Re: [Finale] OT: web page designer

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Nope. KompoZer doesn't work on IntelMacs. Any other ideas? --Andrew Stiller On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > I use KompoZer, a free open-source download. It is very basic, but it lets > you edit the pages WYSWYG. The upload is very poor, though. For uploa

[Finale] OT: web page designer

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
My extensive web site was created with a web page designer that will not run on my new iMac. Can anyone suggest another program that can directly use or import my existing pages? I tried Sandvox, but it doesn't have that capacity. Help! --Andrew St

[Finale] OT: web page editor?

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
Can anybody recommend a decent, cheap web designer/editor for the Mac? My current one won't work w. my new computer. --Andrew Stiller ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] layout problem

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
FinMac 11, OS 10.6.6. With this combination I find I can no longer print a pair of letter-size pages next to each other on an 11 X 17 sheet (i.e. 2 portrait-oriented pages on a landscape-oriented sheet). Any suggestions? __Andrew Stiller ___ Finale m

Re: [Finale] Rondeau layout

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
Write out the last "A" in full (as Couperin often did), with a final barline at the very end and regular double-bars everywhere else. Players will automatically assume that if they haven't encountered a final bar, the piece isn't over yet. Andrew Stiller Kalli

Re: [Finale] O.T. Secco recitatives

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 28, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: The other thing that is structurally very cool (hah!) about West Side Story is that the whole thing is based around the tritone interval... Many of the tunes use the tritone melodically in prominent position. In my youth, I used the begi

Re: [Finale] O.T. Secco recitatives

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
nor-second motif that dominates the whole song. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Secco recitatives

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
at up to the climax at "fills the gutter with gold" is very powerful. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Secco recitatives

2010-05-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
up to the climax at "fills the gutter with gold" is very powerful. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Organ Playing Question

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
o play. I would guess Messiaen wants two different manual timbres, and the notes on the extra manual (which would usually be on the top staff) are to be played by the same two hands that handle the other two manuals, and no "third hand" should be needed. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] OT - a matter of notation

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
lived just after the Gabrielis and is important in the history of the cello. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: dynamic range for musical anvils?

2010-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
There's an Alec Wilder band piece that calls for anvil. And of course there's that best known of all anvil parts, the one in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."--Not soft, of course, but hey... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press htt

Re: [Finale] OT: dynamic range for musical anvils?

2010-04-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: Is anyone acquainted with the musical use of anvils, and their possible dynamic range? Every instance I can thing of is loud, and I noticed that Wagner does not give any dynamic's for Mime's hammering in Siegfried. Is anyone here familiar wit

Re: [Finale] Page layout for Marimba music

2010-03-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:56 PM, John Howell wrote: For questions like this I turn to "How to Write for Percussion" by Samuel Z Solomon. He ... points out that it's important to know the instrument you're writing for (ALWAYS a good idea!), since they vary from 4-octave to 5-octave instruments.

Re: [Finale] composers and new effects

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:37 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 18 Mar 2010 at 17:22, Andrew Stiller wrote: The inequality was applied at the sixteenth note level, the weak notes being just a tiny bit longer than 1/2 the duration of the strong notes. That's pretty interesting, in that it

Re: [Finale] composers and new effects

2010-03-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Florence + Michael wrote: On 17 Mar 2010, at 21:28, Andrew Stiller wrote: There's at least one exception to that. In an early-19th c. French book about the proper pinning of barrel organs, there's a detailed illustration of the pinning for a barrel t

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
, nothing happens. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] composers and new effects

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
dition, via New Orleans. After all, only 30 years later Gottschalk was writing pieces that sound best when slightly swung, so such a connection is not at all implausible. (I have a CD of a German pianist playing Gottschalk w.o swing, and it is unbelievably stiff--like a mounted skeleton of the

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
the Mac OS require an Intel microprocessor, so I'd have to buy a whole new computer, plus all-new apps to go with it. If I could somehow do this via an accessory hard drive, I'd do it--but I don't think that's possible, is it? --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Pres

[Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
My 9-yr.-old browsers no longer support most online video, notably UTube. I'd like to upgrade to the most recent available versions that will run w. my OS (Mac OS 10.3.9), but can't find these on the internet. Can anybody help? My current browsers are Safari 1.3.2 and IE/Mac 5

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
#x27;s way, and the occasional overwhelming of the former by the latter is part of the esthetic--like an elephant trampling through the parlor. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
it's beneath your dignity, or that you are personally incapable of performing it? I *thought* I was writing for a professional." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu htt

Re: [Finale] [OT] clef for high basses

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
u guessed. You'll actually have less trouble if you use the treble clef instead; but if you do, be sure to make clear whether the notes are to sound an octave down or as written. Both conventions are found in existing cb music. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press htt

Re: [Finale] OT: Opposite of 'doppio movimento'

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: On 2/18/2010 3:22 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Doppio valore. See, e.g., the Brahms F-minor clarinet sonata. Ah, thanks, Andrew, that sounds familiar. But I'm curious where this is in the Brahms. I have a Breitkopf edition here and don&

Re: [Finale] OT: Opposite of 'doppio movimento'

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
See, e.g., the Brahms F-minor clarinet sonata. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Classical saxophone

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
a call-out list. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Classical saxophone

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
ers) has become standard for most composers these days--John Adams comes immediately to mind, but he is far from alone. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/m

Re: [Finale] OT: harp notation

2010-01-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
pitch and adding a slashed accidental beneath the note--for example, a Gb with a slashed natural beneath it. I think this would be understood w.o explanation. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
Thanks to all who advised me on this--but I've just discovered that the ability to convert a pdf page into a PICT is built right into Preview! D'oh! My only comfort is that noone else on this list seemed to know that either... --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Page Scaling dropdown? Where? I don't see it. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ Ignorance is infinite. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] clef between grace and real notes

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
, this dialog is crucial for the following things: Adjusting the spacing of grace notes. Resolving notehead collisions between different voices in different layers. I very rarely use it for other things too, but I forget just what. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic

2009-12-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
e don't recommend Dolet; the conversion is too lossy. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] importing pdf as graphic (was: copying exprs)

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
or GIF) out of a pdf file or anything else, but I know of nothing equivalent under OSX. I now find myself in need of importing whole pdf pages into Finale as graphics, and I sure would like to be able to do that without rebooting in System 9 each time I want to make one of these... Andrew

Re: [Finale] 2K7 beaming issue

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:38 AM, Florence + Michael wrote: If you click on "Apply" in the Document Options -Beams dialog, you should immediately see the results of any change you've made: no need to use "rebeam" or to select part of the document, since these settings affect the whole document.

Re: [Finale] 2K7 beaming issue

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
;s what's happening here? Doug On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Nope. Doesn't help. --Andrew On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:22 PM, John Blane wrote: Andrew - I think once you've changed the beaming options, you must run the "Rebeam" command to see the effe

Re: [Finale] 2K7 beaming issue

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
, at 1:09 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: In FinMac 2K7, I find that beams covering more than three notes always come out flat. I tried changing the settings in Document Options/Beams, but nothing seems to make a difference. How can I restore Finale's (former) normal behavior in this respect? Andr

[Finale] 2K7 beaming issue

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
In FinMac 2K7, I find that beams covering more than three notes always come out flat. I tried changing the settings in Document Options/Beams, but nothing seems to make a difference. How can I restore Finale's (former) normal behavior in this respect? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Music Notation: Fast bow

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
tando," but this is not at all equivalent. Flautando specifically means to play with the edge of the bow-hair (at any speed), and is a light, airy effect. "Much bow" means almost the opposite, esthetically, since playing thus produces a particularly

Re: [Finale] OT: Question for Andrew Stiller about Instrumentation Book

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Nov 14, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: This is a question for Andrew about his book, but I'm posting it here since there may be general interest in his response. I have the 1st ed. of Handbook of Instrumentation, and I am looking at page 243. In the middle it gives two examples

