RE: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread John Howell
At 3:56 PM -0800 1/28/10, Lee Actor wrote: The solo repertoire for "classical" saxophone is indeed on the thin side; furthermore, even the best of this repertoire (e.g., Ibert, Glazunov. etc.) tends toward a lighter or less serious treatment (for lack of a better term) than composers often use wh

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Not wild about the term "art music," even if it is used in scare quotes. But there are lots of great classical saxophonists now who are certainly up to the fiercest challenges of contemporary classical music. Brian Sacawa, for one: http://www.briansacawa.com However, Chuck raises an important p

RE: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Lee Actor
The solo repertoire for "classical" saxophone is indeed on the thin side; furthermore, even the best of this repertoire (e.g., Ibert, Glazunov. etc.) tends toward a lighter or less serious treatment (for lack of a better term) than composers often use when writing concertos for other instruments.

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 28 Jan 2010 at 17:45, Chuck Israels wrote: These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the existence of a number o

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the existence of a number of fine players in that style, that favoring that styl

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'm not skepticalI've seen it work and not work. It isn't a huge deal to fix though, and if worst comes to worse you can just create a new user and get all your stuff move to that.except that generally you lose some preferences, but it isn't a huge issue. Like the 10.4 to 10.5 upgr

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread David W. Fenton
On 28 Jan 2010 at 17:45, Chuck Israels wrote: > These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have > bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little > significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the > existence of a number of fine players in

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Randolph Peters
Because I had problems with Migration Assistant going from PPC to Intel, I did some research online and found that there was indeed quite a lot of discussion about the issue. It works without flaw for many, but others, such as myself, found that the program would hang. The main solvable problem

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Having suffered through a college degree to get a major in saxophone performance, we studied classical music only in lessons. There is a lot of repertoire out there for it. Plus a lot of the Oboe repertoire has been arranged for saxophone as well. Then there is the whole quartet aspect. And the

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Chuck Israels
These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the existence of a number of fine players in that style, that favoring that style in music depart

Re: [Finale] Finale Productivity 5.0.1

2010-01-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Many of Bill's fonts never worked correctly with OS X. The problem was only with specific character slots (cmd-opt-2, for instance). If you never use the glyphs at those spots then you wouldn't encounter the problems, but if you did need those glyphs, until now you were out of luck. Bill origin

Re: [Finale] Finale Productivity 5.0.1

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Hopefully it will be really reasonably priced (as in like $20). I mean, the fonts work fine for me as they are (Mac 10.6, latest Finale).so.what would be the incentive to upgrade them? On 1/27/10 2:04 PM, n...@npcimaging.com wrote: It's in the bookstore. Here's the direct link... ht

Re: [Finale] O.T. iPads/Kindles/Electronic books for music editions?

2010-01-28 Thread dhbailey
Blake Richardson wrote: From: "Dean M. Estabrook" Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:32:36 -0800 To: Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. iPads/Kindles/Electronic books for music editions? I've wondered the same thing myself. I say it won't be long before an ensemble will be playing with E books in

Re: Re: [Finale] O.T. iPads/Kindles/Electronic books for music editions?

2010-01-28 Thread Blake Richardson
From: "Dean M. Estabrook" Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:32:36 -0800 To: Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. iPads/Kindles/Electronic books for music editions? > I've wondered the same thing myself. I say it won't be long before > an ensemble will be playing with E books in front of them instead o

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jef, Just use the Migration Assistant. Choose your options sensibly and it will almost certainly be fine. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com On 28 Jan 2010, at 4:22 PM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > it's definitely PPC > >> The first Mac Mini was PPC, but all the rest

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread SN jef chippewa
it's definitely PPC The first Mac Mini was PPC, but all the rest were based on Intel chips, so I would check that before you start. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, that isn't true. It might hiccup for some, it worked fine when I went from a G4 Mac Mini to an Intel iMac. But it didn't go so well with my G4 tower to MacPro. Basically, the permissions got screwed up, and after many back and forths with Apple, we simply created a new account and I moved all

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Randolph Peters
There are known issues going from a PPC Mac to an Intel Mac. Migration Assistant won't work properly in this case. You would have to transfer most things manually. (And by all means, use the Target Disk Mode!) The first Mac Mini was PPC, but all the rest were based on Intel chips, so I would ch

