Re: [Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Jane Frasier wrote: To my surprise I just got an email from them saying they don't give permission to use their text. Oh well. I am not surprised that they don't give permission, Perhaps there is too little detail for this specific information, but it occurs to me that there is a way to write a

Re: [Finale] Re: Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Mark Q. Simos wrote: Curiously, the responses to my query seemed split on which of the two alternatives to my preferred scheme was better, and no one seemed to see the need for what I actually was trying to do! Perhaps I got so engrossed in the tangential discussion t

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: In a nutshell: Russell believes that since the fifth is the most powerful (non-octave) overtone, the chord/scale comprised of stacked perfect fifths has special theoretical significance: C G D A E A B F#. (That would be the lydian mode.) I a

[Finale] Re: Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Q. Simos
Hello from the OP (Original Poster!) of the question: Thanks to all for the informative replies. I did not expect my query to lead to debates about Rameau's quest for the harmonic overtone origin of the major scale or Russell's Lydian chromatic theory, but this is one list where the conversation

[Finale] Lydian Harmonic Theory [ was Question on modal key signatures ]

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Q. Simos
I've only heard of Russell's Lydian Chromatic theory in passing, but I did want to share an interesting experience with some relevance. A few years back, on a musical tour to Sweden visiting the folk music museum in Falun, I got to hear some wonderful recordings of shepherd's pipe music (a simp

[Finale] space systems evenly not working

2004-10-14 Thread Ryan Beard
Hi listers, FinMac2k4c. OS 10.2.8 I currently have 4 systems on a page. They're layed out towards the top of the page with 0 room between the systems. I want to use Space Systems Evenly to, well, uh, space out the 4 systems evenly across the page. When I do this, however, it only give me three sy

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Oct 2004, at 10:19 PM, Richard Yates wrote: In the series on C, don't the overtones go C, C, G, C, E, G ? Yeah, but it doesn't stop there. Continuing from where you left off: Bb, C, D, E, F#. The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards). And these upper partials are so

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Yates
> > In the series on C, don't the overtones go C, C, G, C, E, G ? > > Yeah, but it doesn't stop there. > > Continuing from where you left off: Bb, C, D, E, F#. > > The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards). And these upper partials are so remote that claiming that they 'e

Re: [Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: BTW, if you've not done so already it might be worth your time do an internet search on the text, as you may find that the text you want to use is in fact in the public domain. As I recall, they can put a copyright notice on the card, even if

Re: [Finale] TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Jane Frasier wrote: I want to use the text on a greeting card for a choral work. I have contacted the greeting card company via email, but have not heard anything. Is it legal to send them a certified letter that says something like, "I would like to use this text f

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 3:58 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: It's an abstract creation. (Show me a minor triad in the overtone series, and I'll concede) Just because a minor triad doesn't occur in a single overtone series doesn't mean that the Western scale isn't an inherent product of the overtone series.

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 14, 2004, at 8:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing from where you left off: Bb, C, D, E, F#. The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards). - Darcy This is where theories of overtone-based scales fall down. Actually existing vibrating systems are not purely harm

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 14, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Mark Q. Simos wrote: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to use key sign

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread kallisti
>All I'm suggesting is that if someone wants to comment on Russell's theoretical work, they may want to actually read at least some of what he has to say before dismissing everything he's written out of hand on the basis of a one-sentence summary. - Darcy That's precisely why I didn't mention

Re: [Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Jane Frasier wrote: To my surprise I just got an email from them saying they don't give permission to use their text. Oh well. I am not surprised that they don't give permission, but that I actually got a reply this quickly from a Legal Assistant. BTW, if you've not done so already it might be w

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread kallisti
>If I say "A is derived from B," I am making a historical statement: A came first, and B both came later and had its origins provably in A. Oops! Of course I shoulda said B came first & A came later. But you knew that. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread kallisti
Continuing from where you left off: Bb, C, D, E, F#. The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards). - Darcy This is where theories of overtone-based scales fall down. Actually existing vibrating systems are not purely harmonic. Above the 6th partial or so, real vibrators

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 14, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Sure it's wrong, but only as wrong as the claims that western tonality is some inherent product of the overtone series. They're *all* abstract. How we *interpret* various musics is the important difference. Hmm. Russell claims that the "music

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Andrew, Whatever one thinks of George Russell's Lydian Chromatic theory -- and while I admire his music a great deal, I definitely have my reservations about his analysis -- his ideas are, in fact, absolutely grounded in "questions of human nature." All I'm suggesting is that if someone want

Re: [Finale] Fin2005 crashing

2004-10-14 Thread Godofredo Romero
Have you tried to save the file with a different name? Something else that could be hapening is the existence in the file of some measures with more notes than allowed but hidden. Godofredo Darcy James Argue wrote: Hello, I have a file in Fin2005 that seems to crash Finale with alarming regulari

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread laloba2
1) From a notation propriety point of view, any reactions to this strategy? I understand that there are alternatives, such as notating D mixolydian with one sharp; or 2) notating with two sharps and then using naturals throughout where alteration is required. A problem with (1) is that classic

