Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Carl Dershem
Mark D Lew wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are French Beams? It's an abbreviation. What he really means is French-style cut green beams. mdl Ah. And I'd thought it was a way of notating beamed notes that assisted in tonguing difficult passages. cd

Re: [Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks to all for replies. I didn't have the right scores here to check for examples myself. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Patterson
On 3/8/07, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debussy, La Mer, International Music Co. (presumably a reproduction of the original pubn.) blanks out the staff lines but, oddly enough, not the stems. Curious. The Dover edition of La Mer is the opposite. Like all other "French Beam" edit

Re: [Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Christopher Smith
Yes, I see this now in the modern scores I referenced this afternoon. If only I had done that BEFORE I sent out all the parts... 8-( Christopher On 8-Mar-07, at 4:53 PM, Michael Cook wrote: It's standard to connect the groups of four 32nd notes with one beam. You can check this out in edi

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Cook
I have a lot of French scores, some recent, some older and and some dating back as far as the end of the 18th century. In most cases the stems do not carry through the beams (there are even some sloppily engraved scores where some stems do carry though and others don't), but I can't find a

Re: [Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Cook
It's standard to connect the groups of four 32nd notes with one beam. You can check this out in editions of virtuoso piano music by such composers as Liszt, Ravel, Debussy... On 8 Mar 2007, at 21:06, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, I've got some passages in 2/4 with running 32nd notes, and I

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-08 Thread Kurt Gnos
There are two systems. The absolute one which is used in all "roman" ("romanic"?) countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and middle and south america). C is do. D is re. E Flat is E bemolle (depending on the language) and so on. It doesn't have that much to do whith your "relative" system (called "

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Hiro, I love HP printers. I've never had a bad experience with them. But at the time I bought my current printer (3 years ago), I could not afford an HP 5000 series. The Ricoh AP2610 had just been discontinued, and the dealer I bought it from was auctioning off brand new (not refurbish

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Andrew, I'm afraid the problem is not limited to Finale, or even the OS. (Even the printer's test config pages are affected). Selecting "Any Printer" makes no difference. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 08 Mar 2007, at 4:07 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: For whate

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Brennon Bortz wrote: Also, often in French beams staff lines will be removed between beams so that only white space is seen--no stems or staff lines. Could you offer a citation for staff lines being removed? I just checked my Durand score

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
For whatever it may be worth, I had a similar (not identical) problem with my LaserJet 5000N printer when I upgraded to FinMac 2K7. The solution turned out to be to change the printer ID in the Page Setup dialog from the name of my printer to the generic "Any Printer." Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Patterson
On 8-Mar-07, at 3:06 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: >For each beat, should the two groups of 4 32nd notes be connected by > one beam or two? I'm not sure what usual practice is here. > To me, the answer is 1 beam, because 4 32nds equals 1 8th. I always tie the groupings together by the sums of their

Re: [Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On 8-Mar-07, at 3:06 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, I've got some passages in 2/4 with running 32nd notes, and I want to break the secondary beams to make things a little clearer. For each beat, should the two groups of 4 32nd notes be connected by one beam or two? I'm not sure what us

[Finale] Broken secondary beams

2007-03-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I've got some passages in 2/4 with running 32nd notes, and I want to break the secondary beams to make things a little clearer. For each beat, should the two groups of 4 32nd notes be connected by one beam or two? I'm not sure what usual practice is here. (One beam looks clearer to m

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:48 PM, John Howell wrote: in the fixed Do system... Do is always C, Fa is always F, etc. It is a simple substitution for the letter names that we use here, although I don't know how the altered notes are labeled. Is Eb simply Mib? In the version I was taught, chromati

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 2007/03/08 / 10:20 AM wrote: >For the insanely curious, an update on my printer drama -- Ricoh >AP2610 maintenance kit did *not* fix the problem of many pages >printing too low on the page. I actually had high hopes, as the >design of the transfer roller seems to have bee

[Finale] Font for renaissance music

2007-03-08 Thread Raimund Lintzen
Dear finale power-users, does anybody know a music-font best for renaissance music? In that times (16th+17th century) have there been other signs for the rests, much different from our modern ones? Thank you. Raimund Lintzen ___ Finale mailing lis

