Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Barbara Touburg
On 18-8-2010 5:30, dershem wrote: I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the whole band playing in precise rhythm to allow the audien

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Wed, August 18, 2010 8:39 am, Barbara Touburg wrote: > It was first done in the Middle Ages. It was called Hoketus. Traditional Central African hocket as well -- sung by children! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tue Aug 17, at TuesdayAug 17 11:30 PM, dershem wrote: I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the whole band playing in preci

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Chuck Israels
"Klangfarbenmelodie" (sp?) melody made of bells - Schoenberg. I wrote a big band piece using that technique in 1968. The last movement did this at a pretty fast tempo with jazz rhythms. Some of the snippets were two to four notes long, but the effect at the fast tempo was pretty much what Car

[Finale] best-selling, most advanced notation software...?!

2010-08-18 Thread SN jef chippewa
anyone know anything about this stuff? i don't see anything about being able to control the look of anything, and it looks pretty goldarn ugly to my eyes. although the idea seems good, looks like a useful thing for profs, maybe for critical editions if the design was better. http://www.mus

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Bell
I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the whole band playing in precise rhythm to allow the audience to be able to hear the mel

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ah, hocketing at its best ... Dean On Aug 18, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Chris Bell wrote: I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the

Re: [Finale] best-selling, most advanced notation software...?!

2010-08-18 Thread John Howell
At 4:53 PM +0200 8/18/10, SN jef chippewa wrote: anyone know anything about this stuff? i don't see anything about being able to control the look of anything, and it looks pretty goldarn ugly to my eyes. It's a Windows only program, which would be a definite deal-breaker for many of us. And

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Aug 2010 at 7:54, Chuck Israels wrote: > "Klangfarbenmelodie" (sp?) melody made of bells - Schoenberg. That's not what the term means. It means "tone-color melody" and Schoenberg's Five Pieces (Op. 16) are the textbook example, where orchestration and tone color are the metaphorical "melo

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Chuck Israels
Thanks, David. My German's not so good, and I misunderstood the musical meaning too. Learn things here. Chuck Sent from my iPhone On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:49 AM, "David W. Fenton" wrote: > On 18 Aug 2010 at 7:54, Chuck Israels wrote: > >> "Klangfarbenmelodie" (sp?) melody made of bells - Schoe

[Finale] A new notation program with native microtones

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel Wolf
Since some readers of this list have an interest in alternative tunings, here's a new notation program designed primarily for Turkish maqam music, but eminently usable for other repertoire: http://www.nihavent.net/en/ the program is still young, but the author has been steadily introducing

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread John Howell
At 8:30 PM -0700 8/17/10, dershem wrote: I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the whole band playing in precise rhythm to allow th

RE: [Finale] best-selling, most advanced notation software...?!

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Yates
> Hard to tell from their website, but it looks about as > sophisticated in terms of entry as Music Construction Set for > the Commodore 64. The cutting edge in its time! Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mai

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-18 Thread Horace Brock
I haven't written anything like that, but I know of a piece. Eldon Rathburn's "Canadian Brass Rag" is like that. My quintet couldn't play it. Horace Brock On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:30:09 -0700, you wrote: >I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is >... unique. > >No one