Re: [Finale] clear manual positioning of tuplets

2014-05-20 Thread Robert Patterson
Does the Reset button in Change...->Tuplets not achieve what you wish? On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Ryan wrote: > Finale 2014 Mac OS X 10.9 > > I'd like to reset the manual positioning of all tuplets so they revert back > to the tuple settings I've defined. > > I copied and pasted music fro

[Finale] clear manual positioning of tuplets

2014-05-20 Thread Ryan
Finale 2014 Mac OS X 10.9 I'd like to reset the manual positioning of all tuplets so they revert back to the tuple settings I've defined. I copied and pasted music from someone else's file and their tuplet settings were included. I'm looking for a way to automatically clear all tuplets without ha

Re: [Finale] OT: Baroque Articulation

2014-05-20 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks to all who have responded. What I have done so far is what Kim has suggested. I thought, having never had any formal training in transcription, that maybe I was missing something. Thanks, Lawrence On 20 May 2014 18:13, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > It's such a thorny issue because in man

Re: [Finale] OT: Baroque Articulation

2014-05-20 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
It's such a thorny issue because in many baroque parts, the markings are so inconsistent (sometimes they are clearly staccato markings, but in a set of doublet-parts, where there are two copies of violin 1, the same bar will have wedges / daggers. My editor has suggested to duplicate the markings a

Re: [Finale] OT: Baroque Articulation

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Fiedler
I would try to reproduce the sign (a hyphen rotated 90 degrees CCW) in your editions. Most specialists will know what to do with it. The consensus seems to be something between a "marcato" and a slightly shortend, slightly accented "portato". Easy enough in "Shape Designer". Eric *

Re: [Finale] OT: Baroque Articulation

2014-05-20 Thread J D Thomas
I have a client that uses these articulations pretty extensively, in addition to normal staccato dots. We refer to them as martellato staccato, and IIRC they are accented staccato. YMMV. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On May 20, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Lawrence Yates wrote: > For those who transcribe

[Finale] OT: Baroque Articulation

2014-05-20 Thread Lawrence Yates
For those who transcribe baroque manuscripts. Am I correct in assuming that the articulation mark that looks like a modern staccatissimo "dagger" should be transcribed as a modern staccato dot? It has been suggested to me that it should be interpreted as an articulated note and not necessarily as

Re: [Finale] default rest question

2014-05-20 Thread Steve Parker
I would use a double whole as per original. I would split off the last movement to a new doc and change the default. Steve P. > On 16 May 2014, at 19:55, Martin Banner wrote: > > Ryan, > > I checked the Dolmetsch book, and if I read it correctly, yes, double > whole rests are the standard