Re: [Finale] Jazz Notation Standards...what's correct?

2008-08-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
sible. Jazz in the '60s was most definitely *not* a form of popular music, and CTA and BST developed huge audiences precisely because theirs *was* popular music. That's what popular means! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ _

Re: [Finale] Playback engine has bugs

2008-07-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
A SLUR would normally be used in place of a tie between unequal pitches. As far as I know, unequal pitches are NEVER tied together. Yours; Bill Sinclair Enharmonic shifts: Eb tied to D# e.g. Graphically, yes a slur should be used, but playback ought to give one continuous note. Andrew

Re: [Finale] 2009 expression question

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
I am faintly dismayed that none of the very cogent contributors to this thread has made the "green" argument: Repeat signs save trees! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
r use linked parts. That being so, what use will 2K9 be to me? Precious little, it seems, and I am now resolved to uprgrade beyond 2K7 only if and when my composers become unable to send me materials in a form I can currently work with. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: Re(4): [Finale] Bill Duncan's Rehearsal Font: Strange New Behavior

2008-07-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
I've had the superscript-2 problem show up in old files sometimes when they are upgraded to OSX. My workaround has been to replace the superscript number with a plain 2, reduce the number's size and superscript it manually. Pain in the ass, but it works. Andrew Stiller Kallisti M

Re: [Finale] 2007/08 2-up printing problem on mac?

2008-07-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
that file when it is printed. 4) Make sure the Page Setup (File menu) is set to Tabloid. For now, that's all I can think of. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Don Hart wrote: [Hi Andrew - Maybe this missed you. Here's t

Re: [Finale] Half-harmonics

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
uot;--a term I much prefer; but the purpose of language is communication, so I use the word that everyone now understands. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] 2007/08 2-up printing problem on mac?

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
printing thus. Maybe if you could tell us more? 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 2K9 (was: default file issues)

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
e, I'd have a system that runs OS 9, OS 10.3 and OS 10.5 all at once. Works for me. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Repeat signs question

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
was when the bassist said "Play the whole thing, then the first half twice, then the whole thing twice more." I still wonder how I should have notated it to make it both compact and easy to follow. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallist

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

2008-07-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
- The Mass Edit Tool can no longer be accessed by using the traditional tool palettes. This is a FIX?? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 Announced

2008-07-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
mputer with the upgraded version already on it, Finale 09, promising though it seems, is definitely not worth the required forklift upgrade. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http:/

Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
th century engravings. I addressed this in a posting two days ago to which there has been no response whatever. Let me repeat": 8vb had *zero* presence in the classical world until about ten years ago, if that. It is gradually creeping in now precisely because it is the default in Finale.

Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
me in. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
ot;8va" abbreviates not "ottaVA" but "ottaVa Alta"--which reflects its actual meaning in recent music. If "8va" abbreviates "ottava alta," then "8vb" quite logically must symbolize "ottava bassa," and it is important to realize that i

Re: [Finale] OT: TV digital converter box

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Jack Ellis wrote: Here's what I experienced installing two RCA converters: 1. connect the box between the rabbit ears and the TV (you probably know that). Mine requires connecting the antenna to the box, then the box to the TV's antenna input. 2. Put the TV

[Finale] OT: TV digital converter box

2008-06-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
ne on this list has enough general electronics expertise to talk me through this? Any help would be gratefully appreciated! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.e

Re: [Finale] Transposition question in FinMac 2003a

2008-06-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
transposed horns on different staves, then drag the staves right on top of each other. Put the abbr. staff names in as staff expressions. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

Re: [Finale] mezzo voce

2008-06-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
On May 31, 2008, at 1:01 PM, John Howell wrote: ... When we walked in the waitress asked, "Are you together?" Alice spoke up and said, "I'm together. And they're with me!" Reminds me of the time a composer friend in grad school answered his phone sayi

Re: [Finale] mezzo voce

2008-05-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
s been a source of amusement for millennia that the everyday words for the male and female genitalia are feminine and masculine respectively. Casanova came up with his own tongue-in-cheek explanation: "because the slave takes the name of the master." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] mezzo voce

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
n" is perfectly correct English, but if you use it in any classical context, you risk having the reader think you're iggerant. The same thing applies to solo/sola and the rest. Violists (and conductors!) will certainly understand you if you write "tutti"

