[Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Lawlor
[Finale 2009] Does anyone have any advice on how to produce a performing score for piano duet with the secondo part on the left page facing the primo part on the right page? Regards, Michael Lawlor ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Cecil Rigby
My solution to this for a score needed yesterday was to create two separate files, making sure that each page had the same set of measures. I made PDF's and then combined them, putting the pages in proper order before saving to a single PDF. This method saved me from having to make separate

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Timothy A. Johnson
Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet teacher confidently stated that hornists don't like key signatures;

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread dhbailey
Michael Lawlor wrote: [Finale 2009] Does anyone have any advice on how to produce a performing score for piano duet with the secondo part on the left page facing the primo part on the right page? Regards, Michael Lawlor ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Allen Fisher
Hi-- The last project I did, I did two separate files. It's really not all that bad to combine the PDFs if you have a tool like CombinePDF (easy and free) or the product that Adobe FrameMaker (not-so-easy and not free) became. On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:16 AM, dhbailey wrote: Michael Lawlor

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Randolph Peters
Michael Lawlor wrote: Does anyone have any advice on how to produce a performing score for piano duet with the secondo part on the left page facing the primo part on the right page? dhbailey replied: You've gotten good replies already -- here's my suggestion: 1) enter the music in

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 11.10.2009 Randolph Peters wrote: One quibble: the bother of having to go to PDFs and interlacing pales in comparison to the hassle (among other things) of the method listed above. Just drag and drop the PDF pages into the sidebar of Preview or Acrobat and resave the result. I agree,

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/11/2009 2:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Oct 2009 at 12:15, Randolph Peters wrote: One quibble: the bother of having to go to PDFs and interlacing pales in comparison to the hassle (among other things) of the method listed above. Just drag and drop the PDF pages into the sidebar

[Finale] OSX vs. acrobat for PDF

2009-10-11 Thread shirling neueweise
is there anything i should know about thge differences between these methods of generating PDFs that i don't already know? for example, on screen i notice the OSX stafflines are thicker than when done via acrobat (both versions print equal tihicknesses for all stafflines). there seem to be

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread shirling neueweise
something not entirely clear here, i meant for the horizontal fit, how many measures in each system by having both parts in one system. never done anything like this, but it seems to me linked parts would be great for this. score (2pno) and linked parts (each part). the score gives you an

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Chuck Israels
I am waiting (with bated breath) for Tobias to get on with his update of the tools so that we can have this function in 2010. I offered to help by encouraging him with a financial incentive, but he answered that he didn't need that, and that he was working on it. That was a month or two

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Timothy A. Johnson wrote: Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread John Howell
At 6:24 AM -0500 10/11/09, Timothy A. Johnson wrote: Horns without key signature? Why? Why not notate it as G minor? Sorry, this is not strictly Finale related, but having played the Horn for 35 years, I had not heard of such a thing until a couple weeks ago when my son's trumpet teacher

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Timothy A. Johnson
Yes, Andrew, I fully understand writing for natural horns without key signatures - and even writing for a modern valved horn without key signatures if the part is written in the key of the piece, with a simple notation that it is for horn in that key (e.g. R. Strauss' Horn concertos were written