Re: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-28 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 28/05/2003 05:47:37 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in matters where an old practice and a new one are equally clear, I often prefer the older or more traditional method. I'm sorry, I don't find the two methods equally clear. I find the new method of not naturaliz

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread Michael Edwards
[Giz Bowe:] >>Hi, Jim -- do I understand you correctly: that you would "naturalize" the >>outgoing key signature in addition to the new key signature? That is, going >>from Bb to G you'd naturalize the Bb & Eb and put F#? [Mark D. Lew:] >Jim can speak for himself, but yes, what you describe is t

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread James O'Briant
Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > Huh? Finale doesn't automatically put > in courtesy accidentals at all, with > or without parentheses, unless you > invoke the Cautionary Accidentals > plugin, ... > > Or are you referring to something else? I do my note entry in standard entry. When I see the

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 4:43 PM -0700 5/27/03, James O'Briant wrote: Giz Bowe wrote, in part: I do like courtesy accidentals for notes, and I like to see them in parens. What's your "house style" here? I prefer them in parentheses as well, but since Finale doesn't automatically put them in parentheses, that's OK w

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread James O'Briant
Giz Bowe wrote, in part: > do I understand you correctly: that you > would "naturalize" the outgoing key signature > in addition to the new key signature? That is, > going from Bb to G you'd naturalize the Bb & > Eb and put F#? Yes. > Some of the other posts here suggest that > using courte

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 3:56 PM 05/27/03, Giz Bowe wrote: >Hi, Jim -- do I understand you correctly: that you would "naturalize" the >outgoing key signature in addition to the new key signature? That is, going >from Bb to G you'd naturalize the Bb & Eb and put F#? Jim can speak for himself, but yes, what you describe

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread Giz Bowe
Hi, Jim -- do I understand you correctly: that you would "naturalize" the outgoing key signature in addition to the new key signature? That is, going from Bb to G you'd naturalize the Bb & Eb and put F#? I'm not trying to be argumentative -- just trying to get a professional opinion on common p

RE: [Finale] Accidentals and Key Changes

2003-05-27 Thread James O'Briant
Somehow, I just can't understand all this desire to do everything differently, just for the sake of making a change or developing an individual engraving style! If music is tonal, it needs a key signature. Printing it with no key signature, and with accidentals, only provides an obstacle to goo