounciation guides in scores

Hi again: Well, I finally got my copy of "The Choral Experience", and I'm getting ready to prepare my set of songs for my retiring professor's present. My question is not in reference to the songs themselves, but rather to the German pronounciation guide that is to be included. Should I include

[Finale] Chordal doubling in five parts

Hi all! I was wondering if anyone knew of any sites (or could just plain tell me) the rules for doubling in five-voice texture. All through two years of harmony classes in university, I never really got taught how to write in more than four voices, but I tend to write string section accompanime

[Finale] 7/8

Hi all! I've recently started work on a new piece for small orchestra, and in the second movement, the time signature is 7/8. The movement starts off with harp alone, and then after four bars adds a gorgeous english horn melody. My problem is that I entered the harp as 3+4, and, without realizi

[Finale] Notation question

Hi all: This is a question I've been puzzling over for quite some time and it relates to a piece I'm composing for women's choir. The piece is totally ametric (in the nature of John Taverner's "Village Wedding"). There is no time signature, but the music is barred. Each system is one complete

[Finale] The Choral Experience

Hi all! My former choir director recommended Ray Robinson's book "The Choral Experience" for a good pronounciation guide to German for a set of songs I'm writing... I asked my father to send me a copy from Ottawa (I can't get one anymore 'cause I live in Nova Scotia, and there's nowhere here th

[Finale] Finale 2001 updater

Hi all! Well, I now am the proud owner of FinMac 2001a. I bought it off eBay. I would have gotten the newest version, but my mac is no spring chicken and it can't really run anything older than 2001. Problem is that I always get an error message about a file called InterfaceLib--BlockZero. Now,

Re: [Finale] blackmusic.ch mailing list memberships reminder

*Long message snipped for space's sake* I was wondering what this was... It looks like someone has subscribed the Finale list to another mailing list... Taris ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] System requirements...

Hi all! Anyone here know of the system requirements for FinMac2k1? I can get it on eBay for a good price and I want to know if my computer can handle it. Thanks, Taris ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fin