Re: [Finale] Lunga (2)

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2006 Henry E. Howey wrote: FINALE (as far as i know has no way to assign 16-quarters as a value;-( Other than defining a tuplet 1:4, but that doesn't allow a special note head, you would have to use special tools I guess. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com

Re: [Finale] TAN: American Idol vs. musical training

2006-07-17 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
On 7/10/06, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but one of my REAL pet peeves is the voice teachers who refuse to teach the basics for healthy singing to students who are interested in the worlds of music outside opera, and then turn around and use them as examples that singing pop or jazz

[Finale] Melodies and melodic composition

2006-07-17 Thread Jamin Hoffman
Dear all - As one of my happy duties as orchestra director at the high school where I teach, I also teach a course called Beginning Electronic Music, wherein I try to teach totally inexperienced and not-too-motivated high school students (with no musical background, I might add) how to compose

[Finale] OT! Mars comes close to Planet Earth.......in August!

2006-07-17 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Title: OT! Mars comes close to Planet Earth...in August! OT, and not related to Finale, but interesting, so I thought I would pass it along to my colleagues on the List: Mars The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an

Re: [Finale] Melodies and melodic composition

2006-07-17 Thread Chuck Israels
Dear Jamin, The answers to this are so many and varied that it is a most difficult question. The most difficult thing is to describe the process of creating coherent melodies (and marrying them to good harmony) in a concise way, and no description is meaningful until the budding

Re: [Finale] Melodies and melodic composition

2006-07-17 Thread dhbailey
Jamin Hoffman wrote: Dear all - As one of my happy duties as orchestra director at the high school where I teach, I also teach a course called Beginning Electronic Music, wherein I try to teach totally inexperienced and not-too-motivated high school students (with no musical background, I

Re: [Finale] OT! Mars comes close to Planet Earth.......in August!

2006-07-17 Thread Wade KOTTER
Lawrence: You might want to check these sites out: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mars-earth-close.html http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07jul_marshoax.htm Bottom line: it's an urban legend. Wade Lawrence David Eden [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/17/06 1:18 PM

[Finale] O.T. Handel's Water Music Anniversary

2006-07-17 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Today isthe anniversary of Handel's Water Music, first performed July 17, 1717 on the Thames. And with the temperature reaching nearly 98 degrees here in New York City,anything to do with water sounds very refreshing ;) There is a wonderful recreation of the first performance of the Water