Re: [Finale] repeat?

2010-05-30 Thread Ryan Beard
I think it means that those two bars are repeated. I've seen this marking before, though I don't recall in which pieces, but I'm fairly certain they were keyboard works. Since it's a chaconne, would repeating those bars greatly distrupt the ground, or does it serve to prolong the cadence

Re: [Finale] iMac i7 issues?

2010-05-30 Thread Eric Fiedler
Hi Chuck and Eric D., Thanks for the input. Chuck: it's good to hear that your core i5 is doing the job for you. We've been looking at i5s too, and will probably go that route, as they are easier to get over here and are a little less expensive than the i7s. Eric D.: My concerns were based

Re: [Finale] iMac i7 issues?

2010-05-30 Thread Eric Dannewitz
No gotchas. Just good stuff. As for MakeMusic testing stuff.who knows On May 30, 2010, at 1:45 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: Hi Chuck and Eric D., Thanks for the input. Chuck: it's good to hear that your core i5 is doing the job for you. We've been looking at i5s too, and will probably

Re: [Finale] indication of hands in keyboard music

2010-05-30 Thread Chris Bell
As a pianist/keyboardist I would feel confused by both of them. 1 I don't like the broken 16ths 2 I really don't like being told which hand to use, if you really need to put any insication in I would go for fingering . . . but then again . . / Cb On May 29, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Ray Horton

Re: [Finale] disappearing clef

2010-05-30 Thread Aaron Rabushka
Hey Daniel! Thanks for the tip--unfortunately I do not see the SET TO CLEF option under STAFF ATTRIBUTES--must be something added post-2003. Aaron J. Rabushka arabus...@austin.rr.com - Original Message - From: DANIEL CARNO dcar...@twcny.rr.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, May

RE: [Finale] indication of hands in keyboard music

2010-05-30 Thread Guy Hayden
This morning I played Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for postlude. I do not play this more than once a year so I read it from the score. I was very glad that the editors at Edition Peters chose to divide the beams to reflect the division of the hands. The notes go past much too quickly to

Re: [Finale] repeat?

2010-05-30 Thread John Howell
At 10:03 AM +0200 5/30/10, dc wrote: www.collins.lautre.net/files/brace.jpg How do you interpret this sign? It comes at the end of a chaconne where the theme is 2x8 measures (D to A, A back to D). As a repeat? Thanks, Dennis Well, it's certainly something I've never seen. (David Fenton?)

Re: [Finale] Rondeau layout

2010-05-30 Thread John Howell
At 10:07 AM +0200 5/30/10, dc wrote: John Howell écrit: Well, if you have the last Da Capo written out (which is what your outline shows), it's no longer a Da Capo, right? You might want to put a rubric like Keep playing to the end just to be perfectly clear for sightreading. This is

Re: [Finale] repeat?

2010-05-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 May 2010 at 14:09, John Howell wrote: Well, it's certainly something I've never seen. (David Fenton?) I don't have anything to say that hasn't already been said. It confuses me greatly, in fact, as the obvious interpretation (repeat the 2 bars) seems musically less than satisfactory.