Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Jan 2005, at 3:32 AM, Don Hart wrote: We're shooting for the same thing in the bass part, but the rub comes when I view the score in concert pitch. That (as far as I know) is a command that affects an entire file. So if I want to see my transposed Bflat clarinet in concert (down one

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread dhbailey
Don Hart wrote: on 1/24/05 2:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Hart / 05.1.24 / 03:31 PM wrote: But when I score the pitches as they will be written in the part, the notes I hear back are an octave too high. It's a transposed instrument. Have you set it that way? I realize

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread dhbailey
Don Hart wrote: Thanks, Chuck, but neither octave up or octave down (+7 or -7) is doing anything to affect playback right now. Maybe it's my file. I'll experiment and let you know if I can fix it. Make certain the Transposition checkbox is checked (it should be once you define the

[Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Michael L. Meyer
Title: [OT] Curious ... who did it? Hey yall -- Sorry for the OT post, but I figured it was a happy one so no one would mind. I was at rehearsal last night, and got curious. Did anybody on this list engrave the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem choral score for Oxford University Press? Im only

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread Jari Williamsson
Christopher Smith wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:54 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Here are some more thoughts: * Have you closed any documents prior to when the bug occurs? Always. * Have you had multiple windows for the same document opened? Not me, in this case. * Has any plug-ins been run that

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Perhaps it would not be beyond the pale (sp?) to give credit on a score to the engraver, as well as composer, arr., etc. After all, it is artistry, no? Dean On Jan 25, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Michael L. Meyer wrote: Hey yall -- Sorry for the OT post, but I figured it was a happy one so no one would

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Perhaps it would not be beyond the pale (sp?) to give credit on a score to the engraver, as well as composer, arr., etc. After all, it is artistry, no? There is actually a long historical tradition of doing just that. In a great many

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread John Howell
At 10:20 PM -0800 1/24/05, Chuck Israels wrote: Of course, if you followed that logic all the way through, you'd write the trombones in the tenor clef a lot of the time, and I don't do that. And I still have to decipher the alto clef for the viola parts (shame on me for not getting used to

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Wolf
John Howell wrote: At 10:20 PM -0800 1/24/05, Chuck Israels wrote: Of course, if you followed that logic all the way through, you'd write the trombones in the tenor clef a lot of the time, and I don't do that. And I still have to decipher the alto clef for the viola parts (shame on me for not

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Michael L. Meyer
On 1/25/05 1:05 PM, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Perhaps it would not be beyond the pale (sp?) to give credit on a score to the engraver, as well as composer, arr., etc. After all, it is artistry, no? There is actually

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread John Howell
At 8:58 PM +0100 1/25/05, Daniel Wolf wrote: John Howell wrote: At 10:20 PM -0800 1/24/05, Chuck Israels wrote: Of course, if you followed that logic all the way through, you'd write the trombones in the tenor clef a lot of the time, and I don't do that. And I still have to decipher the alto

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Jari Williamsson
Michael L. Meyer wrote: After reading this, Andrew, I checked the back page and found Processed and printed by Halstan Co. Ltd., Amersham, Bucks., England. SCORE? When was it published? Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Michael L. Meyer wrote: Not that I ever got into the music OR education business for the glory, but it sure would be nice if engraving credit were given with regularity/consistency.  I lucked out that the few professional engraving jobs I've worked happened to have a

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I would suggest adding (at least) another 256 MB of RAM to your PowerBook. You will notice a considerable difference. Enh, you know me. I have simple needs, and I'm not the sort of person who craves speed. I don't perceive any problem

Re: [Finale] [OT] Curious ... who did it?

2005-01-25 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Cool ... I have never noticed. Dean On Jan 25, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Perhaps it would not be beyond the pale (sp?) to give credit on a score to the engraver, as well as composer, arr., etc. After all, it is artistry, no?

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread dhbailey
Daniel Wolf wrote: John Howell wrote: At 10:20 PM -0800 1/24/05, Chuck Israels wrote: Of course, if you followed that logic all the way through, you'd write the trombones in the tenor clef a lot of the time, and I don't do that. And I still have to decipher the alto clef for the viola parts

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Wolf
dhbailey wrote: Does anybody have a handy link to a list of the various transpositions relative to the various clefs? I know there is a horn method by Lorenzo Sansone which lists the transpositions utilizing clefs, but I don't have a copy of that book. You only need to memorize the following

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2005 at 22:45, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 24 Jan 2005, at 7:39 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Has Darcy reported low memory as a part of his problems? That's hard to say. I had 768 MB of RAM in my old Mac, but I also routinely run Mail and Safari and iKey and DragThing and

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jan 2005 at 0:11, Daniel Wolf wrote: You only need to memorize the following clef sequence: 1. treble 2. alto 3. bass 4. mezzo-soprano 5. baritone 6. soprano 7. tenor Each step up this sequence is equivalent to a transposition by one step on the staff, two steps up the

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread laloba2
On 24 Jan 2005 at 22:45, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 24 Jan 2005, at 7:39 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Has Darcy reported low memory as a part of his problems? That's hard to say. I had 768 MB of RAM in my old Mac, but I also routinely run Mail and Safari and iKey and DragThing and RealPlayer

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread John Howell
At 12:11 AM +0100 1/26/05, Daniel Wolf wrote: You only need to memorize the following clef sequence: 1. treble 2. alto 3. bass 4. mezzo-soprano 5. baritone 6. soprano 7. tenor The two that are omitted are French violin clef (used a lot for flute music, not violin music, in the Baroque), with G on

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread laloba2
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should help...also, Do you mind telling me how much RAM you have in your computer? You can do this off list if you prefer. Thanks. I'm trying to get a idea of what sorts of machines this is happening on...especially memory specs.

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-25 Thread laloba2
(from Jari's reply to Christopher) The questions was because it's the connection between the doc window and the enigma document database that malfunctions before the overwrite bug strikes. And I would assume that the first place to look would be at places that in some way access the table (or

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Wolf
David W. Fenton wrote: That description with the flip octave transpositions are ad lib. at the end seems to be rather clearly oriented towards score reading, not towards performance, where the octave is clearly *not* ad lib. So, I think the whole octave thing is pretty important. When

Re: [Finale] Contrabass playback

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Wolf
John Howell wrote: The two that are omitted are French violin clef (used a lot for flute music, not violin music, in the Baroque), with G on the 1st line, and sub-bass (used in Venetian vocal music of Gabrielli's time) with F on the 5th line. For purposes of transposition by clef, French