Re: [Finale] RE: OT Dies Irae

2009-10-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
ents of Mozart's clarinet quintet and the opening to the Rite of Spring, were all variations on "The Sidewalks of New York." You gotta watch out for that sort of thing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] slow graphic printing

2009-10-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
*someone* responded! Fortunately, I did keep the 2K4 on a backup disc, so all is not lost. Thanx again. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

[Finale] slow graphic printing

2009-10-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
won't print at all! I tried creating a PDF file and printing from that, but it proved just as slow. Is there anything I can do to make the 2K7 version print as readily as the 2K4 original? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallist

Re: [Finale] End of Make Music?

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
either to use the regular tie command (from the starting note rather than the ending one), or to go back and hit the asterisk key (not the 9 as someone else suggested) to force the improperly hidden accidental to reappear. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

Re: [Finale] Horns without key signature

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
sing, but there was still no key signature. Only with the introduction of the pedal tuning mechanism did it become important for timps. to be able to change key freely while playing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] Transposing instrument key change

2009-10-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
symbol key signature. Is there an easy way to get what I want? In the Staff Transposition dialog, unclick Simplify Key, select Other from the pull-down menu, and enter the value -9 for the Key Alteration. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://w

Re: [Finale] The Finale nail in the coffin

2009-10-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
TW, I also just discovered that if you double-click a PostScript file--even one made from Finale 2.x--it will open perfectly in Preview. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://list

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
e the trumpets they used were hammered out on a form, and were thus slightly imperfect in their internal contours; this irregularity provided the player with just enough wiggle room to play all notes securely without the vents that, ironically, a mathematically perfect valveless trumpet requires. A

Re: [Finale] Violin Ties

2009-09-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
concluding that this common expressive device was best left up to the player. As I said, I don't see what connection this can possibly have to the matter at hand, but there it is: the same symbol. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press htt

Re: [Finale] harp pedal diagram

2009-09-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
se music I publish and who never bothered with pedalling diagrams. On one extracted harp part, the harpist pencilled in the note "Jerry, harps have pedals!" I add pedalling diagrams to the harp parts in all my editions of his work. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallis

[Finale] no pitchwheel

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
I created a file back in FinMac 2K2 that had quartertones defined for playback as pitchwheel alterations. Now I find that under OS 10.3.9, these alterations do not play back in either 2K4 or 2K7. What can I do to get them back? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

[Finale] OT: no early music in Wikipedia!

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
x27;s a lot of opportunity there for grad students, or even undergrads, to get a quick publication credit. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
of these that make it clear that the ophicleide is a highly flexible instrument, and that its range and timbre are much closer to a euphonium than to a bass or contrabass tuba. There are quite a few players of the thing nowadays, including many associated with top orchestras. Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide NOW Language for terms

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
It's rather like the increasing English use of "contrabass" instead of "double bass." As an example of the use of "trompa," I have in front of me Amadeo Roldán's 4 _Ritmicas_ for piano and wind quintet. The wind parts are labeled Fla

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
s no reason to think that a musician would be more likely to understand them in Italian than in any other language (quick: what's the Italian for "fluttertongue"? What's the French? We probably all know the German "flatterzunge"--but that's

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
h only some of the bow hair, making a thin, wispy sound; whether that sound is truly flute-like or not is irrelevant: that's what the instruction says to do. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide NOW Language for terms

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
speaker herself, so she found herself giving most of her instructions in both languages. Just a reminder to all: In Spanish "trompa" means horn and "clavicordio" means square piano. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://w

Re: [Finale] OT: Ophecleide

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
ior" groups. And he regarded the English as superior to the Germans, and the Scandinavians as the most superior of all. He referred to his attempts to avoid words with Latin roots as "blue-eyed English." Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] OT: mutes for flügelhorns? now Andrews brass now trombones