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread kallisti
Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, harmony, etc. If it didn't reject the norms of the standard model it wouldn't be an alternative theory, would it? - Darcy That,

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 7:48 PM -0400 10/14/04, dhbailey wrote: John Howell wrote: At 11:58 PM +0100 10/14/04, Owain Sutton wrote: Sure it's wrong, but only as wrong as the claims that western tonality is some inherent product of the overtone series. Isn't it? Where else did it come from? It's an abstract crea

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 4:44 PM -0700 10/14/04, Richard Yates wrote: > >But Bartok was doing exactly what the OP is describing ?! What is "OP"? Original Poster OH. Makes sense once you know the answer! But no, transcribing old fiddle tunes may be an analog to what Bartok was doing in collecting folk songs, but isn'

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 14, 2004, at 4:47 PM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, mod

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Oct 2004, at 07:48 PM, dhbailey wrote: In the series on C, don't the overtones go C, C, G, C, E, G ? Yeah, but it doesn't stop there. Continuing from where you left off: Bb, C, D, E, F#. The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards). - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brook

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 11:58 PM +0100 10/14/04, Owain Sutton wrote: Sure it's wrong, but only as wrong as the claims that western tonality is some inherent product of the overtone series. Isn't it? Where else did it come from? It's an abstract creation. Well, I haven't read Rameau (1722) i

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, har

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Yates
> >But Bartok was doing exactly what the OP is describing ?! > > What is "OP"? > Original Poster ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 12:25 AM +0100 10/15/04, Owain Sutton wrote: John Howell wrote: At 2:54 PM -0400 10/14/04, Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of olde

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 11:58 PM +0100 10/14/04, Owain Sutton wrote: Sure it's wrong, but only as wrong as the claims that western tonality is some inherent product of the overtone series. Isn't it? Where else did it come from? It's an abstract creation. Well, I haven't read Rameau (1722) in the original, or i

[Finale] Fin2005 crashing

2004-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hello, I have a file in Fin2005 that seems to crash Finale with alarming regularity. I've run a data check on it and such, but still no luck -- I can barely make two edits without Finale crashing. Could I ask a favor -- could some try this file out on their machine and see if they have the sam

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
John Howell wrote: At 2:54 PM -0400 10/14/04, Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, m

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 2:54 PM -0400 10/14/04, Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to u

Re: [Finale] Gershwin

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 7:14 AM +1000 10/15/04, Keith Helgesen wrote: Please settle a bet. What was relationship of George and Ira Gershwin. Thanks Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Brothers, neh? John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, ha

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, harmony, etc. If it didn't reject the norms of the standa

Re: [Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:29 PM 10/14/04 -0600, Jane Frasier wrote: >To my surprise I just got an email from them saying they don't give >permission to use their text. Oh well. I am not surprised that they don't >give permission, but that I actually got a reply this quickly from a Legal >Assistant. A friend who wa

Re: [Finale] TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread John Howell
At 1:22 PM -0600 10/14/04, Jane Frasier wrote: I want to use the text on a greeting card for a choral work. I have contacted the greeting card company via email, but have not heard anything. Is it legal to send them a certified letter that says something like, "I would like to use this text for

Re: [Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Jane Frasier
To my surprise I just got an email from them saying they don't give permission to use their text. Oh well. I am not surprised that they don't give permission, but that I actually got a reply this quickly from a Legal Assistant. Jane - Original Message - From: "Ryan Beard" <[EMAIL PROTE

[Finale] ClearType in Finale Windows?

2004-10-14 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account
Is there any way to get ClearType to work in Windows Finale? (I've only got the Finale 2005 demo but am impressed by Cleartype in other applications) --- Matthew Hindson Composer http://www.hindson.com Artistic Director, 2006 Aurora Festival ___ Final

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
Darcy James Argue wrote: Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, harmony, etc. If it didn't reject the norms of the standard model it wouldn't be an alternative theory, w

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, harmony, etc. If it didn't reject the norms of the standard model it wouldn't be an alternative theory, would it? - Darcy - [E

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures Geo. Russell)

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Israels
Owain Sutton wrote: Ouch. I'll stick my neck out here, and say that Russell is plain-and-simply wrong. If you'd like the musical theory equivalent of a trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn by way of Cleveland, read Russell's theories. George showed kindness to me years ago by hiring me to play in hi

Re: [Finale] Gershwin

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Israels
Brothers Chuck On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Keith Helgesen wrote: Please settle a bet. What was relationship of George and Ira Gershwin. Thanks Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen.Director of Music, Canberra City Band.Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0436-620587Private Mob 0417-042171  --- Outgoing mail i

Re: [Finale] Gershwin

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
Brothers. Ever heard of Google? :) Keith Helgesen wrote: Please settle a bet. What was relationship of George and Ira Gershwin. Thanks Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0436-620587 Private Mob 0417-042171 --- Outgoing mail

