Re: [Finale] Large blue triangles

2007-01-23 Thread Raymond Horton
This is odd. I recently installed FinWin 2006c on a new system. When I open an old file, or create a new one with Mister Wizard, on a full orchestra score I get very large blue triangles attached to the tops of each staff group on the score. (Or they may be purple, I'm partly color-blind - t

Re: Re: [Finale] Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread masao iikura
PS: My system is running MacOS10.4.8(Japanes version). >I know a few people engaged in Finale localization in Japan, but I have not h e >ard of such thing. Maybe that is private version for one of them. >For my part, I use Finale English version from the 1st version and I can ente r > any Japanese

Re: [Finale] MIDI keyboard setup

2007-01-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
Any idea what I am doing wrong? Richard Yates it may be that you are using the wrong setup entirely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajP8Gx2KSk -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com

[Finale] MIDI keyboard setup

2007-01-23 Thread Richard Yates
I just got a new MIDI keyboard and am having some trouble with setup. It is a Behringer USB/MIDI Controller Keyboard. With my previous setup I could enter notes into Finale using my old MIDI keyboard and would hear the notes as I entered them using Speedy. Now I hear nothing when the notes are ent

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13

2007-01-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On 22-Jan-07, at 10:52 AM, Guy Hayden wrote: I would like a reference to a thorough discussion of this topic. I have an adult string bass student that wants to learn jazz improvisation. She needs some sort of methodical approach. If someone hasn't already mentioned it, The Jazz Theory

Re: [Finale] Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread masao iikura
I know a few people engaged in Finale localization in Japan, but I have not he ard of such thing. Maybe that is private version for one of them. For my part, I use Finale English version from the 1st version and I can enter any Japanese character though a little bit inconvenient except during a ce

Re: [Finale] Master Tool Palette

2007-01-23 Thread John Howell
At 4:03 PM +0100 1/22/07, Stig Christensen wrote: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-2-44944075; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Attachment converted: Howell Ti:smime.p7s (/) (00187FB5) I don't know what smime.p7s is, but like .vcf and mes a

Re: [Finale] Speaking of mordents---- the "Dagger."

2007-01-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Jan 2007 at 15:57, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > I have a general question about "daggers." More properly, you should refer to them as "strokes," as that's the term used in musicological discourse on the subject, i.e., dots vs. strokes. It's a big controversy as to whether there is a perform

[Finale] Speaking of mordents---- the "Dagger."

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Hi all: I have a general question about "daggers." In early baroque music, a long slash would be noted above (typically, but not always) string figures. I've seen various ways used to engrave that symbol. Some use the single quote (which is what I've done), others use an upside down triangle symb

[Finale] Quickeys

2007-01-23 Thread josue moreno
Hi list, id been reading about iKeys vs Quickeys, someone mentioned that he wouldnt use Finale if he would not have this software, I readed on the product web site and i cant wonder what exactly this kind of software can do for Finale users that cannot be made by Automator on Tiger or some Ter

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread John Howell
At 6:41 AM -0500 1/23/07, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi all: I know typically mordents go above a stave. But would you say the same for the trill marking? It just looks odd to have the trill not near the nothead. But I've uploaded a sample here in case what I'm asking isn't very clear: http://img.p

Re: [Finale] Standard chord symbols?

2007-01-23 Thread John Howell
At 9:00 AM +0100 1/23/07, Daniel Wolf wrote: John Howell wrote: A parallel can be drawn with the figured bass of the 17th and 18th centuries. (This, by the way, is a no-longer-living language, but one that served for generations to solve exactly the same problems that were faced in 20th cen

RE: [Finale] Re: Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread Fisher, Allen
Right. We do support two-byte, just not unicode. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Good > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:00 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] Re: Japanese & Chinese Finale > > Hi Robert and Bruce

