RE: [Finale] Re: Broadway

As I understand it (and I have studied with and worked with some excellent voice teachers, although I am not one myself), there are two distinctly different approaches to voice projection, whether for the spoken voice or for the singing voices. The "American" approach, taught in theater school

[Finale] Re: Who are you?

Hello folks, My turn, I guess. On December 13, 1931 my mother gave birth to a little blind, cross-eyed boy in Los Angeles - me. By age six after several operations, I could see with the help of my little thick lenses (about 20/200 worth). Mother taught me piano lessons and discovered I had so-c

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

At 04:00 AM 01/03/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that David Hage cleared this up. The notation that Bruce was describing sounded like the way coma sopras are written in paper and pencil scores... That's 'come sopra' (okay, technically 'cóme sopra'), of course -- Italian for 'as above'. Aar

Re: [Finale] RE: was MIDI transcriptionism now John Williams

not two but three: john williams, guitar legend. regards, marcelo From: "Williams, Jim" > BE CAREFUL!! > There are two John Williamses IIRC--one a jazz pianist and one a movie composer. > Likewise with John Eaton-one jazz pianist, one composer. > Jim "no relation to either" Williams > > -Or

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Williams, Jim wrote: BE CAREFUL!! There are two John Williamses IIRC--one a jazz pianist and one a movie composer. Likewise with John Eaton-one jazz pianist, one composer. Jim "no relation to either" Williams Don't worry, I got the right one! (and I managed to miss th

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to second that one!!! I just love the score to Catch Me if You Can! And, I'm thinkin' that the notorious bar scene cue in Star Wars has got to be an Alien jive of sorts! Wasn't the "Cantina Band" co-written with his son (Joseph)? As far as I know, he wrote that o

Re: OT: LOTR DVDs (was: Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism)

On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a great deal of respect for Howard Shore and the work he has done as a composer. But I can't hear or read his name without also hearing somewhere in the back of my mind "and his all Nurse Band" He was the first Saturday Night Live

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

At 1:51 PM -0500 1/3/05, Christopher Smith wrote: His first film scores (which I have never seen or heard) were reportedly in a swinging, jazzy idiom. Maybe some listers who are older than I am would have seen How To Steal A Million, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, or A Guide For The Married Ma

RE: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

BE CAREFUL!! There are two John Williamses IIRC--one a jazz pianist and one a movie composer. Likewise with John Eaton-one jazz pianist, one composer. Jim "no relation to either" Williams -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Howell Sent: Mo

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

Title: Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism At 1:14 PM -0500 1/3/05, Andrew Stiller wrote:  Drafted in 1952, Williams was assigned to the United States Air Force, and as a part of his tour of duty he conducted and arranged music for service bands. After his discharge in 1954, he spent a year a

[Finale] FINALE server

We've been on Christmas-New Year break at the university. All archives, etc. are now up and running;-) -- 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 Owner of FINALE Discussion List

Re: OT: LOTR DVDs (was: Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism)

David W. Fenton wrote: Which edition is that? I have the three extended editions, but I would have preferred a boxed set of the three together. It's the gift set editions (extra DVD + statue). Each gift set had an extra DVD (Fellowship had the Tolkien documentary, TTT had the extra Gollum DVD, a

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Who are you?

Lou Harrison never ceased to astonish; he was always at the center of whatever musical storm was current, yet always independent. He studied with both Cowell and Schoenberg, was facile with styles from ancient Alexandria and christian chant to fin-de-siecle Vienna and Paris in the 30's, as well

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

Anyway, my family is renting Harry Potter 3 today (we are all still on holidays and the weather is pretty bad right now) and I will enjoy hearing JW's music for the second time. I find I can pay more attention the second time I see a film, as I get lost in the whole package (as I should, I thi

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:57:08 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.3 / 04:21 AM wrote: > > >I just love the score to Catch Me if You Can! > > I just had to say this. > That music is the only screen music I actually bothered myself to go out > and buy the CD :-) The only film musi

[Finale] Re: Number posts in the body of the digest PLEASE

roger, i get this in the body of the digest, don't know why you don't. cheers, jef At 12:00 -0600 1/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 7 Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:24:25 -0500 From: Roger McDuffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Finale] Number posts in the body of the digest PLEASE [...] Roger Mc

[Finale] Re: Broadway

At 12:45 PM -0500 1/3/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: Unobtrusive, realistic personal miking became available in the late '70s. Also, there was a very influential and controversial article published at that time--I forget by whom or in what periodical--called "Singin' in the Pain," that denounced the

[Finale] RE: OT: Who are you?

