Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-04 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Dean M. Estabrook / 05.2.4 / 09:11 PM wrote: >It opend previsously via Explorer (5.2) I believe. The whole message I >get when I now try to open it is: > >Internet Explorer doesn't know how to handle the type of file you have >selected. You can save this file to your disk, or you can configure a

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge (OT)

2005-02-04 Thread Carl Dershem
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 06:26 PM 2/4/05, Bruce K H Kau wrote: So, when did they introduce smart shape vegetables? You should see the carrots. Just mind your Peas and Q's cd -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/dershem/# ___ Finale mailing list Final

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge (OT)

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:26 PM 2/4/05, Bruce K H Kau wrote: >Well, to pick at nits here ... wouldn't all those potatoes print backwards? Sure, but I'm printing on the back of transparencies. :) :) >So, when did they introduce smart shape vegetables? You should see the carrots. Dennis

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge (OT)

2005-02-04 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Well, to pick at nits here ... wouldn't all those potatoes print backwards? So, when did they introduce smart shape vegetables? At 09:48 PM 2/4/2005 -0500, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >At 04:22 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote: >>Which version of Finale was it that included stencils for cutting

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:22 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote: >Which version of Finale was it that included stencils for cutting clefs >and noteheads out of raw potatoes? Those were the days of real engraving! Alas, we could not keep the engraving set after it was opened: http://maltedmedia.com/photos/maestro-at-

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Dean, Sounds like you need to reinstall the Macromedia Flash Player: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi? P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 04 Feb 2005, at 9:11 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Hey, Darcy: It opend previsously via

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Richard Yates
> This whole field of research has always seemed hopelessly mired in a > priori assumptions and inadequate study design. I consider the people > who claim "scientific" basis for tonality to be the phrenologists of > modern musical scholarship. > > And don't get me started on the bloody prehistoric

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-04 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hey, Darcy: It opend previsously via Explorer (5.2) I believe. The whole message I get when I now try to open it is: Internet Explorer doesn't know how to handle the type of file you have selected. You can save this file to your disk, or you can configure a helper application to open it. MIME

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Man, the tension/release goes right back to the first inhalation/exhalation cycle performed by a human. It's all there, regardless of gender considerations. Dean On Feb 4, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 04:25 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:14:19 +

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Dean, What kind of file is this? What application did it open with before? Do you have a link? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 04 Feb 2005, at 8:53 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Ok ... the other day someone suggested I download OS X.3.7 to improve my life. So, I did. Now, a file

[Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-04 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ok ... the other day someone suggested I download OS X.3.7 to improve my life. So, I did. Now, a file I had just downloaded a few minutes prior to my new OS download, and which had played beautifully (it's a great slide show of Iraq pics with the BYU Choir singing in the background), will no lo

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:25 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote: >On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:14:19 +, Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this >> >>tension-release technique being sexually analogous and >> >>gender-specific, and that in recent years

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 20:10, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 04 Feb 2005, at 7:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >> . . . However, I would think that anyone, > >> ever, from anywhere, would agree that a minor second is much more > >> dissonant than a perfect fifth, and that those two extreme > >> inter

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 04 Feb 2005, at 7:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: . . . However, I would think that anyone, ever, from anywhere, would agree that a minor second is much more dissonant than a perfect fifth, and that those two extreme intervals are absolutely dissonant and absolutely consonant respectively, and wi

Re: [Finale] OT Schoenberg [was Garritan etc.]