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Actually, on a new Mac, the Migration Assistant will run automatically when you first power it on. It will guide you through all of the necessary steps. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com On 28 Jan 2010, at 1:20 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Generally, things are easily tr

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: I have always thought the classical music of the saxophone is what Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker played, and that music departments that don't recognize that are failing to see the world as it is - to almost everyone's detriment. While that's true, si

[Finale] RE: Classical saxophone

2010-01-28 Thread Froom, David
At 11:58 AM -0500 1/28/10, Chuck Israels wrote: >I have always thought the classical music of the saxophone is what >Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker played, and that >music departments that don't recognize that are failing to see the >world as it is - to almost everyone's detriment

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
"abso-freakin-lutely." I love it in the Army, I quickly became used to the insertion of four-letter words between standard syllables. It became an art form. Thanks for the memories ... Dean On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Ray Horton wrote: abso-freakin-lutely Canto ergo sum And,

Re: [Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Generally, things are easily transferred between a new mac and an old one. You just boot the old mac into target disk mode (reboot it and hold down the T key). Then use the Migration assistant, and you are set. Having transferred many Macs over the years, you do get the occasional problem now

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread John Howell
At 11:58 AM -0500 1/28/10, Chuck Israels wrote: I have always thought the classical music of the saxophone is what Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker played, and that music departments that don't recognize that are failing to see the world as it is - to almost everyone's detriment

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Chuck Israels
I have always thought the classical music of the saxophone is what Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker played, and that music departments that don't recognize that are failing to see the world as it is - to almost everyone's detriment. Chuck Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 201

[Finale] Lunga

2010-01-28 Thread Howey, Henry
I just noticed that Sibelius has one. I've made them as a visual, but this seems a no-brainer for Finale to provide. Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/music/faculty/howey.php Owner of FINALE D

Re: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
dc wrote: Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time where some of the beats use the typical rhythm of a 12/8 time sig: dotted 8th + 16th + 8th in the value of a quarter note. So I define use a tuplet with "1 dotted quarter in the space of 1 quarter", and I get my three notes. But

Re: [Finale] OT Novice Question

2010-01-28 Thread Ray Horton
John Howell wrote: At 11:55 PM -0500 1/27/10, Ray Horton wrote: Really, now, how many "legit' sax players do you have around V. Tech, anyway? Most of them. Our sax professor is straight classical, and when we had a jazz sax teacher on the faculty (whom we lost during the first state budge

Re: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Smith
Richard, that is it! For some reason this didn't work the last time I tried this (the beamlet changed length), but it works perfectly in 2010! This can be copied from measure to measure as well, so if it shows up many times, Dennis can just copy the edit without the notes. Great! Christophe

Re: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/28/2010 9:08 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Oh yeah, I know what you are talking about. I have complained about this bitterly, and the guys at MakeMusic don't even seem to understand the problem. I know that I reported this as long ago as 12/2003. I have a reply from them on 1/5/2004 in whi

Re: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Hans Swinnen
From the Quick Help: Special tools, select the Broken Beam Then click in the app. maes. the handle to change the broken beam direction (left or right). Hans Op 28-jan-10, om 14:42 heeft dc het volgende geschreven: Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time where some of

Re: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Smith
Oh yeah, I know what you are talking about. I have complained about this bitterly, and the guys at MakeMusic don't even seem to understand the problem. Please, if you can make it more clear to them, do so. I never was able to come up with a procedure for switching the side that the beamlet

RE: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Yates
If you must use a tuplet instead of a time signature of 12/8 as four dotted wuaters, then you have to use the Broken Beam Tool to switch the sixteenth beamlet to the other side. > Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time > where some of the beats use the typical rhythm of a 12/8

RE: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Yates
Is your 12/8 not set up in the Time Signature dialog box as 4 dotted quarters? Also, your jpg link is broken. Richard Yates > Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time > where some of the beats use the typical rhythm of a 12/8 time > sig: dotted 8th + 16th + 8th in the value o

[Finale] F2010 moving from OSX.4 to now

2010-01-28 Thread SN jef chippewa
any issues i should be aware of in moving from mac mini OSX.4.11 to macbook pro with... um whatever member of the cat family they are currently running? getting my first laptop tomorrow and am hoping to minimize time spent adjusting... since i'm in the middle of a big job.