Re: [Finale] mezzo voce

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
for him to play the organ. In modern Italian "to play [an instrument]" is eseguire, but formerly it was toccare (to touch). He had just asked the organist if it was OK to touch his organ! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallist

Re: [Finale] Repeat in part but not in score

2008-05-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
does not apply to 18th-c. music. 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: recorders for the 4th Brandenburg

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
rt in the bass clef, and the notes would come out correctly. For more on the pardessus de viole, see my book, pp. 463-465. 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: recorders for the 4th Brandenburg

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
instruments, G. Bruce Hunter French vn. clef generally signifies recorder rather than flute. Recorders of all sizes are non-transposing instruments, so the key sig. doesn't prove anything. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ P.S. I see that Henry Brant has di

[Finale] I'm back!

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
This is to let everybody know I'm back on the list. I had a hearttransplant on 11/14/07, and recovery has been long and difficult. Kallisti Music Press reopened for business a few days ago, including online. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusi

[Finale] temporarily unsubscribing

2007-09-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hi, My husband, Andrew Stiller, is in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania again with heart trouble. So many hospitalizations this year that I can't quite remember, 3 or 4. He wants me to temporarily suspend his Finale E mail. I thought I remembered his password, but it se

Re: [Finale] OT Historical performance; Was: alto as tenor?

2007-09-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
be avoided. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] alto as tenor?

2007-09-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
D trumpet? What then of the recorder and oboe? 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 Historical performance; Was: alto as tenor?

2007-09-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 07.09.2007 Andrew Stiller wrote: 1) No vibrato Why? This is an example of what I mean by my strictures being a simplification. Vibrato in Bq. music, at least IMO, was intended for soloists. If you have an orchestral string section

Re: [Finale] OT Historical performance; Was: alto as tenor?

2007-09-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
ill sound stylish. For a bunch of amateurs, I don't think it's realistic to try and demand more. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] alto as tenor?

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
change in the written music. So: do we play the _Symphonie Fantastique_ w. ophicleides or tubas? The answer imo is neither easy nor obvious. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] Piano notation question

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
s" for two guitars, the climax, marked ff, was delberately played pp instead. This sort of thing happens all the time, to everybody. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http:/

Re: [Finale] alto as tenor?

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
narrow one, and the difference *in sound* between well-tempered and equal-tempered is a matter of a few cents here and there. Frankly, this is one issue that I think has been made far to much of; well-tempered, equal tempered, a be gezunt---who cares? Yeah, yeah, I know, you do; I don't. Andr

Re: [Finale] alto as tenor?

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Well, you left out the powered wigs, then everything would be hunky dory! Ooh! Powered wigs! Way cool! Did they use batteries or what? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com

[Finale] alto as tenor?

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
In two American choral works of the 1820s (different composers, different cities) I have encountered alto parts that are clearly intended to sound an octave lower than written, like the tenors. Has anybody else ever come across this practice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Staff order?

2007-09-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
o might be preferable. 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. Articulation question from mid 18th century

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On 8/30/07, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it's piano followed immediately by forte; the modern equivalent would be pf. I think those who favor "poco forte" are on the wrong track. Why exactl

Re: [Finale] O.T. Articulation question from mid 18th century

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
t the symbol "po" then followed by a "f" would indicate. I think it's piano followed immediately by forte; the modern equivalent would be pf. I think those who favor "poco forte" are on the wrong track. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] OT permission to set poems

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
th the permission of Mrs. Valerie Eliot and Faber & Faber Ltd.", wh. to me implies that DGG sought permission for the liner notes, but that S.G. did not do so for the actual composition. If she had, the wording would have said something like "used by permission" rather

Re: [Finale] OT permission to set poems

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
986. Now it is protected until (I think) 2025. What then of Sofia Gubaidulina's setting of this text, wh. has been not only performed but recorded? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] OT permission to set poems

2007-08-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
have a program note explaining the copyright issue involved, and/or present a printed copy of the text. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Turn-of-the-century Band Music

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
I told them to use cornets, and the result was just right. Except that I had written (as I always do) for 4-valve flghns, and the cornets couldn't play the extra low notes. The trombones took 'em and made a reasonable stab at imitating the proper tone quality. Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] Turn-of-the-century Band Music

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
ot;utility clarinet" player who is expected to play (and own!) Bb/ACl, Bscl, Ebcl, Asax, Tsax, or Btsax whenever called upon to do so. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Turn-of-the-century Band Music

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
or English horns! Totally daft. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Turn-of-the-century Band Music

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
horns in F. The low WW and 4th horn would hopefully make up for the lack of massed baritones and euphoniums in an American band. The picc. reinforces the EbCl; I forget what I did w. the oboes. The extra instruments appear as parts only; they are not cued in the score. Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] OT permission to set poems

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
the entire expected earnings of the proposed publication. So all his work is down the drain--at least for another 100 years or so. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://li

Re: [Finale] OT permission to set poems

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
t the similarity was coincidental, wh. gets a bit dicey... 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 permission to set poems

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
ink this is appropriate, and if not, what would you do about it?" Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Size Matters

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
s teaching materials and music for the visually impaired. I normally use 80% for performance materials (i.e., extracted parts) but many folks use 75%. For scores my default is likewise 80%, but I almost always have to make it smaller, sometimes down to 60% Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

Re: [Finale] RE: computer hangs

2007-08-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
Thanks to all who responded to my original question. I will try some of the recent suggestions and see what happens... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

[Finale] annoying warning

2007-08-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
y works until I quit Finale. When I launch Finale again, later, I'm back to square one. As it were. Help! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the shell, where you can run fsck on the drive (it tells you what to type when you go into that mode). An excellent id

Re: [Finale] RE: computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/17/07 6:58:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I ran MemTest and all tests passed. Now what? I would consider upgrading - maybe to 2006 Actually (my bad) I have 2K7, not 2K4 as originally stated. Andrew

[Finale] RE: computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
OK, I ran MemTest and all tests passed. Now what? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
relaunch anyway. There is a shareware program for OSX called Memtest that runs a test on your RAM. It helped me find a bad chip twice in the last couple of years, Very helpful, thanks. I'll look into that right away. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://w

[Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
eboot (ctrl-cmd-eject). What does anybody think is going on here, and what can I do about it? 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. Terminology question.:Surdinati

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
I didn't find anything on Google. The movement is an Andante.Could someone help me with some information on what the term means? Thanks -- Kim Patrick Clow "Early Music enthusiasts think outside the Bachs!" ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
e's hoping MakeMusic comes to their senses in time for 2K9, which is the next time I'd normally think of upgrading... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Brahms and inspiration

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
hich would make him, most likely, and agnostic. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Brahms, Dvorak and Ragtime

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
ow ragtime might have fared at the hands of various 19th-c. masters, I thing the closest we'll ever come is Borodin, who is known to have been influenced by Gottschalk in _Prince Igor_ Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.ka

Re: [Finale] Brahms and inspiration

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
tance before the 19th c., and definitely a bad career move until the 20th. So speculation has to remain speculation, just as it has had to remain with various politicans (Lincoln? Franklin?). Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusi

Re: [Finale] Brahms and inspiration

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
go when one is "in the zone" (to use a hockey goaler's term.) I like naps, too! Compare Lou Harrison: "Cherish,Conserve, Consider, Create." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] combining files into a song collection

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
song except the last. 8) In page view, adjust the layout to make room for titles, indent the first system of each song, etc. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
this kind of problem." It is precisely because this particular problem is intractable that I have contacted the list about it. And everyone is being very helpful, though we still don't have a solution. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ _

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
I've opened it? 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: missing image

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:28 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: what I see is full size: 1333x1000. Huge! You should resize it with Photoshop or similar. I did that w. Opus Cammedia--the photo manipulation software that came w. my digital camera. It reduced the size of the file by more than half, an

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 15, 2007, at 11:43 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: You're saying it doesn't load in Claris, but what matters is if it's visible via a web browser. Can you open the file via the FILE | OPEN in your web browser and see if the file displays? Yep, there it is, big as life. No

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Actually the image is missing. <http://www.kallistimusic.com/images/Clarke.jpg> Do you have the URL for the image? -- - Hiro Oh, I see what you mean. I had not yet posted the image to my web site. It's there now, at the address you give. This is the reduced-size image. And

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
for public access, and I wanted it to look professional. 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: missing image

2007-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
entical to those of the file that would load--but that still didn't help. What now? 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: missing image

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
as "Clarke 12%25.jpg". I deleted the "25" and saved, but when I went back into edit mode, the picture was still missing. The oddest thing is that when I then went back into html mode, the 25 had come back. Any idea what's going on? Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
% of original size (208 Kb), but it still won't show up in Claris HomePage. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: missing image

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
, where my web page designer lives. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] mid-measure clef question

2007-07-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
, I keep getting a treble clef, and can't figure out how to change that to a bass clef. Option-click the treble clef. This will bring up a palette where you can change the clef to bass--or any other. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusi

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
in all previous versions. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] printing weirdness

2007-07-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
Sorry to have wasted everyone's time on this. For some reason I had forgotten that when printing a booklet w.o a duplexer, the page listing needs to be pruned *in pairs*, not one page at a time. When I did it the right way, of course everything came out the way it ought to. Andrew St

Re: [Finale] printing weirdness

2007-07-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 6, 2007, at 6:19 AM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/5/07 4:28:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FinMac2K7. I just updated a 3.7 file and added a blank page at the beginning so it could be printed as a

Re: [Finale] Slashed grace notes

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:37 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Jul 2007 at 17:37, Andrew Stiller wrote: A particularly common circumstance for me is if I have inadvertently omitted a bar in one part, I often don't discover it until 10-20 bars later. To make room for the omitted bar, I enter

Re: [Finale] printingĀ  weirdness

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
es of page one "print" just fine, but all the subsequent pairs of pages print out of order. 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: 18th century trombones

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
ow moved 360Ā° on the subject, stands. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Slashed grace notes

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
a rests at the end of the bar preceding, then tell Finale to shove everything down the line. That's when any post-beat graces get transferred. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

[Finale] printing weirdness

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
t the appearance I want just by printing 1,1,11,2,3,10 etc--but it bothers me that I would have to employ such a workaround. Why is this file different from all other files? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale ma

Re: [Finale] Slashed grace notes

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
g bar, from wh. they cannot be retrieved save by erasure and reentry. As for slashes on beamed graces, I find a smart-shape line very much the way to go, as it will be very stable and adjust its length and angle to match your layout. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://w

Re: [Finale] OT: 18th century trombones

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 4, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: Andrew Stiller, a few weeks back I said some recent scholarship was heading toward alto, tenor and bass trombones all being in Bb in the 18th and 19th centuries. I intended to send you some links at the time but did not. Here are some

Re: [Finale] transposition db

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
he writes "zinghol korthol"--but it' s clear what he's trying to say. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
. To me, using diamond noteheads without indicating the resultant pitch (and/or the fundamental) is just asking for trouble. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
see what Finale 2K9 looks like. 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: New Question

2007-06-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
s's f''s on a German bassoon, the answer is to bite the reed. I can even get a g'' that way, and have written it--with explicit instructions to bite the reed. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] New Question

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
es staccato and fortissimo, regardless of the notated duration or dynamic. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Is this a bug?

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
one after it. I do this all the time. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] New Question

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
movements, frinstance) that have no bearing on the act of composition itself. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now OT trombones

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
s C below the bass staff). These are the exact same sizes in wh. they had been manufactured since the 16th c. I cannot imagine what a (valveless) Bb bass trombone would be, nor how it could play the low notes Eb, D, Db, or C. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press htt

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now trumpets

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
. is certainly the only composer to treat it, fearlessly, as entirely equal to the other WW, and I love playing his stuff. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now OT clarinets

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
those who actually use them, and once a consensus has been reached (as it has on virtually all instrument names), any attempt to singlehandedly undo the consensus is quixotic at best, erroneous at worst. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now trumpets

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
, and very low for a trumpet player indeed. Stravinsky routinely takes trumpets down to the low F natural (he does it in Agon, frinstance), and I believe he had in mind the so-called German cavalry fingering, wherein the third valve is tuned a half step lower than usual. Andrew Stiller Kall

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
one in Bb, now extinct, that used to be played in jazz sometimes. There is (was?) a clarinet in high G that was a standard part of the Schrammelmusik folk trio in Germany and Austria. And there was a clarinette d'amour in (low) G that led a fitful existence for a few decades around

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:27 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 6 Jun 2007 at 13:22, Andrew Stiller wrote: According to my book (p. 337) This turn of phrase made me smile, coming as it does from the author of your book. :) Do I detect a hedging on the source of the information on this subject that

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
ions where the instrument is used in classical music--works by Thomson, Crumb, etc. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
larinets. Molter wrote a whole set of 6 clarinet concertos, all for the instrument in D. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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