Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:22 PM, John Howell wrote: At 8:58 PM +0200 8/5/08, Raimund Lintzen wrote: Dear listers, how would you translate to english: 2. 'sourdine' (horn + trumpet-part) "mute," but the type of mute would have to be added, and the instruction to remove it would be "open."

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread arabushk
cuivre = brass (cuirassé may indicate a fairly brassy sound) sourdine = mute(d) toujours sourdine = always mute(d) avec la main = with the hand (not sure how that relates to trumpet playing) div. par putpite = divided by stand à defaut = with the default (probably "as usual") ajr > Dear listers,

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread arabushk
"Pupitre" is literally French for "desk." I'm used to hearing it more often with regard to string players--then again, some orchestra personnel talk often refers to "first-desk men" (showing it's age with the gender bias. The manager of the Moravian Philharmonia, whose English is not always idiomat

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread John Howell
At 11:22 PM -0400 8/5/08, John Howell wrote: 5. 'div. par pupitre' "divide by stand" Interesting that two other listers translated this as "divide by desk." I have never referred to a music stand as anything but a "stand," never as a "desk." "Music desk"? It even looks weird! The Man

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread John Howell
At 8:58 PM +0200 8/5/08, Raimund Lintzen wrote: Dear listers, how would you translate to english: 1. 'cuivre' (horn-part) Not sure about the meaning. 2. 'sourdine' (horn + trumpet-part) "mute," but the type of mute would have to be added, and the instruction to remove it would be "open."

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Allen Fisher
Hey-- I resemble that remark... On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: Set it to French Horn. They are usually a quarter tone flat. :) Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello All, I'm working on piece which has a cello one quarter-tone below a violin. Is there a way to get FinMac2008b

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Set it to French Horn. They are usually a quarter tone flat. :) Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello All, I'm working on piece which has a cello one quarter-tone below a violin. Is there a way to get FinMac2008b to make the cello play a quarter-tone flat? I'm using the full GPO. **Leigh __

RE: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Guy Hayden
Cuivre means "brassy" Guy Hayden -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raimund Lintzen Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:58 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english Dear listers, how would you translat

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:42 PM 8/5/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: >1. leave it in French ("cuivré") The English would be "brassy", but Darcy is right that the French term is commonly used and understood. >5. "div. by desk", although probably just "div." is fine. Au contraire! "div." by itself usually implies d

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Raimund, 1. leave it in French ("cuivré") 2. "mute" 3. "sempre mute", or "still muted", or put it in parentheses: "(mute)" 4. "with hand" 5. "div. by desk", although probably just "div." is fine. 6. "ord." Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 5 Aug 2008, at 2:58 PM, Raimu

[Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Raimund Lintzen
Dear listers, how would you translate to english: 1. 'cuivre' (horn-part) 2. 'sourdine' (horn + trumpet-part) 3. 'toujours sourd.' (trumpet-part) 4. 'avec la main' (trumpet-part) 5. 'div. par pupitre' 6. 'a` defaut' all in a score for wind orchestra. Thank you for your help! Greetings Raimund

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Patterson
I agree that staff lists are probably not the best solution for dynamics. (I never used them for dynamics myself.) Where I see the need for removing the limit is for special group-level performance instructions or group-level tempo marks if a sub-group is moving at a different tempo. The problem i

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-05 Thread Jari Williamsson
Robert Patterson wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Jari Williamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you added a woodwind part and needed the same elsewhere, you could copy the expressions from an existing woodwind staff. Now you are just rationalizing. Clearly for this case a staff set wou

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Smith
From a guy who has spent 30 years directing marching bands: Ya gotta be kiddin'!! RGS Richard Yates wrote: FORTY part choral piece ...? My curiosity is piqued ... what is it? Presumably the famous (and very good) "Spem in alium nunquam habui" of Thomas Tallis. I'm not sure how you c

Re(2): [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Leigh Daniels
Thanks, Darcy! That did it! **Leigh On Tue, Aug 5, 2008, Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >GPO Notation instruments are supposed to transpose 12 semitones up >when the pitchwheel is set to 8191, and 12 semitones down when the >pitchwheel is set to -8192. (In earlier versions, som

[Finale] Quartertone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Wolf
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:54:20 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pitchwheel alterations last until cancelled (as I said in my followup post). Cheers, - Darcy The one addition to Finale for which I would give up an eyetooth is a pitchwheel table attached to each possibility in a non-standa

RE: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Yates
>> FORTY part choral piece ...? My curiosity is piqued ... what is it? > >Presumably the famous (and very good) "Spem in alium nunquam >habui" of Thomas Tallis. I'm not sure how you could transcribe >it for band without losing the stereo effects that make a big >part of its effect. Andrew Stil

Re: [Finale] Resize tool for systems inoperative in 2009?