[Finale] Re: Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread Michael Good
Hi Robert and Bruce, Cameo is Finale's distributor in Japan, and they produce the Japanese version: www.cameo.co.jp Finale does not handle Unicode, but it supports the old native character sets on both Windows and Macintosh. For Japanese, native character sets are multi-byte, not ASCII. For ou

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread dhbailey
Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:15 AM, dhbailey wrote: In my opinion, all ornaments should be above the staff so they're easy to see and easy to find. A staccato or a > accent (to name but 2) is easiest to find when it adjoins its notehead, because that's what players most ofte

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Kim, I guess I'll dip my oar in this stream. I have a Finale document that I'm finally happy with. The score and parts look fine. The parts were troublesome and very time consuming Let's call that "File A.". My question is this: can I somehow get the layout from "File A" to my new file "File B."

Re: [Finale] Problems with playback of tenuto marks

2007-01-23 Thread Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
Actually - and while it doesn't help at all, I recall this playback problem was a 2002 bug - that is that tenuto markings played back in a sort of odd staccato. I don't recall any decently consistent workaround, only that the behavior problem was alleviated in 2003. Or does my memory really

Re: [Finale] Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Robert, Do you have the website URL? I am not sure how Finale works in Japanese. There are many 8-bit fonts that map katakana, hiragana, and kanji. One of the better ones I found is noted below. Robert Patterson wrote: This list has famously reported that Finale does not have native Unicode

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:15 AM, dhbailey wrote: In my opinion, all ornaments should be above the staff so they're easy to see and easy to find. A staccato or a > accent (to name but 2) is easiest to find when it adjoins its notehead, because that's what players most often see and therefore ex

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi all: I know typically mordents go above a stave. But would you say the same for the trill marking? It just looks odd to have the trill not near the nothead. The only time a trill may legitimately be notated below or within the staff i

[Finale] Re: Naming chords

2007-01-23 Thread John Howell
At 3:27 PM + 1/23/07, Ken Moore wrote: We don't even agree on what is one note. Notation allows us to distinguish 35 names which map variously onto different numbers of pitches depending on context (only players of keyboards and some fretted instruments have as few as 12 per octave), and

[Finale] Japanese & Chinese Finale

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Patterson
This list has famously reported that Finale does not have native Unicode support. But I have seen at least one Japanese website that shows Finale dialogs (including Patterson Beams) translated into Japanese. Does anyone know how this was done? Are there ASCII fonts that do Japanese and Chinese scr

[Finale] Re: Naming chords

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Moore
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This whole issue is the part of music that I have always found hardest for beginning theory students to learn, that music is not about absolute, fixed objects that are unchanging. Music is instead about the changing relationships between the musical

Re: [Finale] E-mail client for Mac

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Moore
I use Mozilla Thunderbird (with Windows, but I believe a Mac version is available). "Reply" produces (in order) the quoted original text, the cursor, the sig. -- Ken Moore ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinf

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Yes, it only takes seconds. With the cut and paste method you run the risk of copying the wrong part of file A to B. And I'd never feel secure if I didn't proof the resulting document. That'd be just another time filled step in a process that's already just too long and complex.. Thanks ! Kim Pa

Re: [Finale] Problems with playback of tenuto marks

2007-01-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:49 AM, dhbailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Finale 2002] I am having problems using the tenuto articulation (line above/ below a note-head) when applied to repeated notes. The default playback is 'change of duration' set to 105%. This works fine when the notes v

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
Do you think that would work to copy a layout from a separate part (from an older version) to a linked part? you can for sure copy between linked parts within the same doc. i don't have finale open to check, but if the measure #s are the same, yeah you should be able to copy across (unlinke

Re: [Finale] Problems with playback of tenuto marks

2007-01-23 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Finale 2002] I am having problems using the tenuto articulation (line above/below a note-head) when applied to repeated notes. The default playback is 'change of duration' set to 105%. This works fine when the notes vary, but used on a repeated note, the playback is b

