Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread 73357.3046
o;?And while we're about it, what about E Power Biggs' pedal harpsichord ? -- Original Message -- From: John Howell john.how...@vt.edu To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re:

Re: [Finale] OT: no early music in Wikipedia!

2009-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
The German Wikipedia has most of them, one or two are missing. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and new Mac Snow Leopard OS...update

2009-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.09.2009 Martin Banner wrote: Amen, hence my initial post about the compatibility of Finale 2008. After years of using (quite happily) Finale 2003, I finally upgraded to 2008 two years ago. Plus I bought a 24 iMac. Kinda sad that I won't be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard since I plan to

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and new Mac Snow Leopard OS...update

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
There is that, but if TGTools is not going to be updated then that would be a deal breaker for meTGTools is essential for me to continue to use Finale... On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 03.09.2009 Martin Banner wrote: Amen, hence my initial post about

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2009 at 8:17, 73357.3...@compuserve.com wrote: what about E Power Biggs' pedal harpsichord ? What about it? Mozart owned a pedal fortepiano, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were pedal harpsichords at the time. Biggs was a big promoter of Flentrop, the Dutch maker of tracker

[Finale] Quickeys Snow Leopard (Mac)

2009-09-04 Thread Randolph Peters
I still find Quickeys to be an essential tool and that's especially true with Finale. (It is slightly less important now that Apple's customizable keyboard commands work so well.) If you are using Quickeys 4 with Snow Leopard, at this time there are incompatibilities that stop Quickeys

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Sep 2009 at 8:17, 73357.3...@compuserve.com wrote: what about E Power Biggs' pedal harpsichord ? What about it? Mozart owned a pedal fortepiano, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were pedal harpsichords at the time. Biggs was a big promoter of Flentrop, the

Re: [Finale] Quickeys Snow Leopard (Mac)

2009-09-04 Thread Funky Bear Music
The beta seems to be working well. No problems on my end so far. Jeff Tanner Funky Bear Music www.funkybearmusic.com On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Randolph Peters wrote: I still find Quickeys to be an essential tool and that's especially true with Finale. (It is slightly less important

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2009 at 13:57, dhbailey wrote: Certainly the start of the quoted blurb seems to indicate that the people who put the webpage up thought it would have been common during the Baroque. Just Googling around, I found these tidbits: 1. Bach's estate included a pedal clavichord:

[Finale] no pitchwheel

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I created a file back in FinMac 2K2 that had quartertones defined for playback as pitchwheel alterations. Now I find that under OS 10.3.9, these alterations do not play back in either 2K4 or 2K7. What can I do to get them back? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/

[Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, Is there a boilerplate sheet music rental license available online anywhere I could take a look at? I never thought I'd be in a situation where I would want to license my music for a specific performance only, but there's a trumpet player in my band who wants to perform one of my

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
Solve the problem by setting the licensing fee at $70. Mark the score each part with an expiration date for the rental license. Will cost you some work, but should teach the band a lesson. If they like the music, they will have to buy it from you once more. Klaus --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Darcy

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Klaus, They aren't willing to pay a rental fee at all! Obviously, if it weren't for the fact that a player in my band really wants to perform this piece in the competition, I would not be sending them the music. I may take the trouble to watermark the score and parts, though, as you

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Chuck Israels
How do these people think composers are supposed to survive? Nuts! Chuck On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Klaus, They aren't willing to pay a rental fee at all! Obviously, if it weren't for the fact that a player in my band really wants to perform this piece in

Re: [Finale] Copying guitar tab

2009-09-04 Thread Mark McCarron
in the items to copy box you can specify Notehead , accidental and tablature string alterations Mark McCarron --- On Thu, 9/3/09, Stephen Lamb jstephenl...@jslweb.com wrote: From: Stephen Lamb jstephenl...@jslweb.com Subject: [Finale] Copying guitar tab To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Thursday,

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread arabushk
Didn't you know that that's why God gave us computers? So that composers could have jobs! How do these people think composers are supposed to survive? Nuts! Chuck On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Klaus, They aren't willing to pay a rental fee at all! Obviously,

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: How do these people think composers are supposed to survive? Nuts! Remember, it's not the Army Band who is asking for the music, but rather the competition organizers. Why aren't they paying for the music? The other person person who is participating in the

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread dhbailey
arabu...@cowtown.net wrote: Didn't you know that that's why God gave us computers? So that composers could have jobs! Q. What's a performance major say? A. Would you like fries with that? -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread terry cano
I'm not much up on this subject but if you own it and it is published by you you get royalities on any performance correct? May not be big bucks though. You could write up the document for one time performance yourself it would be very straight forward Terry

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Chuck Israels
On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:37 PM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: How do these people think composers are supposed to survive? Nuts! Remember, it's not the Army Band who is asking for the music, but rather the competition organizers. Why aren't they paying for the music? The other

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Terry, If I were a classical composer, I would (theoretically) get BMI or ASCAP royalties on all live performances. Because I'm a jazz composer, I get nada -- at least, for US performances. What's especially galling is that venues like the Jazz Gallery still have to pay for BMI and

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Darcy ... I'm just curious ... have you published any pieces, and if so, have any been bought? If so, I assume you have received, or will receive your 10 or whatever percent of said sales. Dean On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Terry, If I were a classical

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Dean, Some of my pieces are published via Really Good Music, the rest I self- publish. But that's got nothing to do with live performance royalties from BMI or ASCAP! Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 4 Sep 2009, at 7:12 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Darcy

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread dhbailey
terry cano wrote: I'm not much up on this subject but if you own it and it is published by you you get royalities on any performance correct? May not be big bucks though. You could write up the document for one time performance yourself it would be very straight forward Terry I believe the

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi David, It's a jazz trumpet competition, so no band -- military or not -- would ever pay any performance royalties for a performance of a jazz work. That just doesn't happen. The venue -- a university theatre -- is still responsible for paying royalties to ASCAP and BMI, but that money

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Issues

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You must be joking right? Apple is certainly not heading towards a system registry like Windows. And all it's DLL mess. Or all the virus problems. Or malware. Or security issues. I suggest you check out roughlydrafted.com and enlighten yourself. Or just to debunk some of the things Windows

Re: Re(2): [Finale] Finale 2008 and new Mac Snow Leopard OS...update

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
No no, TGTools needs to be where it is. I'd rather have Tobias take his time and make sure it works before updating. Can you imagine MakeMusic breaking something in TGTools, and then NOT fixing it until Finale 2011.forget that! On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote: I

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Christopher Smith
I can't imagine how that would be true. ALL compositions are supposed to be eligible to get royalties, no matter what the style, as it isn't up to ASCAP or BMI to make any kind of judgement about that at all. If you were a classical composer and one of your works was performed in a club,

[Finale] OT: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Issues

2009-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
In regard to our recent discussion of the old delete your preferences file troubleshooting trick for Finale users on Mac, I was just reading Ars Technica's fascinating review of Snow Leopard and came across this: Images are PNGs or JPEGs, audio is AAC, video is MPEG-4, even preference

Re(2): [Finale] Finale 2008 and new Mac Snow Leopard OS...update

2009-09-04 Thread Leigh Daniels
I consider TGTools essential, too. Especially the Transfer Layout tool for parts. I wrote Tobias a few weeks back and he said there would be an update soon. If MakeMusic were smart (big if), they would just buy TGTools from Tobias and continue to update them along with Finale. Can Sibelius copy a

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, Believe me, I have talked to the people at SOCAN about this multiple times. I've talked to BMI (my US affiliate) as well as a number of US- based jazz composers. I have always gotten the same answer: BMI and ASCAP do not compensate composers for live performances of non-

Re: [Finale] Henle engraving video

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Moschou
It looks like it is still there: http://www.henle.de/index.cfm?open=04lang=en Andrew 2009/9/5 mu...@rgsmithmusic.com: A couple of years ago, there was a video from Henle that showed the process of engraving music on lead plates for offset press. It seems the video is no longer available from

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Issues

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Dennis huh? Hmmm...and whom was talking about reading comprehension? Apple is buying itself the same kind of problem here that Microsoft had with early implementations of the System Registry Not sure how you can make the quantum leap from Apple compressing files to Windows

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Issues

2009-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2009 at 20:27, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Dennis huh? Hmmm...and whom was talking about reading comprehension? I apologize for calling you Dennis -- I don't know how that happened, given that I recall when I wrote the line I thought I'd better look at his name and distinctly remember

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread John Howell
Pedal harpsichords existed in C18, although they were comparatively rare, and served more as parctice instruments for organists. They were separate instruments designed to be place on the floor under a regular harpsichord. Some had connections to the upper instrument so the strings could be

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2009 at 11:17, John Howell wrote: I don't know what Biggs played, but I'd guess it was one of the German factory models which were the only things available for quite a while, and were heavily marketed to their niche market. While googling this earlier today, I encountered a