Re: [Finale] "Unhandled exception caught"

2007-03-08 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 2007/03/08 / 01:59 PM wrote: >- Finale 2006d will run in Rosetta, at least theoretically. I have >run Fin2006d on this machine before with no problems (beyond the >standard ones with Rosetta). But now it always crashes on launch. I'm >not sure what caused the change. Dar

Re: [Finale] "Unhandled exception caught"

2007-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, the other way around this would be to install Parallels, Windows XP, and then figure out what version of Finale you want to run under it. Finale works fine under Parallels. I have to use 2006 under Parallels to make SmartMusic stuff because MakeMusic STILL hasn't updated that program to s

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey all, For the insanely curious, an update on my printer drama -- Ricoh AP2610 maintenance kit did *not* fix the problem of many pages printing too low on the page. I actually had high hopes, as the design of the transfer roller seems to have been tweaked. So I had

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On 8-Mar-07, at 12:25 PM, John Howell wrote: At 3:48 AM -0500 3/7/07, dhbailey wrote: Brennon Bortz wrote: How would that apply to harmonic structures? Is that seven notes of a melody, seven notes of chordal structures, or what? What about distinctive rhythms? :) Seems like much too gre

Re: [Finale] "Unhandled exception caught"

2007-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
John, Obviously the version makes an ENORMOUS difference. - Versions of Finale prior to Fin2004 cannot be run at all because Classic is not supported (though Robert Patterson suggested there may be unsupported workarounds to get Classic running on Intel Macs -- I have not yet looked into t

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-08 Thread John Howell
At 3:48 AM -0500 3/7/07, dhbailey wrote: Brennon Bortz wrote: How would that apply to harmonic structures? Is that seven notes of a melody, seven notes of chordal structures, or what? What about distinctive rhythms? :) Seems like much too grey an area to even dabble with. Rhythms haven'

Re: [Finale] "Unhandled exception caught"

2007-03-08 Thread John Howell
At 6:39 AM -0500 3/7/07, Phil Daley wrote: At 3/6/2007 04:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: More Mac Intel woes -- now I can't even run Finale 2006d -- it crashes on launch with the message "Unhandled exemption caught." Any ideas what is causing this? For whatever it's worth, the Director of o

Re: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Richard, I checked that. Ricoh have not updated their Mac drivers since 2004. I suppose I should check with my old Mac mini to make sure this isn't some kind of MacIntel problem. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 08 Mar 2007, at 12:21 PM, Richard Willis wrote:

RE: [Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Willis
Did you try to reinstall the printer driver? Or get an updated driver? Grabbing for straws. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darcy James Argue Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:20 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] OT: P

Re: [Finale] Forced enclosures on measure numbers

2007-03-08 Thread Christopher Smith
Further to my measure numbers quest: Of course, Robert Patterson's Copyist's Helper plugin takes care of this, and more. Whenever something like this comes up and I discover I already had the solution in front of me, it's like being hungry and out of money, but then suddenly discovering a $

RE: [Finale] Windows Vista

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Yates
Thanks, Rick. Your note prompted me to see if Behringer has Vista support for my MIDI keyboard. Not yet, so I will be waiting to upgrade. Richard >I have been using 2007 with Windows Vista for several weeks >now. It runs fast and I have had no problems at all. The place >I 'have' run into prob

[Finale] OT: Printer Registration

2007-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey all, For the insanely curious, an update on my printer drama -- Ricoh AP2610 maintenance kit did *not* fix the problem of many pages printing too low on the page. I actually had high hopes, as the design of the transfer roller seems to have been tweaked. So I had to put in another ser

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Patterson
Brennon Bortz wrote: Also, often in French beams staff lines will be removed between beams so that only white space is seen--no stems or staff lines. Could you offer a citation for staff lines being removed? I just checked my Durand scores (Ravel and Messiaen) and they do not remove staff

Re: [Finale] Windows Vista

2007-03-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/8/2007 12:05 AM, Richard Yates wrote: >Does anyone know if there are compatibility issues with Finale 2007 (and >earlier) with Windows Vista? I only know that Finale 3.7 runs perfectly on it. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley __