[Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Good Day: In an effort to make my own editions of vocal music better, a friend suggested I look at Barenreiter's Bach and Telemann editions. I was bowled over with the elegance and roomy spacing, but I'm curious if they typeset using computer software, or do they still do that the old fashioned wa

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 8:34 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at the cpebach.org catalog site, and they don't seem > particularly special, nothing most of us here couldn't do just as well > in Finale. > > Maybe we're just getting good? :) That makes you wonder: why didn't th

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Kim Patrick Clow: Well, I was looking at Barenreiter's recent additions to the Telemann series, all of them published within the last 4 years I think (there are two vols of cantatas, one in particular with Advent cantatas). Here's a screenshot: http://www.telemann-magdeburg.de/download/noten/35-1

RE: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Fisher, Allen
That looks like SCORE. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Patrick Clow Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:07 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it? On Jan 29, 2008 6:58 AM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 6:58 AM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But then, most of their Bach and Telemann editions are > already rather old, so they probably were indeed hand-engraved. Could you > post a few sample pages somewhere of what looks so good? Well, I was looking at Barenreiter's recent addition

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On 29-Jan-08, at 8:36 AM, dc wrote: Trent Johnston écrit: I've been using this program the last year and the results are incredible. ... For more SCORE samples check out the new CPE Bach edition tiltles to order they have several sample pages. I had a quick look, and don't see what's so

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 2:53 PM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure I'd trust what some guy tells you some other guy says to yet some > other guy. But then, if Score is so great, why did they abandon it? Anyway, > Sibelius certainly can't claim to produce better looking scores than Finale > (though i

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Barbara Touburg
I've saved them. You can find them at home/wanadoo.nl/btouburg/finale/study.zip. dc wrote: All this reminds me of an engraving contest held quite a few years ago, and where all the best entries proved to have been done in Finale. Since it was intended to show the superiority of Score, the resu

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On 29-Jan-08, at 11:34 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: P.S. I wonder how Score handles hyphenation for lyrics, that seems to be the big bugaboo for music engraving software. Actually, in the Finale 2008a update, I find the hyphens quite usable! Sometimes they touch the word when tightened up to

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: Kim Patrick Clow écrit: The owner of the Score software said Barenreiter switched to Sibelius in 2005/2006, he found this out directly from a Barenreiter offical. They definitely do not use Finale. Not sure I'd trust what some guy tells you some other guy says to yet some other g

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Barbara Touburg
Yes. Williams, Jim wrote: home.wanadoo.nl ?? (period after home, not slash) yes? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 3:34 PM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what prevents anyone from using an old version of Windows, even if it's > not supported by MS? It's very easy to install a older version on a virtual > machine. And I thought Score was a DOS based-program? I think the main > problem with

RE: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Yates
SCORE engravers claim to be superfast (once they spend the necessary years of apprenticeship memorizing hundreds of number codes). > And the >question is why do engravers use Score? I think it's an almost >religious question... >Dennis ___ Finale mail

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread dhbailey
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 8:34 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked at the cpebach.org catalog site, and they don't seem particularly special, nothing most of us here couldn't do just as well in Finale. Maybe we're just getting good? :) That makes you wo

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 2:07 PM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kim Patrick Clow écrit: > >Or why does Barenreiter use Score? > > From what we've been told here, Bärenreiter also uses Sibelius. And no one > can say they don't use Finale. So perhaps Bärenreiter uses whatever their > engravers use. And the

Re: [Finale] OT: Boot Camp - Windows questions

2008-01-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Jan 2008 at 1:28, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Anyway, based on your comments and Robert's, I went ahead and re- > installed Windows (for the THIRD time), this time reformatting my > partition for NTFS. (BTW, I am really starting to hate how many > updates I need to download via Windows U

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Trent Johnston
This looks like very much like SCORE. I've been using this program the last year and the results are incredible. Barenreiter have also been using Sibelius but apparently using an in house font. The complete Bach cantata collection (the 19 volume set) has the newly discovered aria included whic

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Trent Johnston
Score is a long way from being dead. Carus Verlag are using Score. David Bray - Head of Publishing at Boosey and Hawkes has made it very clear on numerous occasions that they are not going to abandon Score. The new CPE Complete which only started a couple of years ago is also using Score. Why d

RE: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Williams, Jim
home.wanadoo.nl ?? (period after home, not slash) yes? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Barbara Touburg Sent: Tue 29-Jan-08 15:38 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it? I've saved them. You can find them at home/wan

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 3:38 PM, Barbara Touburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My my, the Score files didn't rank high in that contest. But to be fair, that's not the quality of Score work I've seen in the Barenreiter New Bach Edition, which was definitely better than the CPE Bach edition examples as well