At 1/3/2005 01:59 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: >>I perform with the La Jolla Symphony >>, Christian Community >>Theater , and San Diego Junior >>Theatre < http://www.juniortheatre.com/>. I've been on >>the sub list for the San Diego Symphony for nearly >

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

At 1/3/2005 01:59 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: >I perform with the La Jolla Symphony >, Christian Community >Theater , and San Diego Junior >Theatre < http://www.juniortheatre.com/>. I've been on >the sub list for the San Diego Symphony for nearly >three

[Finale] OT: Who are you?

Born 7/20/76. I'm a composer, arranger, orchestrator, (French) hornist, editor in San Diego. I work for a local publisher. Most of the tunes I write are for local high school bands and orchestras. I frequently get to conduct my pieces. Did undergrad at the Cleveland Institute of Music and grad sc

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.3 / 04:21 AM wrote: >I just love the score to Catch Me if You Can! I just had to say this. That music is the only screen music I actually bothered myself to go out and buy the CD :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Drafted in 1952, Williams was assigned to the United States Air Force, and as a part of his tour of duty he conducted and arranged music for service bands. After his discharge in 1954, he spent a year at the Julliard School of Music as a piano st

Re: [Finale] Number posts in the body of the digest PLEASE

Roger, This is what I see in my digest, including the message number. Do you see something different? Neal Schermerhorn > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher (Christopher Smith) >2. Re: MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher (Aaron Sherber) >3. R

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

Drafted in 1952, Williams was assigned to the United States Air Force, and as a part of his tour of duty he conducted and arranged music for service bands. After his discharge in 1954, he spent a year at the Julliard School of Music as a piano student of Rosina Lhevinne. I had no idea he was so

[Finale] TAN: home thtr. vs. component system

As many of you know, I had a fire last year that destroyed all my home audio and video equipment. As the time is finally approaching when I can move back into my house, it is time to start thinking about replacing this stuff. Question: what do people think of using a home theater system as an

Re: [Finale] [OT] font order jumbled in OSX

I had a similar problem recently. A work composed about five years ago with special noteheads in many measures looks fine when sent to me by the composer, but when he gave it to his amanuensis for pre-publication cleanup, and the guy then sent his tweaked copy to me, all the special noteheads

Re: [Finale] Number posts in the body of the digest PLEASE

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:24:25 -0500, Roger McDuffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I subscribe to the digest version of our list. I read only those posts that > seem like they would be of particular interest to me. I find it very > inconvenient to hunt for the post I want. The posts are numbered in th

Re: {Spam} Re: [Finale] Re: Broadway

On Jan 2, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Michael Cook wrote: Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in musicals? I'd be interested in finding a history of amplification in musical theatre. Unobtrusive, realistic personal miking became available in the late '70s. Also, there was a very

[Finale] Number posts in the body of the digest PLEASE

I subscribe to the digest version of our list. I read only those posts that seem like they would be of particular interest to me. I find it very inconvenient to hunt for the post I want. The posts are numbered in the table of contents, but there are NOT numbers in the actual contents. I cannot scro

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

Additional John williams credits include an LP recorded by a Shelly Manne group in the late 50's/early 60's, called something like Manne plays Gershwin - all arrangements by Johnny Williams. They were certainly real jazz arrangements and all very good. I count myself among his fans. Chuck On Ja

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

Title: Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you? I did! Pretty cool. :-) On 12/29/04 1:35 PM, "Williams, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: So check it out, Allen! The chart was done on FinWin 2002 & jazz font--even got at least one horn player to swing ;-) Jim W. -Original Message- From:  [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Re: item belongs to which note? [wuz Time Signatures]

In several tools, you can hold down ctrl (Mac: opt) and see where an item is attached. On 1/1/05 4:38 PM, "shirling & neueweise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The problem with Sibelius' implementation of this feature is that >> when you move an it

[Finale] Re: archives down?

the archives are up again, for anyone interested. jef -- shirling & neueweise \/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailma

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

At 04:00 AM 01/03/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I saw that David Hage cleared this up. The notation that Bruce was >describing sounded like the way coma sopras are written in paper and >pencil scores... That's 'come sopra' (okay, technically 'cóme sopra'), of course -- Italian for 'as above'.

