On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical
theater today
I think a better comparison is with film today. Especially if you're
talking about 19th century opera.
It's no coincidence that there's so many connections
On Jan 11, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Actually, I never had a problem with any attachment folders. I do
have a prooblem with accumulating attachments. But that's a minor
problem compared to download problems through analogue modem
connections in a hotel room, when a huge
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical
theater today
This is a claim that is made again and again, but on any close
inspection will fall apart. It's clear that Viennese Opera was a form
of entertainment for upper
On 12.01.2007 Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
the main reason imo is that the change from Baroque to Viennese Classical was
more radical than any other up to that time.
Now just a pea-pickin' minute here! Surely you're not claiming this change was
On 13.01.2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richter was invited to play at Stalin's funeral, and he played only Bach,
since he knew how much Stalin hated Bach. After enduring as much of this as he
could, one of Stalin's henchmen said, in a voice loud enough for Richter to
hear, Who wrote this shit?
At 3:42 PM -0500 1/12/07, Michael L. Meyer wrote:
... I've been asked to play for the service...
At 6:49 PM -0500 1/12/07, Kim Patrick Clow wrote in reply:
Handel: I Know My Redeemer Liveth (from Messiah).
Yes.
Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze.
Darn!
That was going to be my suggestion.
Daniel Wolf wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical
theater today
This is a claim that is made again and again, but on any close
inspection will fall apart. It's clear that Viennese Opera was a form
of
dhbailey wrote:
This view of opera as the purview of an elite audience, at least in
Italy in the 19th century, goes counter to what I've read where the
public at large awaited the latest operas, every village had its opera
house, the public at large learned and sang (probably as poorly as a
I want to ask an OT question to my Mac friends on the List.
How do I get my old OS9 Mozilla bookmarks into my new OSX Firefox?
Firefox looks for IE favorites only. I am hoping that I will not
have to re-build my bookmarks manually!
Thanks.
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File Import... should give you the option you need.
On 13 Jan 2007, at 14:57, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I want to ask an OT question to my Mac friends on the List.
How do I get my old OS9 Mozilla bookmarks into my new OSX Firefox?
Firefox looks for IE favorites only. I am hoping that I
Debussy Preludes (Danseuses, Voiles, Des pas), Reverie, Clair de Lune
Ravel Pavane (maybe not for sightreading)
Copious works from the Baroque keyboard literature (Bach Suites, Couperin,
Balbastre)
Mozart and Haydn slow movements
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata 1st movement
Chopin slow mazurkas,
John Howell / 2007/01/12 / 01:16 PM wrote:
I think I understand Hiro's reasoning, about implying a scale, but
since I'm not a jazzer I do not grok the fullness.
The important of the derived chord scale is for improvising as well as
voicing for people comping. If the code is marked augmented,
Hi all:
In my forewards* to my editions, I want to have a bar or two musical
example. If I do a screen capture of the screen, that's not good
because
1. I get the colors. I need black and white.
2. It's only a bitmap image, it's not vector, so I can not resize it.
My editor uses WORD for his
On 13 Jan 2007 at 7:06, dhbailey wrote:
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 13.01.2007 dhbailey wrote:
When Verdi died he was worshipped as a god, his funeral was a huge
state procession.
Same with Beethoven and he wasn't exactly a very prolific opera
composer.
Which certainly decries the
On 13 Jan 2007 at 1:05, Mark D. Lew wrote:
Back when I was still on dialup -- less than two years ago, I think
-- I had a little shareware utility that I could run, separate from
my regular email program. It would show a list of all the emails
waiting on my server, with info on size,
On 13 Jan 2007 at 12:59, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
In my forewards* to my editions, I want to have a bar or two musical
example. If I do a screen capture of the screen, that's not good
because
1. I get the colors. I need black and white.
2. It's only a bitmap image, it's not vector, so I can
Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Hi all:
In my forewards* to my editions, I want to have a bar or two musical
example. If I do a screen capture of the screen, that's not good
because
1. I get the colors. I need black and white.
2. It's only a bitmap image, it's not vector, so I can not resize it.
Check
on 1/13/07, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also suggest you change the subject line before Andrew wakes up ;-).
Hehe too late, I'm afraid.
Thanks though!
Kim
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On 1/13/07, Aaron Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Dennis Collins meant composers from the baroque or classical
periods. Not modern ones. I'm trying to be an optimist about this
project. Sure there are bad free editions out there, but maybe this
will be different.
If open source works
On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:44 PM, dhbailey wrote:
The ratio of historical music to contemporary music is hugely in favor
of historical music in opera houses and in orchestral concert halls.
How does that compare to the programming of Mozart's time?
In Mozart's--and all earlier--times, music,
On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical
theater today
This is a claim that is made again and again, but on any close
inspection will fall apart.
I'm glad someone else
On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
from Rennaissance to baroque (how radical was that?)
Immensely: polarization of the voices, especially. As late as ca. 1690
a diarist (sorry, I forget who) complained that he couldn't make head
or tail of a new piece because it had no
Dear List members,
I know this is way OT, but a few of you might be interested,
especially those in the USA Midwest.
This is to announce that the Northwoods Jazz Camp/Jazz Party will
again be taking place this year. This will be the third annual, and
we believe it will be better than
On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:09 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
DeNora's most innovative interpretation is that Beethoven's music
became increasingly individual and idiosyncratic and difficult as his
patrons saw supporting him as a way of enhancing their own status. It
was the very strangeness of his
At 1:09 PM -0500 1/13/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
So, however widespread the admiration of Beethoven at his death, it
was likely not based on the music he wrote in his last 10 years.
I was prepared to argue with this, but as I think about it, you're
probably right. While we may consider
Wow another person on the list that has the first name of Kim; and is a guy!
I'm flabberghasted! We have several Dennises, one is the infamous
other Dennis. I'd never thought there would be more than one guy
with name of Kim,
but I'm certainly glad there is! :)
Good luck with your Jazz Party!
Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
If open source works for Linux, or Wikipedia, maybe there is a
possibility for something similiar for classical music editions:
people sharing their Finale files for others to correct or make
editorial additions.
But perhaps this is too narrow a definition of open
On 1/13/07, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the Graphics Tool, export as TIFF. Word can import TIFFs
directly, or you can save it as a GIF and import that (which will
bloat the file less).
My Tiff has a very mezzotint type look to it, when you zoom into it,
there are rough edges
At 9:32 AM +0100 1/13/07, dc wrote:
Andrew Stiller écrit:
Big mistake. People don't value what they can
get for free. Even a nominal fee would generate
a much stronger response.
I'm sure any business school would say the same,
but in some cases they would be wrong. The cases
I'm thinking
At 12:50 AM -0800 1/13/07, Mark D. Lew wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical theater today
I think a better comparison is with film today.
Especially if you're talking about 19th century
opera.
It's no
On 13 Jan 2007 at 21:04, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
On 1/13/07, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the Graphics Tool, export as TIFF. Word can import TIFFs
directly, or you can save it as a GIF and import that (which will
bloat the file less).
My Tiff has a very mezzotint type
I frequently tell people that classical music exists in the epsilons of the
economic formulas, that is, that which economics cannot explain.
Unfortunately it took me a long time to learn that if I compose for someone
free my work gets thrown in the trash without a second thought. If I charge
even
At 10:23 AM +0100 1/13/07, Daniel Wolf wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be
compared with musical theater today
This is a claim that is made again and again,
but on any close inspection will fall apart.
It's clear that Viennese
David:
You also suggested using the export option of a EPS file.
After struggling with the installation of the PS drivers, I can print
a EPS file that captures all the music, but the instrument names and
the text headers above the first system are not being embedded
properly.
I've tinkered with
On 13 Jan 2007 at 21:18, John Howell wrote:
Although
Kalmus and Luck's aren't going broke, and Dover
seems to be doing well.
Kalmus has been doing its own engraving these last few years, and
some of them are really quite beautifully done, quit in contrast to
some of the old photographic
P.S.
The font that I am using that's NOT being output in the .EPS file
is Adobe Jenson, in the OpenType format (which works on both Windows
and Macs). Would this be a factor in my woes?