[Finale] Problems with playback of tenuto marks

2007-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Finale 2002] I am having problems using the tenuto articulation (line above/below a note-head) when applied to repeated notes. The default playback is 'change of duration' set to 105%. This works fine when the notes vary, but used on a repeated note, the playback is bizarre. The first note wor

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
At 07:20 -0500 1/23/07, Christopher Smith wrote: The way I've always done this is to copy the music from File A and paste it into File B, then save under the name File A1 (so as not to lose everything if I make a mistake.) I also have to change the instrument titles and transpositions, but tha

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi all! Please bear with me, this is only the 2nd time I've done this. I have a Finale document that I'm finally happy with. The score and parts look fine. The parts were troublesome and very time consuming Let's call that "File A.". My que

[Finale] in case anyone here is in Toronto

2007-01-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Please allow for a little bit of self-promotion... I will be taking part as concertmaster in a performance of Mozart's Zaide, to be heard on Sunday, at 2.30 in Toronto. Details can be found here: http://toronto.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=15013 It will be performed by Opera in Conc

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread dhbailey
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi all: I know typically mordents go above a stave. But would you say the same for the trill marking? It just looks odd to have the trill not near the nothead. But I've uploaded a sample here in case what I'm asking isn't very clear: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601

Re: [Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.01.2007 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I know typically mordents go above a stave. But would you say the same for the trill marking? It just looks odd to have the trill not near the nothead. But I've uploaded a sample here in case what I'm asking isn't very clear: http://img.photobucket.com/albums

Re: [Finale] How to correct music spacing after changing a time signature

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 1/23/07, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:. What about if you simply select the measures in question, "Music Spacing", "Apply [note] spacing"? It was suggested (by Brad) that I use the mass edit tool, select all, then hit 4 which restores everything to note spacing. I think what you suggest is

[Finale] Mordents and or trills? Always *by* the note head or at the top of the stave?

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Hi all: I know typically mordents go above a stave. But would you say the same for the trill marking? It just looks odd to have the trill not near the nothead. But I've uploaded a sample here in case what I'm asking isn't very clear: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/trill.jpg Than

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Yes, a friend suggested that. I'm so thrilled I do not have to reinvent the wheel everytime I go to extract parts for a new file. *Whew* Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone, much appreciated. Kim Patrick Clow On 1/23/07, shirling & neueweise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >you can do

Re: [Finale] www.Wranitzky.com

2007-01-23 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 1/23/07, Daniel Bernhardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wish you the best of luck with this. It was a bit of a wonderful coincidence.because the day after I purchased this new release on SACD: http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=2286 , I came across your website after it was mention

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
you can do this by copying and inserting. far better solution: use TGTools to copy layout (#mm/system; layout) from A to B -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ___ Finale mail

Re: [Finale] www.Wranitzky.com

2007-01-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.01.2007 Daniel Bernhardsson wrote: I did a search on my domain name and was impressed by the discussion our site had sparked. I would like to take the opportunity to adress some points that arose: Dear Daniel, I wrote you a personal email some time ago, did it ever reach you? For what it

Re: [Finale] Part document settings from one piece to another....

2007-01-23 Thread Raimund Lintzen
Kim, you can do this by copying and inserting. Save your file A under a new name. Copy all with Mass Mover in file B Go to the new named file. Highlight the first measure. 'Insert' from Edit Menue. Delete all measures from file A at the end of the new file. Regards Raimund Lintzen Kim Patr

[Finale] www.Wranitzky.com

2007-01-23 Thread Daniel Bernhardsson
Dear Finale mailing list members, I did a search on my domain name and was impressed by the discussion our site had sparked. I would like to take the opportunity to adress some points that arose: On 1/12/07, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The much I would love to see more by this c

Re: [Finale] Standard chord symbols?

2007-01-23 Thread Daniel Wolf
John Howell wrote: A parallel can be drawn with the figured bass of the 17th and 18th centuries. (This, by the way, is a no-longer-living language, but one that served for generations to solve exactly the same problems that were faced in 20th century pop and jazz.) I have to object to th