2005-02-04 Thread Owain Sutton
Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:33:58 +, Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ken Moore wrote: Even Debussy, who took it on board, went on to transform it out of recognition. And Schoenberg *didn't* transform the Wagnerian influence out of recognition? He did, but I think Ken'

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:22:52 -0500, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience with students from all over the world have demonstrated > to me that Andrew is simply WRONG. [snip] > ...the Western definition of "consonant" and "dissonant" didn't do > it for them, since it reversed th

Re: [Finale] (Moving OT) The good, the bad,

2005-02-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:47:48 -0500, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Gawd I hate you. :) Ooh! an actual smiley! Maybe you won't get flamed this time! :-P -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com FinaleIRC (come chat!): http://finaleirc.com

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 15:01, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 04 Feb 2005, at 2:41 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: > > > > I would agree that there is no hard-and-fast natural boundary > > between the dissonant and the consonant, and that culture plays a > > big role in drawing such arbitrary boundaries. Howeve

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 16:43, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:56 PM, dhbailey wrote: > > > > Ah, but was she a "major" composer? That teacher's statement begs > > the entire issue of what makes a composer a major composer -- is it > > the total output, is it the number of performances o

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:14:19 +, Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this > >>tension-release technique being sexually analogous and > >>gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have > >>emancipated their writing

Re: [Finale] OT Schoenberg [was Garritan etc.]

2005-02-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:33:58 +, Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moore wrote: > > > Even Debussy, who took > > it on board, went on to transform it out of recognition. > > And Schoenberg *didn't* transform the Wagnerian influence out of > recognition? He did, but I think Ken's po

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 14:41, Andrew Stiller wrote: [I wrote:] > >How do you tell the difference between the consonance and the > >dissonance, then? > > > >Without reference to other music or a system of rules not reflected > >in the musical text where the dissonance is never resolved, the two > >terms

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Owain Sutton
There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this tension-release technique being sexually analogous and gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have emancipated their writing from the build-to-climax model implicit in harmonic and architectural tension-release, and th

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 9:01, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: > >they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance > >where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the > >release, so that the audience feels good at the end. > > Let's m

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Feb 2005 at 8:23, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > >> On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > >> > >>> On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >>> > In any even

Re: [Finale] (Moving OT) The good, the bad,

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:51 PM 2/4/05 +, Ken Moore wrote: >When I first heard of it, it was supposed to have a beneficial effect on >teen-age behaviour. I would have thought that would have been easy to >measure in its early days. Nothing in education is easy to measure. Sometimes just the existence of a progra

Re: [Finale] OT Schoenberg [was Garritan etc.]

2005-02-04 Thread Owain Sutton
Ken Moore wrote: Even Debussy, who took it on board, went on to transform it out of recognition. And Schoenberg *didn't* transform the Wagnerian influence out of recognition? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listin

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript question

2005-02-04 Thread laloba2
Ughh...I have had this happen... This isn't perfect but maybe it will speed things up a bit for youit is set to batch process a folder of documents but you can also change it to process all open docs. You still have to change the paper size to US letter manually when the window pops up but

[Finale] (Moving OT) The good, the bad,

2005-02-04 Thread Ken Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz writes: >Thanks very much for the detailed responses about UK education. I support >the idea of including composition, particularly if literacy is part of it. I agree that it's desirable; I don't know to what extent it's required. >[...] > >>Was

[Finale] OT Schoenberg [was Garritan etc.]

2005-02-04 Thread Ken Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Since you brought up Schoenberg, I noticed an interesting thing the >other day when I picked up a "collected writings" book in the >bookstore (I think it was all letters he had written to various >people). As you may know, Joseph Hauer created his own form

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:56 PM, dhbailey wrote: I have no clue how to define "major composer" anymore -- so I attempt to steer clear of that title in discussing composers. Who was more major during their lifetimes, Salieri or Mozart? Who is more major now? Actually, I thin

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:56 PM, dhbailey wrote: Ah, but was she a "major" composer? That teacher's statement begs the entire issue of what makes a composer a major composer -- is it the total output, is it the number of performances of a single masterpiece, is it the number of different organizatio

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I never said that dissonance/consonance was the only way to build tension/release, but it has been a major means to that end throughout music history. -- David H. Bailey Surely you mean *Western* music history--and that only since the 13th century (yes, there was harmony before that, but it was