On 1/13/07, Kim Patrick Clow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David:
You also suggested using the export option of
It was interesting to hear Claudio Abbado in the 1970's talk about
workingmen's matinees at La Scala that were new at the time, so that Teatro
alla Scala was [then] for everybody. Better late than never, I guess. Then
again, how many people can afford Broadway extravaganzas nowadays?
Aaron J.
Michael Brecker passed away today.
Sad.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--obit-
brecker0113jan13,0,4833721.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Michael Brecker passed away today.
Sad.
Very much so. I can still remember the first time I heard the Brecker
Brothers - it was almost as intimidating as the first time I tried to
play Some Skunk Funk.
cd
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On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:21 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Michael Brecker passed away today.
Sad.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--obit-
brecker0113jan13,0,4833721.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
Thanks for the news, Hiro. He came to my school when I was a student
and I have a
On 1/13/07, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I usually
bump up to 16 million colors, then resize for output and then gray
scale it. The graphics I put up for the Dotted Slurs discussion were
made in precisely that way.
When you say bump up the file, is this done WITHIN Finale, or in a
I've just been offered a commission to write a choral piece. Though
I've done a lot of composing, this is the first time for me in the
world of commissions. If there is such a thing, what might be the
going rate for an SATB piece for a church choir of 20 singers,
lasting about 3 minutes?
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:18 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 9:32 AM +0100 1/13/07, dc wrote:
Andrew Stiller écrit:
Big mistake. People don't value what they can get for free. Even a
nominal fee would generate a much stronger response.
I'm sure any business school would say the same, but in some
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:43 PM, John Howell wrote:
prior to the 20th century popular taste could not exist in the
stratified, class-conscious societies of Europe and, yes, America,
with its pre-melting-pot amalgam of ethnic enclaves and rigid class
distinctions in the Eastern seacoast cities,
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Perhaps I should know better than to debate what is or isn't an
established
classic, but how 'bout Korsakov's Concerto for Trombone and Band
(which the
Russian in me dearly loves no matter how many others find it a waste),
and
Tchaikovsky's
On 1/13/07, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is conventional wisdom, but it's simply untrue. Any culture, at
any time, that has an identifiable classical music must also have a
popular music lying outside those boundaries.
I agree. Renaissance dance music could be based on popular
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
1. I get the colors. I need black and white.
I'm using a version which is very old now, so I don't know if this
still applies
But when I make PDFs by way of Finale's Compile Postscript Listing
I also get colors. My solution is
Not to mention how much Mozart dance hall music (to return to the source of
this thread) is now called classical!
Aaron J. Rabushka
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On Jan 13, 2007, at 3:39 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
Italian Opera, and especially that of the mid to late 19th century
was quite a different animal to that of late 18th century Vienna.
But even then, while, most substantial cities and towns had opera
houses, villages did not. The question of
Mark D. Lew wrote:
Traditional opera today is an antique art, at least in America. The
typical opera fan wants to see and hear opera as it was (or so they
think; in reality, operatic tradition is tied more directly to the Met
of the 1940s and 1950s than to the eras in which the works were
FinMac 2007a, Mac OS 10.4.8, PowerBook G4, GPO Studio, Quickeys 3.1.1
After working in Finale for a few hours, I notice that the whole
system starts slowing down and the fans on my computer stay on. I
assumed this was due to Finale and a large GPO setup.
I discovered to my horror that
--- Dean M. Estabrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just been offered a commission to write a
choral piece. Though
I've done a lot of composing, this is the first time
for me in the
world of commissions. If there is such a thing,
what might be the
going rate for an SATB piece for a
On 14.01.2007 Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Perhaps I should know better than to debate what is or isn't an established
classic, but how 'bout Korsakov's Concerto for Trombone and Band
I tell you my personal anecdote: When I was in school I had a deal with
a pianist/trombonist, that we would play
On 14.01.2007 Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
from Rennaissance to baroque (how radical was that?)
Immensely: polarization of the voices, especially. As late as ca. 1690 a
diarist (sorry, I forget who) complained that he couldn't make head or tail
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