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
Christopher Smith wrote: As for the philosophical discomfort of presenting modes as altered major or minor scales, I have no problem with that particular twist. According to George Russell, ALL scales are altered versions of the overtone (lydian-mixolydian) scale (major with flat 7, sharp 4),

[Finale] Gershwin

2004-10-14 Thread Keith Helgesen
Please settle a bet.   What was relationship of George and Ira Gershwin.   Thanks Keith in OZ   Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0436-620587 Private Mob 0417-042171   --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by A

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to

Re: [Finale] Changing Articulations

2004-10-14 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 14, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Lee Dengler wrote: I am working on a score where I need to universally change several articulations to several new articulations.  Is there an easy way to do this?  In the Mass Edit menu there is a place to change articulations but you have to select a section of musi

Re: [Finale] Changing Articulations

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Israels
Dear Lee, How about this method: Go to the articulation dialog box by clicking on a note with the articulation tool selected. Choose the articulation you want to replace and select "delete". Finale will then tell you that the articulation is in use in the piece and ask if you'd like to replace

[Finale] RE:TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Ryan Beard
No. If they don't respond, it means that they don't want to grant you permission. You can still send a certified letter, but as someone who deals with permissions quite frequently, a certified letter isn't going to get my attention any more than a regular piece of mail would. I would make a phone

[Finale] Changing Articulations

2004-10-14 Thread Lee Dengler
I am working on a score where I need to universally change several articulations to several new articulations.  Is there an easy way to do this?  In the Mass Edit menu there is a place to change articulations but you have to select a section of music that contains only that particular articu

Re: [Finale] TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
Jane Frasier wrote: I want to use the text on a greeting card for a choral work. I have contacted the greeting card company via email, but have not heard anything. Is it legal to send them a certified letter that says something like, "I would like to use this text for a musical work and if I do

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to use key signatures such as (

[Finale] TAN kind of

2004-10-14 Thread Jane Frasier
I want to use the text on a greeting card for a choral work. I have contacted the greeting card company via email, but have not heard anything. Is it legal to send them a certified letter that says something like, "I would like to use this text for a musical work and if I don't hear from you by

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Gordon J. Callon
Commenting as a editor of early music (17th century) where also modal signatures are very common, it is most honest and correct to use the modal signature (viz. one sharp for D Mixolydian). That is what we do. Some less informed performers may find this puzzling, but if they play modal music (

Re: [Finale] Non printing measures?

2004-10-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Simon Troup wrote: Does anyone know of a way to place measure numbers that show on screen but don't print or compile into EPS and PDF files? As far as I can recall, in 2k3 and previous, the only way to get something that would display on the screen and not print was to define it as an expressi

Re: [Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Owain Sutton
Mark Q. Simos wrote: Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to use key signatures such as

[Finale] Question on modal key signatures

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Q. Simos
Hello, gurus: I, still a Finale novice, am, among other musical endeavors, a fiddler (Appalachian/old time, Irish, other styles) and am starting to do a lot of transcriptions of older fiddle music. For a number of modal tunes, my preference is to use key signatures such as (F# C natural) for a

[Finale] Castello OT

2004-10-14 Thread Henry Howey
There is a new recording of castello's works, though played on cornettos and sacbuts. It's called LA SACQUEBOUTE. ambrosie AMB 9929 -- Henry Howey, D.M.A. Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/~music/faculty/howey.html Ow

Re: [Finale] Non printing measures?

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
Simon Troup wrote: Does anyone know of a way to place measure numbers that show on screen but don't print or compile into EPS and PDF files? It would be handy to put these in templates so I don't have to place them for working and then remember to remove them for proofs. thanks Simon Troup I beli

Re: [Finale] Hidden Key Signature in Bass Clef

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
George Ports wrote: Is there a way to force a key signature (the Bb in the key of F) to print? I have a page with 2 systems (piano type with treble clef on top and bass clef on the bottom)..4 measures in each. Everything shows fine on the moniter but, the Bb on the bottom (Bass Clef) won't

Re: [Finale] Hidden Key Signature in Bass Clef

2004-10-14 Thread dhbailey
George Ports wrote: Is there a way to force a key signature (the Bb in the key of F) to print? I have a page with 2 systems (piano type with treble clef on top and bass clef on the bottom)..4 measures in each. Everything shows fine on the moniter but, the Bb on the bottom (Bass Clef) won't

[Finale] Non printing measures?

2004-10-14 Thread Simon Troup
Does anyone know of a way to place measure numbers that show on screen but don't print or compile into EPS and PDF files? It would be handy to put these in templates so I don't have to place them for working and then remember to remove them for proofs. thanks Simon Troup _

[Finale] Hidden Key Signature in Bass Clef

2004-10-14 Thread George Ports
Is there a way to force a key signature (the Bb in the key of F) to print?  I have a page with 2 systems (piano type with treble clef on top and bass clef on the bottom)..4 measures in each.  Everything shows fine on the moniter but, the Bb on the bottom (Bass Clef) won't print!     I ca