Re: [Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread Carl Dershem
Eric Dannewitz wrote: Well, it depends on the drummer. Good ones can read every little thing on the page. I usually just write slashes, with a style or feel, and write out some hits or accents in the drum part that I want played. The vast majority of the drummers I've worked with prefer tha

Re: [Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, it depends on the drummer. Good ones can read every little thing on the page. I usually just write slashes, with a style or feel, and write out some hits or accents in the drum part that I want played. Carl Dershem wrote: I played a big band rehearsal a few months back where the leader

Re: [Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread Carl Dershem
A-NO-NE Music wrote: Matthew Hindson fastmail acct / 2006/12/31 / 06:22 PM wrote: Has anyone used it? Opinions? Just like the Latin Perc plug-in, this isn't the way I write the drum/ perc pert for my musicians to read. The notation style differences aside, writing drum/perc parts can not b

Re: [Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Matthew Hindson fastmail acct / 2006/12/31 / 06:22 PM wrote: >Has anyone used it? Opinions? Just like the Latin Perc plug-in, this isn't the way I write the drum/ perc pert for my musicians to read. The notation style differences aside, writing drum/perc parts can not be too specific if you wan

Re: [Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 30, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Matthew Hindson fastmail acct wrote: This item is listed at the Finalemusic website for sale, but I've not heard anything about it. Has anyone used it? Opinions?

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Dec 2006 at 16:24, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On 12/30/06, keith helgesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could it be an indication to 'staccato' the last note? i.e. to leave > > a miniscule gap between the note marked and the next one- play as > > semiq,semiqrest. > > I have the sense it cou

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Dec 2006 at 17:39, Andrew Stiller wrote: > It is a redoubled "Mozart caret" (wedge staccato). Where in the *hell* does such terminology come from? Mozart never wrote any such thing as "wedge staccato." He only uses dots and strokes and it's impossible to actually make a clear distinction

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread John Howell
At 2:29 PM -0500 12/30/06, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/unclear_articulations1.jpg The symbol that's above the first violin that looks like a double dagger mark (for a lack of a better word) has me befuddled. Can anyone offer suggestions on how that wou

[Finale] ScoreGroove

2006-12-30 Thread Matthew Hindson fastmail acct
This item is listed at the Finalemusic website for sale, but I've not heard anything about it. Has anyone used it? Opinions? Matthew ___ Finale mailing l

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 30, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: It is a redoubled "Mozart caret" (wedge staccato). I have seen this before in other works up to the middle of the 19th c. , and also examples with more than two strokes--up to six, in at least one case. Normally, it would mean to play two

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 12/30/06, keith helgesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could it be an indication to 'staccato' the last note? i.e. to leave a miniscule gap between the note marked and the next one- play as semiq,semiqrest. I have the sense it could mean pay the tied notes, as a dagger. But then in the instance

RE: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread keith helgesen
Looking at the score it occurs to me that the 'mark' is only in strings- as seen anyway. That may be significant. But in the example it is also only on the last of two tied notes. Or does it appear in any different situation? Could it be an indication to 'staccato' the last note? i.e. to leave a m

Re: [Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread Carl Dershem
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/unclear_articulations1.jpg I have a question about an articulation mark that's unclear to me. The instruments you see listed are from top to bottom 1st Trumpet 2nd Trumpet 1st Horn 2nd Horn Timpani VIolin 1 Violin 2 Viola B

[Finale] Articulation question

2006-12-30 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/unclear_articulations1.jpg I have a question about an articulation mark that's unclear to me. The instruments you see listed are from top to bottom 1st Trumpet 2nd Trumpet 1st Horn 2nd Horn Timpani VIolin 1 Violin 2 Viola Basso The symbol that's ab

[Finale] Going quiet for "We Are All Mozart"

2006-12-30 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi Friends, I'll be going 'under the radar' for 2007. Even though the "We Are All Mozart" project (http://maltedmedia.com/waam/) has just 72 commissions to date, I expect it will fill in some more. In any case, it will be a lot of work and I won't be very visible online, except in my blog. The b

Re: [Finale] Scanning a score

2006-12-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, Permit me to clarify a bit what I wrote earlier.: I lay the film across the glass of the flatbed, scan the images visible at 1200 dpi, and save them as ~.tif files. When I want to view an image, I change the dpi from 1200 to a different figure, and the images are a workable size. I t