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right here both are credited as orchestrator. And, yes, John Williams' sketches are very detailed already. Hmm, there seems to be some difference of opinion on that point. Bruce has weighed in recently with info to the contrary...

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:18 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: Ooh, to the contrary! JW was the leader and chief arranger for a big band before he became the Mr. Lush Film Orchestra Guy we all admire. And I knew "jives" was a solecism, but I guess I hang out with jazz musicians too much. It

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: GPO

On 2-Jan-05, at 11:01 PM, David Froom wrote: This was the first thing I tried, and it made, for me, a HUGE difference. But your suggestion of recording via the Kontackt player . . . I don't think you can do this when using GPO as a plugin in DP. Or am I missing something simple? This I don't kn

[Finale] [finale 2k3 Win] problem with ties in second endings

Hi I have a problem of this nature: I have to create two endings, the first has a chord of 4/4 of lenght tied to another chord in the previous measure, the second ending has exactly the same chord but 2/4 long.   I created the two endings but when I try to do the command "ctrl"+"+" to tie th

[Finale] Miking Broadway

At 9:44 PM +0100 1/2/05, Michael Cook wrote: Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in musicals? I'd be interested in finding a history of amplification in musical theatre. According to "The Language of Show Biz" (The Dramatic Publishing Company: Chicago, 1973, pg. 49) --

[Finale] OT: Who are you?

Here's my two bob's worth: Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, Dec 8th 1956 during the closing ceremony of the Melbourne Olympic Games, preventing my mother from attending. A shady lurker who has learnt a lot from the great contributors to this wonderful Finale list. Fell in love with Music wh

Re: [Finale] Re: Who are you?

It occurred to me that I did play for a 1/2 year with one well known musician: Grover Washington Jr. It was '65-'66 and we were both in the Army Band at Fort Dix, NJ. That was when he bought his first Soprano sax and he used to jam for hours on end. ___

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to second that one!!! I just love the score to Catch Me if You Can! And, I'm thinkin' that the notorious bar scene cue in Star Wars has got to be an Alien jive of sorts! Wasn't the "Cantina Band" co-written with his son (Joseph)? One more thing about John William

Re: [Finale] Fixing Tie Ends

Johannes Gebauer wrote: Marc Shepherd wrote: Does this refer to a version earlier than Finale 2005? In 2005, there are just two fields: System Break Start Adjustment, and System Break End Adjustment. This is 2005a, Mac version, and the third field is called "Extra System Start Space". I don't t

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism

Christopher Smith wrote: On Jan 2, 2005, at 4:47 PM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 1, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Thank you for this detail. This restores my faith in his creativity, work ethic, and honesty, and furthermore jives with what I had previously heard abou

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

On Jan 2, 2005, at 4:47 PM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 1, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Thank you for this detail. This restores my faith in his creativity, work ethic, and honesty, and furthermore jives with what I had previously heard about JW's work. Um... that'

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

I consider midi transcription to be any or all of these things: --Deleting redundant and/or empty tracks from a midi file --Quantizing each remaining track within my sequencer so that it will come into Finale nicely after export. --Exporting cleaned up and quantized midi file and then importing

Re: [Finale] Fixing Tie Ends

Marc Shepherd wrote: Does this refer to a version earlier than Finale 2005? In 2005, there are just two fields: System Break Start Adjustment, and System Break End Adjustment. This is 2005a, Mac version, and the third field is called "Extra System Start Space". I don't think this could have been

[Finale] [OT] font order jumbled in OSX

i copied a few missing characters from one notehead font to another (fontographer in OS9), but in OSX now all of a sudden the order seems to be off for all except those new characters i added. there are no blank characters, they all seem to have had a little game of musical chairs within the