2008-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, Oh, okay. I misunderstood. To clear a selected length of a longer Staff Style, you can set up an an iKey (as I have always done -- I'm not sure if I even knew there was already a built-in shortcut), or use the contextual menu. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 61, Issue 7

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Wolf
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:54:20 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List-- I am re-working some things that I did many years ago for my portfolio. I have some fonts picked out for use in these documents, but I have a question. Do you tend to use 1 font or 2+? Serif vs. sans-serif? I alwa

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Smith
Without revealing too much, I'm thinking in of breaking the band into 8 choirs with semi-antiphonal seating around the stage and front of the hall as well as a good deal of pitched percussion (including handbells) to vary the sound of each choir. Like I said, I'm planning but have no group to p

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread M LAWLOR
Or Striggio's "Ecce beatem lucem", on which Tallis' "Spem in alium" was based as a demonstration of what the Catholic church could do, so too could the new Church of England. Regards, Michael Lawlor - Original Message - Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:53:12 -0400 From: Andrew Still

Re: [Finale] Resize tool for systems inoperative in 2009?

2008-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
Darcy, That deletes the entire bar for it's unbroken length, not just the selected measure (or part of a measure.) That was the great function that the Clear key had before. I would typically apply slash notation to the whole staff, then clear out a bar or two or a beat or two here and th

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: FORTY part choral piece ...? My curiosity is piqued ... what is it? Presumably the famous (and very good) "Spem in alium nunquam habui" of Thomas Tallis. I'm not sure how you could transcribe it for band without losing the stereo effects

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-05 Thread Barbara Touburg
Andrew Stiller wrote: See Bach, WTC fugue XXII, for example. Once i had to engrave a piece for organ. It had longs chords of 4, 5, sometimes 6 notes, gradually shifting to other chords, one note at a time. I wished we could have 6 layers! _

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 3, 2008, at 6:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I have once encountered a need to go above 4 layers. I don't remember the context. I eventually worked around it, but everytime I subsequently wanted to make changes to this, it was a pain. I never thought much about it, as it was q

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
The pitchwheel range is NOT 0-127 or -64 to 63. (It wouldn't be very useful if it was.) The range is -8192 (down all the way) to 8191 (up all the way). GPO Notation instruments are supposed to transpose 12 semitones up when the pitchwheel is set to 8191, and 12 semitones down when the pit

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Allen Fisher
IIRC, pitch bend goes from -8192 to 8192 with 0 being normal. On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:11 AM, dhbailey wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the Notation instruments, the maximum pitchbend range (check the Finale do

Re: [Finale] Resize tool for systems inoperative in 2009?

2008-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, Select the STAFF STYLE (the horizontal stripe above the measure) -- not the measure -- and hit the delete key. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 5 Aug 2008, at 9:52 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: But as for Staff Styles, the Delete key clears the measure cont

Re: [Finale] Resize tool for systems inoperative in 2009?

2008-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 31, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 31 Jul 2008, at 6:05 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: I'm still pissed that clearing Staff Styles (in the Staff Tool) Use the delete key. and measure contents (in the former Mass Edit tool) Use the delete key (unless a measure stack

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the Notation instruments, the maximum pitchbend range (check the Finale documentation for the number) should result in a shift of 12 semitones up (+) or down (-) . So your expression

Re: [Finale] Garritan jazz sounds: Are you satisfied?

2008-08-05 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2008/08/03(日), at 後2:44, Darcy James Argue wrote: I am talking about Finale's Setup Wizard. The JABB instruments are loaded via the Kontakt Player, which comes with JABB. Sorry I wasn't clear. My question was that: If you install Finale after Garritan commercial package, they won't s