RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread Owain Sutton
> > And I'm *still* not sure I grok what's going on in your Ferneyhough > example. Let me try again: > > You've got two notes of equal length in the 2/10 bar -- never mind > what to call them. Each note gets one beat. The tempo > indication says > e=68. Does the tempo indication mean *the

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Owain, On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:36 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: incompleteness of tuplets, using the names for note durations that actually tell you how long the notes are. What struck me immediately is Owain

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
$On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: > guys, really, get over it. this music is playable It's notational abominations that bother me. Granted, it's an old notation system being twisted to do things it wasn't designed for, so that's bound to result in nasty things. But then wh

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: > noone faults > richter for playing insane amounts of wrong notes Er, yes, many people do -- I do, for one. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___

Re: [Finale] OT - HP 500 duplexer - how to search list archives? (sending again--sent over 7 hours ago)

2008-03-24 Thread Bob Morabito
Hi Chuck-- Two places to search: http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/finale@shsu.edu/topic.html http://www.mail-archive.com/finale@shsu.edu/ Hope this helps-- Bob Morabito On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, Some time ago there was mention of a repair kit for the d

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Mar 2008 at 12:16, shirling & neueweise wrote: > late mozart string quartet Your argument would be helped if you didn't repeatedly use this vastly ignorant turn of phrase. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Mar 2008 at 3:31, shirling & neueweise wrote: > even as far back as chopin we have examples of tuplet values which do > not necessarily have a clear-cut, unquestionable relationship to the > metre (22:6/8, for example, or 5-lets in cadences that REALLY do NOT > function like quintuplets i

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 08.3.23 / 6:36 PM wrote: >Notational convenience, nothing more. The Brazillians wrote their >bossa novas in 2/4, but all those sixteenth note syncopations were >hard for American jazz musicians to read, so we renotated them into >cut time. Doesn't make any difference to h

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:18 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever heard or would understand such a term. oops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet Okay, s

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2008-03-24 Thread Bob Morabito
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RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Owain Sutton
> there is a whole generation of musicians who have grown up > with the possibility of performing his music, and learning it from > people who had to "figure it out'" themselves. > I could not agree more. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu ht

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Regarding my suggestion of the solution to the puzzle Darcy posed by changing key signatures, it occurs to me that to make this to work, at the point the key signatures change, the tempo also needs to change so that the dotted quarter of the 12/8 bars equals the quarter of the 4/4 bars. ns __

Re: [Finale] how to search list archives? Blue Flash

2008-03-24 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Thanks John, I've been through the archives too, but can't find anything - the subject line could well be something completely different. I don't use Internet Explorer and it wasn't on the machine on which I first had the problem. I do remember that it was something unusual that caused the

Re: [Finale] how to search list archives? Blue Flash

2008-03-24 Thread John Blane
Lawrence - I was trying to find this for you but could not. The problem, as I recall, relates to Internet Explorer version 7. Either uninstalling it and/or changing versions seemed to work for people. Good luck! On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2

RE: [Finale] (was Partial tuplets in Finale) now the state of musicin academia

2008-03-24 Thread Stu McIntire
> > My theory (and I really miss being able to discuss it with Andrew) is > > that the return to simplicity and melody in the early 20th century was > > in reaction to the increasing complexity of late romantic harmony, and > > that 20th century American popular music was and is the result of that

[Finale] how to search list archives? Blue Flash

2008-03-24 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 24/03/2008 20:57:16 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that the archives are separated by month and year, and I have no idea how long ago this thread was. Any ideas? I have a similar problem regarding the blue triangular flash which, for some rea

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2008, at 5:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: That'd be no deal, anyway - they're not 'quaint', just historically-informed :p So historically-informed, in fact, that you insist on calling the note *without* a hook a "crotchet." Even the French, from whence you stole the word, get this on

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In the origin post for a moment, wherein Darcy asked about "another way", which question I have not seen an answer to: I set out to recreate the brief example from Michael Gordon's "Trance" (great piece, BTW) in Finale -- with correct playback -- and quickly hit a brick wall. The rhythm is (

[Finale] OT - HP 500 duplexer - how to search list archives?

2008-03-24 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi all, Some time ago there was mention of a repair kit for the duplexer for the HP 5000 printer. I remember navigating to the page on the HP site where this kit was listed and seeing it there. (Should have bookmarked the page! Experience is a hard teacher; first the test; then the less

Re: [Finale] (was Partial tuplets in Finale) now the state of music in academia

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Horton
John Howell wrote: My theory (and I really miss being able to discuss it with Andrew) is that the return to simplicity and melody in the early 20th century was in reaction to the increasing complexity of late romantic harmony, and that 20th century American popular music was and is the resul

Re: [Finale] (was Partial tuplets in Finale)

2008-03-24 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: [snip]> I can agree with that, certainly, but it isn't really the right starting point. That starting point has to be the simple question, "what is there about this music that will make it worth the time and effort to learn to play it?" (Or sing it, which is an order of mag

Re: [Finale] (was Partial tuplets in Finale)

2008-03-24 Thread John Howell
At 8:40 PM +0100 3/23/08, shirling & neueweise wrote: but in case you don't want to take my word for it, check out arditti's site (as only one example), check out just how much this music is being performed around the world and compare it to even 10 yrs ago. there is a whole generation of mu

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread shirling & neueweise
What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever heard or would understand such a term. oops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet ___ Finale mailing list Fin

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Owain, On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:36 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: incompleteness of tuplets, using the names for note durations that actually tell you how long the notes are. What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuple

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread shirling & neueweise
As for the rest of your post, I wish you wouldn't give me credit for saying things I'm not saying. darcy, my apologies if that came across as a personal attack, it wasn't menat that way, it was an attack on the argument itself, because it is more often than not the only thing that people can