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
Nature or nurture? Nobody knows for sure. -- David H. Bailey Of course they do. Tension/release governs the structure of every known human music and may therefore be safely considered as biological in its basis. And since music appeals equally to both sexes, the notion that this is some sort of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I would also question the audience's need to have all dissonance released in the end to "feel good." There are many, many works (mostly from the 20th century, granted) that are very successful without resolving harmonically at the end. Just for one broad example, it is very common to end big ba

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
David Bailey: Tension in the listener? That's not important, huh? Release of that tension? That's not important either? Of course they are. But there are numerous, powerful ways to create and release musical tension without reference to harmony, and highly dissonated music tends to rely on pr

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Jari Williamsson wrote: dhbailey wrote: And that happens if you use Finale's Explode Music function? Aren't we talking about TGTool's Smart Explosion? Yes, we were, but I was just wondering if the same bug reared its ugly head in using Finale's built in Explode Music function. -- David H. Baile

[Finale] The List Archive

2005-02-04 Thread Henry Howey
Please answer me offlist; however, I have heard discussed the add-on to MAILMAN to have a searchable database with the closed archive. Please send me as many details as possible to set up this service for the list;-) -- Henry Howey, D.M.A. Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: And that happens if you use Finale's Explode Music function? Aren't we talking about TGTool's Smart Explosion? Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 04 Feb 2005, at 2:56 PM, Phil Daley wrote: This seems obvious to me, growing up in the west. I wonder if people who grew up in the east see that situation the same way? Yes. They do. And there's plenty of research to back this up -- Google away, if you're interested. - Darcy - [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hate to add a post that is simply "me too," but Andrew is 100% correct. I would add that there are also timbres that are absolutely dissonant -- although clearly there's a tremendous amount of cultural variability there as well. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 04 Feb 2005, at 2

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/4/2005 02:41 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:   >>How do you tell the difference between the consonance and the >>dissonance, then? >> >>Without reference to other music or a system of rules not reflected >>in the musical text where the dissonance is never resolved, the two >>terms are simply meanin

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Lee Actor wrote: I don't know how many times I performed Cécile Chaminade Flute Sonata, which was written in pre-1900 IIRC, and is Cécile not female name? Maybe you're thinking of the popular Chaminade Concertino for Flute & Piano (or Orchestra), written in 1902. And yes, Cecile was a gal. Ah, bu

RE: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Lee Actor
> > I don't know how many times I performed Cécile Chaminade Flute Sonata, > which was written in pre-1900 IIRC, and is Cécile not female name? > Maybe you're thinking of the popular Chaminade Concertino for Flute & Piano (or Orchestra), written in 1902. And yes, Cecile was a gal. -Lee ___

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
How do you tell the difference between the consonance and the dissonance, then? Without reference to other music or a system of rules not reflected in the musical text where the dissonance is never resolved, the two terms are simply meaningless. At least, so it seems to *me*. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Andrew Levin wrote: David Bailey wrote: What happens if you simply extract each staff normally, then when you open each instrumental file, use the staff tool to turn on display of measure expressions? After extracting parts the display is already set to show measure expressions. And they're the

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread laloba2
And any gender issue would only be a tendency, not a rule. Women are not a homogenous group any more than men are. Well put Christopher!! Bravo!! I do believe that there are gender tendencies in most things in life...so I guess that those tendencies could also be reflected in music. But I have

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript question

2005-02-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
No, there isn't a way to do this with Finale Script, at least there wasn't when I last checked. I already requested that, but it won't hurt to request it again. Johannes Brad Beyenhof wrote: For those of you who have used FinaleScript (I have, but mostly just for batch printing): Is there a way

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I don't know how many times I performed Cécile Chaminade Flute Sonata, which was written in pre-1900 IIRC, and is Cécile not female name? When I first heard Maria Schneider's music, I felt she took Gil Evans' music to where gender influenced. But when I actually met her, I felt her music is muc

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
You know, that's kind of offensive considering all of the real pre-1900 female composers they could have chosen. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 04 Feb 2005, at 11:44 AM, Phil Daley wrote: This brought to mind a thing that happened when I was in high school. The HS band director