RE: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Yates
Thank you, thank you, Barbara! I thought those were long gone. Richard Yates (aka Claude C. LaRisse) >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Barbara Touburg >Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:33 PM >To: finale@shsu.edu >Subject: Re: [Finale]

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Darcy James Argue
In my experience, Score users are insufferable. They have spent so many years mastering the ins and outs of such an arcane and difficult program that they have an developed an enormous emotional investment in believing in and proselytizing for the innate superiority of Score. They get especia

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Barbara Touburg
Richard Yates wrote: Thank you, thank you, Barbara! I thought those were long gone. You're very welcome. Those files have been sitting there all this time and have survived a number of system crashes! :) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu htt

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Jan 2008 at 15:25, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > Score works only on older > versions of Windows (not supported by MS), so that's the reason they had > to move over to Sibelius. Is that true? Yes, it's a DOS program, but I've seen it running in a DOS window under Win95, and think it unlikely i

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread John Howell
At 8:34 AM -0500 1/29/08, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Kim Patrick Clow: Well, I was looking at Barenreiter's recent additions to the Telemann series, all of them published within the last 4 years I think (there are two vols of cantatas, one in particular with Advent cantatas). Here's a screensho

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Jan 2008 at 15:47, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 3:34 PM, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But what prevents anyone from using an old version of Windows, even if > > it's not supported by MS? It's very easy to install a older version on a > > virtual machine. And I thought Sc

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Jan 29, 2008 6:49 PM, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe they are mistaken. There is nothing that I know of that would prevent Score from running under the most current versions of Windows (though it might require some tweaking of compatibility settings). Here's what I was to

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jan 2008 at 15:25, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Score works only on older versions of Windows (not supported by MS), so that's the reason they had to move over to Sibelius. Is that true? Yes, it's a DOS program, but I've seen it running in a DOS window under Win95, an

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Jan 2008 at 19:16, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2008 at 15:25, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > > > >> Score works only on older > >> versions of Windows (not supported by MS), so that's the reason they had > >> to move over to Sibelius. > > > > Is that true? Yes, it's a

[Finale] Shifted rests

2008-01-29 Thread Steven Gruver
I have a 4-staff trumpet quartet and noticed that from mm95 to the end (mm200) in Staff 1 there was a sixteenth rest that got inserted which caused all of the notes to be shifted over. Is there a way to just delete that one sixteenth rest without affecting all of the other staves? _

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Trent Johnston
Again I think the issue is the stability not so much the program but file format. Yes there has it's been a long time between versions but from the earliest to the newest versions of Score the file format hasn't changed. Because Score is basically a musical database each item has it's own para

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Bob Morabito
home.wanadoo.nl/btouburg/finale/study.zip On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 PM, dc wrote: home/wanadoo.nl/btouburg/finale/study.zip ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
You can do some nice stuff in Finale. I had an emergency engraving job for a fellow composer -- 22 pages to do in about a week, including parts. The whole deal took 87 hours. Long week. Here are two pages ... all the notation conventions (including the detached noteheads for harmonics) as well

Re: [Finale] Shifted rests

2008-01-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 29, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Steven Gruver wrote: I have a 4-staff trumpet quartet and noticed that from mm95 to the end (mm200) in Staff 1 there was a sixteenth rest that got inserted which caused all of the notes to be shifted over. Is there a way to just delete that one sixteenth rest

{Fraud?} {Disarmed} Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
Dennis - Absolutely gorgeous work.Truly impressive, and especially so considering the time constraint. As one who's both loved and despised Finale's angels and demons for the past decade, my hat is off to you.In fact: I'm so dazzled, I briefly considered shaving my head beneath the

Re: {Fraud?} {Disarmed} Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread Ray Horton
Exquisite, Dennis. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist Louisville Orchestra Composer, Arranger From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it? You can do some nice stuff in Finale. I had an

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Jan 2008 at 12:20, Trent Johnston wrote: > BTW It doesn't take that long to work with score. Back in the day when I saw Score demonstrated to me by people who knew how to use it, I quickly noticed that Score is a quintessential example of the principle that EASE OF LEARNING and EASE OF US

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-29 Thread shirling & neueweise
jumping randomly into the discussion... having read almost none of the thread (this time)... software doesn't make scores, people use software to make scores. i've spoken to publishers who at first didn't think some of the stuff i did was possible with finale, while i found nothing abnormal

Re: [Finale] Shifted rests

2008-01-29 Thread arabushk
> I have a 4-staff trumpet quartet and noticed that from mm95 to the end > (mm200) in Staff 1 there was a sixteenth rest that got inserted which > caused all of the notes to be shifted over. Is there a way to just delete > that one sixteenth rest without affecting all of the other staves? > __