Re: [Finale] OT: ATI Displays 4.5

2005-04-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Johannes, I've heard that rumor repeated frequently, but so far I've seen no "official" mention of it from Apple. Have you? If not, I guess we'll find out for sure in a few weeks! - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 20 Apr 2005, at 2:26 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Apparently scree

Re: [Finale] OT: ATI Displays 4.5

2005-04-19 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Apparently screen rotation is going to be a feature of Tiger. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: ATI Displays 4.5

2005-04-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
ATI released their latest Mac drivers today -- ATI Displays 4.5. Unlike previous releases, this version of ATI Displays supports *all* Macs with ATI video cards, including OEM ATI cards (previously, this was recommended only for users with retail ATI cards). https://support.ati.com/ics/supp

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Apr 2005 at 12:32, Andrew Stiller wrote: > I might point out as well that the range of the trombone is exactly > the same as that of the horn, yet it is entirely possible, and > commonplace, to notate its full range w.o resort to either a > transposition or any C clef, much less the alto cle

Re: [Finale] Tempo Tool Playback

2005-04-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Apr 2005 at 8:54, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >> But they don't override tempos tool alterations that occur > >> literally 100s of measures after the tempo expressions. > >> > >> In the present piece, there is one tempo expression, at the very > >> head of the movement,

Re: [Finale] Tempo Tool Playback

2005-04-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Apr 2005 at 14:19, Jari Williamsson wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > But they don't override tempos tool alterations that occur literally > > 100s of measures after the tempo expressions. > > > > In the present piece, there is one tempo expression, at the very > > head of the movement

Re(2): [Finale] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread Leigh Daniels
His American colleagues were the ones having trouble playing with him when he was playing the Euro-tuned piano. I think it might have been some brass or wind players. **Leigh On Tue, Apr 19, 2005, John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>As part of a conversation with a pianist friend today, we

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24

2005-04-19 Thread dhbailey
Don Robertson wrote: On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Finale mailing list submissions to finale@shsu.edu [snip] Please don't quote the entire digest. We're not about to wade through the whole thing just to see if you added any comments. Snip it so that just the per

[Finale] pdfs

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Florence
Hi all: This has probably been covered. I am using MacFin 2005b, OS 10.3.9, an HP 5100 printer and Adobe 7. I usually print my parts at 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. If I save to pdf, I can print at 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. But when I quit everything defaults back to 8 1/2 x 11. how can I make the larger setting the de

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24

2005-04-19 Thread Don Robertson
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Finale mailing list submissions to finale@shsu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [Finale] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread John Howell
At 6:00 PM -0400 4/18/05, Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello Knowledgeable Finale-ists, As part of a conversation with a pianist friend today, we both were wondering why Concert Pitch A in America is 440 Hz and different in Europe. He said when he was touring in Europe, he had to request the American 440 H

Re: [Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-19 Thread dhbailey
Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: For what it's worth, here's a feature request I've sent to Makemusic: that we be able to enter hairpins from within the Expression tool. The process of entering dynamics with occurrences of dynamics-text and hairpins requires changing the tool all the time

Re: [Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-19 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Allen Fisher wrote: I'd rather have custom smart shape hairpins that I could attach text to. (A mezzo di voce < > tool is on my list too) That sounds like a minor feature to implement. They already have the hairpin, they already have the text and a way of attaching

Re: Re(2): [Finale] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Cook
You can find more information here: http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/ Pitch_(music)#Historical_pitch_standards Michael Cook On 19 avr. 05, at 21:12, Leigh Daniels wrote: Andrew, Thanks for the detailed information! **Leigh On Tue, Apr 19, 2005, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok,

[Finale] Re: Clip Files

2005-04-19 Thread shirling & neueweise
From: Robert Patterson Does anyone know if it is still possible to use clip files? used them extensively recently (mac 05), noticed no problems. jef -- shirling & neueweise \/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com _

RE: [Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-19 Thread George Galway
Good idea Matthew, I will send a similar request. George Galway -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account Sent: 19 April 2005 21:30 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion For what it's worth,

Re: [Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-19 Thread Allen Fisher
I'd rather have custom smart shape hairpins that I could attach text to. (A mezzo di voce < > tool is on my list too) On 4/19/05 3:29 PM, "Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > For what it's worth, here's a feature request I've sent to Makemusic: > that we be able to en

[Finale] the copyist's job (was clef changes or something similar...)

2005-04-19 Thread shirling & neueweise
From: Andrew Stiller In my experience, the vast majority of copyists regard it as their duty to literally copy exactly what they find in the score when extracting parts. There are many places where a composer changes clefs merely to save vertical space in the score, and you will never see those cha

[Finale] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-19 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account
For what it's worth, here's a feature request I've sent to Makemusic: that we be able to enter hairpins from within the Expression tool. The process of entering dynamics with occurrences of dynamics-text and hairpins requires changing the tool all the time: if there were Expression metatools th

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread RegoR
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:36:26 -0400, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: if I find anything in the manuscript that is notationally unclear, or looks like a mistake, or represents nonstandard practice, I will ask about it. That's pr

Re(2): [Finale] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread Leigh Daniels
Andrew, Thanks for the detailed information! **Leigh On Tue, Apr 19, 2005, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok, first of all, there is no different standard. The A-440 standard >was adopted because in ages when instrumental music dominates, there >is a constant pressure to raise t

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Phil Daley
At 4/19/2005 12:32 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: >If I had my absolute druthers (wh. of course I don't), both the viola >and the clarinet would be treble-clef instruments that switched to bass >clef for low-lying passages. And, of course, as a clarinet major in college and a professional clarinet play

Re: [Finale] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 18, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote: wondering why Concert Pitch A in America is 440 Hz and different in Europe. He said when he was touring in Europe, he had to request the American 440 Hz tuning and if the piano was tuned to the European standard, the other performers had a hard time

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: if I find anything in the manuscript that is notationally unclear, or looks like a mistake, or represents nonstandard practice, I will ask about it. That's precisely my point: you ask about it. You don't go off on your own and make a unilat

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:28 PM, John Howell wrote: Andrew is quite right, but other instruments whose normal range crosses between the treble and bass clefs solve the problem through transposed parts. This is true in many cases but by no means all. Piano. Organ. Or if you think grand-staff instrume

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:35 PM, John Howell wrote: At 3:28 PM -0400 4/16/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: Certainly. But Rachmaninoff's use of the convention was by then no more traditional than Hindemith's use of the viola d'amore. Hindemith directed the Yale Collegium Musicum, and was a vio

Re: [Finale] OT: Shameless self-promotion

2005-04-19 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:52:16 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: > For those of you in and around LA: > > The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra will be presenting a new work by me on > Sunday, May 1 at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall. It's free. The band > includes Peter Erskine and John Clayton. They'll also be do

[Finale] OT: I need an arranger

2005-04-19 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
I have 3-4 songs for a big male choir and piano to which I wish to add arrangement for brass section of a symphony orchestra as well as some percussion. If anyone is interested or can point me in a more suitable direction please mail me off list. Cortez _

Re: [Finale] Tempo Tool Playback

2005-04-19 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: But they don't override tempos tool alterations that occur literally 100s of measures after the tempo expressions. In the present piece, there is one tempo expression, at the very head of the movement, which sets the tempo that remains in effect until either another tem

Re: [Finale] Tempo Tool Playback

2005-04-19 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton wrote: But they don't override tempos tool alterations that occur literally 100s of measures after the tempo expressions. In the present piece, there is one tempo expression, at the very head of the movement, which sets the tempo that remains in effect until either another tempo

Re: [Finale] OT: 18th Century Trumpet question

2005-04-19 Thread Eric Fiedler
Martin, As I just wrote to Andrew S. on this list, I'll have to get back to you on this in a couple of days. I saw the book at the Music Fair here in Frankfurt and ordered a copy, after spending a pleasant afternoon browsing through it. As soon as it arrives I'll see what I can do. Eric

Re: [Finale] OT: 18th Century Trumpet question

2005-04-19 Thread Eric Fiedler
Andrew, I'll have to get back to you on this in a couple of days. I saw the book at the Music Fair here in Frankfurt and ordered a copy (after browsing in it for over an hour). As soon as it arrrives I'll take a look ... Eric Habsburger Verlag Fra

Re: [Finale] notation question

2005-04-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 19 Apr 2005, at 3:17 AM, Michael Cook wrote: On 18 avr. 05, at 23:14, Christopher Smith wrote: But back at you, in the key of C would YOU spell the bII7 chord as Db-F-Ab-Cb when there is a perfectly good and functional leading tone B in the key signature? If the next chord is C major I'd certa

Re: [Finale] notation question

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Cook
On 18 avr. 05, at 23:14, Christopher Smith wrote: But back at you, in the key of C would YOU spell the bII7 chord as Db-F-Ab-Cb when there is a perfectly good and functional leading tone B in the key signature? If the next chord is C major I'd certainly spell it with a B, since the B would be fu