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
l those instruments just ordinary bass 'bones? Are their players (top professionals) all deluded? There are a few different configurations of the double valve around now, but, again, the composer really doesn't need to worry with them. Unfortunately, we have to worry about th

Re: [Finale] OT: mutes for flügelhorns? now Andrews brass

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
for photographs of numerous such instruments, submitted by the players who use them. FWIW, that same page has a photo of a 17th-c. contrabass sackbutt, together w. a playback file of its bottom BBBb Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/

Re: [Finale] OT: mutes for flügelhorns? now Andrews brass

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
than most of you want to hear, and I hope everybody's happy. And if you haven't had enough, check out www.contrabass.com/ and especially http://www.contrabass.com/pages/cbtbn.html . Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] OT: mutes for flügelhorns?

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
a utopian fantasy on my part. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Converting Finale 2008 file to pdf - problem

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
step. To make a PDF file on the Mac, just open your Finale file, invoke the Print command, and click the "Save as PDF" button. I have never had the slightest problem printing any PDF file so created. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Pres

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
t if the orchestra does not wish to keep them, they should be donated to a school, library, or community orchestra. If any of you out there think this is a good deal, by all means get in touch! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://ww

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
select "Show Keyboard Viewer." Note, however, that some (many?) fonts contain characters *that cannot be accessed from the keyboard.* To see these, go to that same menu and select "Show Character Palette." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://w

Re: [Finale] copyrights

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
gether--at which point, unless the online system is drastically simplified, I intend to simply mark my publications as copyrighted, and not formally register them at all. That provides adequate protection for most purposes. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallist

Re: [Finale] Re-intro time?

2009-06-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
quot; Also, much of the basics of this can be found in any decent survey of (Western) music history. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re-intro time?

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
7;, D, A', C, G'--sacrificing chromaticism in favor of easy LH performance of leaping bass lines, and allowing a reach of an 11th or more. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.ed

Re: [Finale] Re-intro time?

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
or very big, clunky buttons. Take the simple step of making the buttons flat-topped and smooth (13th c.?), and voilà! a keyboard. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://li

[Finale] What's this? (was: Snake Charmer?)

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
On a slightly related topic, can anyone identify this? It's been diving me nuts for years: stacc. quarters: A C E A, accented half: F, 8ths: E D C B A Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list F

Re: [Finale] How do I upgrade an old Finale file?

2009-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
, spacing, and measure number issues under 2K9 that will require much more than a casual glance to identify, much less fix. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] TAN: Tips for Printing and Finishing

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
volume is not the comb, but the paper; and even so my 1966-67 issues of _Source_ show only minor wear to the covers. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:44 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 11.03.2009 Andrew Stiller wrote: >> Finale text boxes have adjustable tabs? > Tabs, shmabs. Finale has the capabilities, mostly in submenus: >> Center ? > Yes. >> Right ? > Yes. Where are these Tabs, I

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
m to me that more than a few words manipulated in that way would be more trouble than it's worth. If I have to leave Finale to create something like this, I'd head straight to Fontographer. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.ka

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
h thing. There are things that it really is impossible to do with Finale alone (curved staves, frinstance). The difference in "impossibility" between that and the placement of spoken dialog should be obvious, IMO. Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
nicely laid out tables of contents -- they have always been a pain to get just right in Finale. Not for me, and I do it all the time. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
there is almost nothing a commercial word processor can do that Finale's own text engine can't do just as well. At least that's true for 2K7 and earlier. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Robert Patterson w

[Finale] OT: Canadian check

2009-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
ding the heavy exchange fee? Or won't that work? Any other suggestions? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT trombones in Beethoven

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
_ Overture. In discussing the pros and cons of valves on trombones, he cites as one of their advantages the ability to fill the gap between the tenor trombone's low E and the Bb pedal below. Make of all this what you will. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT trombones in Beethoven

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
that theory. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself (Somewhat OT)

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
ns_. Ironically, the near-inaudible parts in Beethoven's 9th and his _Missa Solemnis_ are among the most difficult ever written, and are standard audition fare for contrabassoonists. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ __

Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
he staff lines and place the various (X-shaped) noteheads at higher or lower levels within the blank space. I would use this same notation for the oboe, and for clarinet/sax/brass mouthpiece played alone (except of course that the instruction would be "mouthpiece alone"). Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] Viol clefs

2008-12-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
op out. There's a good discussion of it on p. 470 of Spitzer and Zaslaw: _The Birth of the Orchestra_, giving examples from Quantz and CPE Bach. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Iconography in Music History

2008-11-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
wn to 64' C (16.351 Hz!), produced by a stopped pipe 32' long. A typical church or concert hall can easily accommodate a pipe of that length. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] O.T. Iconography in Music History

2008-11-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:08 PM, John Howell wrote: At 2:03 PM -0500 11/14/08, Andrew Stiller wrote: James McKinnon, who taught a course on this at SUNY Buffalo back in the '70s, made the important distinction of "realistic, but not real." A major example of this is a famous

Re: [Finale] O.T. Iconography in Music History

2008-11-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
" A major example of this is a famous painting of St. Cecilia at the organ, in which the lengths of the pipes increase linearly from low to high instead of exponentially from high to low. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone music

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
he audio excerpt of my *Chamber Symphony* sax quartet at http://www.kallistimusic.com/APSblurbs.html A few other audio clips on this same page also use quartertones, but this one is the most dramatic and obvious in that way. Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] OT: end solo passage in orch

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
heard of for one of the orchestral players to have a solo themself. I would recommend therefore that the soloist's solo and tutti marks be shown only in the solo part and in the score. There is no need for the accompanying musicians to know about them, as long as the

Re: [Finale] natural+sharp before the same note

2008-10-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
I have a complete early-19th c. articulation library set up, which includes sharp, natural, and flat signs configured so as to appear immediately left of the notehead, but far enough away to allow room for Finale's own accidental to appear between. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

Re: [Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Sep 7, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08:55 PM 9/7/2008, Andrew Stiller wrote: >I get my long combs from the Spiral Binding Co., Totowa NJ, >www.spiralbinding.com, phone 973-256-0666. They will cut combs to just >about any length you like, but since there is a surcharge

Re: [Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
, phone 973-256-0666. They will cut combs to just about any length you like, but since there is a surcharge for every cut, I find it considerably cheaper to buy them full-length (76 rings) and cut them down myself as needed (which can easily be done with a plain pair of scissors). Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] Size of Orchestra Score

2008-08-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
ant thing is to keep expenses down, since choral scores normally sell at prices comparable to an extracted instrumental part. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2K7 key change dilemma

2008-08-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
ctual to defined or vice versa, worked. On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: There is a spot where I have to insert a key change, and for the life of me I can't get it to happen. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallist

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2K7 key change dilemma

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:26 PM, J D Thomas wrote: Changing the measure number definition in Doc Options from actual to defined or vice versa, worked. Um, it's not in Doc Options anymore. Where is it? --Andrew On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I'm edit

[Finale] FinMac 2K7 key change dilemma

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
at I've already done. Advice would be very greatly appreciated. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] French terminology

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 10, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I would have thought lowercase too, but I've run into a fair number of French scores that capitalize the pitch names for transposing instruments -- the Dover reprint of the Durand & Cie _Daphnis et Chloé_, for example. Are instances like t

Re: [Finale] French terminology

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
", which has been cited in this thread, is not French at all but Italian. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question (OT)

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
sing the stereo effects that make a big part of its effect. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
, as it was quite rare for me, but it always struck me as odd. IIRC, I did submit an enhancement request to MM to increase this limit. See Bach, WTC fugue XXII, for example. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Fin

Re: [Finale] (OT) Copyright (was Score Binding Question)

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
arade." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] (OT) Ancient History (was Jazz Notation Standards)

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
z and Pop poll." It does, though, give them credit for being "one of the first rock bands with a full horn section," and therefore "one of the most influential groups ever." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ __

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