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/4/2005 10:41 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >At 10:27 AM 2/4/05 -0500, John Howell wrote: >>Commentaries? In other words, opinions, right? Let me know when >>there are some valid, controlled studies available rather than just >>commentaries. Hey, there might be dissertations waiting to be

[Finale] FinaleScript question

2005-02-04 Thread Brad Beyenhof
For those of you who have used FinaleScript (I have, but mostly just for batch printing): Is there a way for FinaleScript to change the Page Setup (from the File menu) settings for a group of files? Inexplicably, I was sent a ton of files whose Page Layout dimensions are Letter, but Page Setup siz

[Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Levin
Jari wrote: You could run the File Integrity check on it, but if that doesn't solve it I think you should send the file to Tobias. Results: Data check deleted 534 entries (out of 1168), 3 fonts, one articulation definition, and one text expressions definition. I also fixed "minor inconsistencies

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Levin
David Bailey wrote: What happens if you simply extract each staff normally, then when you open each instrumental file, use the staff tool to turn on display of measure expressions? After extracting parts the display is already set to show measure expressions. And they're there. Problem is, when

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:27 AM 2/4/05 -0500, John Howell wrote: >Commentaries? In other words, opinions, right? Let me know when >there are some valid, controlled studies available rather than just >commentaries. Hey, there might be dissertations waiting to be >written! But wait, it's okay to have opinions abo

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Wolf
John Howell wrote: Which is exactly how Hindemith treats it at the beginning of "The Craft of Musical Composition," giving the theoretical basis for Neo-Classicism much as Rameau had given the theoretical basis for major/minor tonality in 1722. John And of course, Hindemith's theory is totally

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Wolf
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 04:22 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote: Which version of Finale was it that included stencils for cutting clefs and noteheads out of raw potatoes? Those were the days of real engraving! Oh, you must mean these: http://maltedmedia.com/photos/maestro-yukon-go

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread John Howell
At 9:01 AM -0500 2/4/05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the release, so that the audience feels good at the end. Let's mix it up some mo

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread John Howell
At 3:01 AM -0300 2/4/05, M. Perticone wrote: hello mr. fenton and listers, But if there's no dissonance, there's also no consonance. You can't change the definition of one without altering the definition of the other, [snip] of course i understand what you say it's true from a musical syntax sta

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 04:22 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote: Which version of Finale was it that included stencils for cutting clefs and noteheads out of raw potatoes? Those were the days of real engraving! Oh, you must mean these: http://maltedmedia.com/ph

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:22 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote: >Which version of Finale was it that included stencils for cutting clefs >and noteheads out of raw potatoes? Those were the days of real engraving! Oh, you must mean these: http://maltedmedia.com/photos/maestro-yukon-gold.jpg Dennis ___

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:28 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: There are other ways to build and release tension than harmonically. Volume is one. Marcelo Perticone mentioned another couple of very good examples from conventional repertoire. Schoenberg's opus 16 (I think that is the right

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Patterson
It is quite clear that Fin05 changed something in the rules for how score expressions are copied. The old rules were awful, so this is not a complete case of changing something that wasn't broken. Another issue may be that TGTools Smart Explosion has not been updated to reflect the new rules.

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Allen Fisher
I use this plug-in, and I noticed that it duplicates a lot of expressions. I can't find the email I sent to Tobias about it, so I don't remember how we solved it. On 2/4/05 7:42 AM, "Jari Williamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > Andrew Levin wrote: > >> Do I have a file problem? There was a Fi

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:23 AM, dhbailey wrote: Schoenberg was a male and he pioneered (or was pivotal, anyway) in the abandoning of the tension/release model of composition, Tension-release in HARMONY, not in all ways. And he didn't abandon it completely anyway, he just made it easier to ignore it

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:23 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: >You mean to tell me that men are the only participants in a sexual >encounter who enjoy it? Come on, now, Dennis. That's not been my >experience! Why does the sexual analogy of the tension-release have to >be from a male point of view? I know of sev

Re: [Finale] Virtual Orchestra and quality productions

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:11 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: >The reviewer didn't like the show. Period. What's the big deal? Do I really have to put in a string of smilies? Here are some for future use: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Dennis ___ Fi

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:41 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any e

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the release, so that the audience feels good at the end. Let's mix it up some more! :) There have been

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:41 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, "emancipation of th

[Finale] Emergency Request for parts

2005-02-04 Thread Gary Griffiths
Dear All - is there anyone in the UK that has a set of parts for 'A Boy Like That' and 'Maria' from West Side Story, and would be willing to rent them to us. Boosey and Hawkes are trying to get hold of a set from the states for us to hire, but they are not getting results. And the concert is next

Re: [Finale] Virtual Orchestra and quality productions

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 08:04 AM 2/4/05 -0500, Raymond Horton wrote: One more crosspost from Orchestra-L: FROM: Erich Graf, President, Local 104, Salt Lake City; Principal flutist, Utah Symphony [EMAIL PROTECTED] The virtual orchestra production of "Oliver" appeared in Salt Lake City several

Re: [Finale] Human playback gliss. bug

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:56 PM 2/4/05 +0100, Jari Williamsson wrote: >The problem here is that there's no standard for how a pitch wheel event >should be interpreted. HP assumes that all devices work like the >SoftSynth, while many other devices (such as SoundBlaster for example) >use a much higher pitch wheel det

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: >they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance >where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the >release, so that the audience feels good at the end. Let's mix it up some more! :) There have been some pretty intense com

Re: [Finale] Human playback gliss. bug

2005-02-04 Thread Jari Williamsson
Don Hart wrote: Is that a bug in HP pitchbend glissandos ? Chromatic and diatonic work OK but the gliss doesn't move the pitch far enough with pitchbend selected. The problem here is that there's no standard for how a pitch wheel event should be interpreted. HP assumes that all devices work like

Re: [Finale] Virtual Orchestra and quality productions

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:04 AM 2/4/05 -0500, Raymond Horton wrote: >One more crosspost from Orchestra-L: >FROM: Erich Graf, President, Local 104, Salt Lake City; Principal flutist, >Utah Symphony >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >The virtual orchestra production of "Oliver" appeared in Salt Lake City >several months ago. Not only

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread Jari Williamsson
Andrew Levin wrote: Do I have a file problem? There was a Finale version some versions back that created problems with files, that a later utility would check out. Could this be it? You could run the File Integrity check on it, but if that doesn't solve it I think you should send the file to Tob

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, "emancipation of the dissonance" certainly does not imply elimi

[Finale] Hiding stems

2005-02-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: Apologies if I missed something along the way, and am repeating what has already been written here. I am remembering from a few weeks back, a discussion of how to hide stems, as for plainchant, and I further remember the observation in that thread, that one could hide stems globally, o

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, "emancipation of the dissonance" certainly does not imply elimination of the consonant.

Re: [Finale] (Moving OT) The good, the bad, etc.

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Ken, Thanks very much for the detailed responses about UK education. I support the idea of including composition, particularly if literacy is part of it. At 09:13 PM 2/3/05 +, Ken Moore wrote: >I haven't deliberately misled you, but the compositional element of >11-15 music has no stylistic r

[Finale] Virtual Orchestra and quality productions

2005-02-04 Thread Raymond Horton
One more crosspost from Orchestra-L: FROM: Erich Graf, President, Local 104, Salt Lake City; Principal flutist, Utah Symphony [EMAIL PROTECTED] The virtual orchestra production of "Oliver" appeared in Salt Lake City several months ago. Not only did our local music critic criticize the paucity of th

Re: [Finale] G*d-awful score expressions bug

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Andrew Levin wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: You haven't exactly "wrought" this. This stuff has to do with 2005 and its staff lists. That may be, but I think it's something else. I tried the same procedure with FinMac 2004c and got some interesting results. 1) I had kept the original score, which