Re: [Finale] VERY OT: Chaconnes and Passacaglias

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned _La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris_ by Marin Marais. It has just about the shortest possible passacaglia subject (3 notes). And I couldn't resist mentioning (though it is not classical): Graham Nash: "Our House" And

Re: [Finale] Editorial dynamic marks and margins (or alignments)

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 22.02.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote: I find Finale's default alignments even for ordinary dynamics to be so imperfect that I simply don't bother with them. Only very seldom do I see a dynamic, at any size, appear in the place I

Re: [Finale] Editorial dynamic marks and margins (or alignments)

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
n't bother with them. Only very seldom do I see a dynamic, at any size, appear in the place I would want it to be. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: reduction size (was Pesky Page Turns)

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
arrange proper page turns for any instrument except maybe the tuba. The idea that one could get good page turns for 1st violin under such circumstances is merely laughable. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
was off by 2 years. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
ldwide. Well, I consider that to be yet another example of the same ridiculously narrow definition. Lost another argument, I see. Well, I withdraw. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Percussion and Baroque Music (Improvised or not)

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
displays would have seemed vulgar and out-of-balance in an age when balance and moderation were highly prized. Percussion, to return to the topic at hand, was used very discretely in Baroque opera because, you would have been told, a special effect loses its effect when it ceases to be special

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
offenders. Eventually I came to understand that this kind of reaction (I call it "sputtering") is a kind of acknowledgement by the offender that he (very seldom she) has lost the argument. That being so, the only appropriate response is to quietly declare victory and drop the subject. Andr

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
#x27; member of the violin family existed or was used in the 17th c. I merely said it was not used in the orchestra, and this is incontrovertibly true. As to "massed sections," the numbers were certainly no more than we would call a chamber orchestra today. "Massed" me

Re: [Finale] Percussion and Baroque Music (Improvised or not)

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
wouldn't--as they in fact did not--use a tambourine. I hope we've cleared that up. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Percussion and Baroque Music (Improvised or not)

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:07 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Feb 2006 at 15:21, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Feb 17, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: how authentic is improvised percussion to Baroque music? It's authentic where it is known to have been used (as in Handel's

Re: [Finale] Percussion and Baroque Music (Improvised or not)

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
I'm sorry but I can't answer your question because I don't know which of the many points I made you are addressing. On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Really? Which instruments??     On 2/17/06, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Feb 17,

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 17, 2006, at 2:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 16 Feb 2006 at 23:50, Andrew Stiller wrote: (17th-c. orchestras had no 16' voice) Is this really true as an unqualified statement? Orchestral practice was very, very different in different places, and, of course, the whole idea

Re: [Finale] Percussion and Baroque Music (Improvised or not)

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
ropriate instruments, the more lowbrow and "Renaissance Faire"ish. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
rlier, it was if anything standard to make the treble clef (seldom running to a full page, though!) loco. There are many works that are problematic in this regard, famously including the repeated high B solo where Jokanaan is executed in _Salome_. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Dynamics [was: 8th = Q]

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
I like those symbols too. According to Grove Concise, Schoenberg called the first one "Hauptstimme" ("head voice"). Me, I prefer the traditional "in sopra" and "sotto voce." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
e until by ca. 1700 orchestral sections contained cellos alone. It was only after this that the word "violone" was transferred to the double bass, which also joined the orchestra at about that time (17th-c. orchestras had no 16' voice). Andrew Stille

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
f no room, or because the work was originally intended not to include them. In this case, the composer helpfully says as much (no room) at the head of the score, and refers the reader/conductor to the "accompanying separate parts"--which are now missing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
t considered, both legally and artistically, to be a fully original composition in its own right. Similarly, any composer's "Variations on [X]" is not deemed an arrangement, whether [X] be copyrighted or not. Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Have you got a cite for the 8-10 levels that contradicts the 3dB discrimination? Dennis No, sorry. This is stuff I read ~35 years ago, I don't remember where. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ F

Re: [Finale] Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
contrabasso, contrabajo, kontrabas; and the increasing internationalization of classical music-making in the last 50 years has pressured English to come into line. Similarly, the traditional Spanish name for the horn, trompa, has been gradually changed to cuerno to avoid confusion outside the

Re: [Finale] Chalumeaux and Finale

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
. I agree with this. The chalumeau was normally quite a small instrument and even the bass size would have been no bigger than a modern clarinet. FWIW, the octave-down bass clef was also used in bassett horn parts right into the 19th c. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Weiss, but I can't help but thinking, each time I hear one of them, that if Handel had done the exact same thing--taken a Weiss lute part and added new orchestral accompaniments--that we would not hesitate a moment to ascribe the resulting work to Handel, not Weiss. Your thoughts? And

Re: [Finale] oslash

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
c 2K4. Screwed up my catalog when I updated it. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 15, 2006, at 5:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 15 Feb 2006 at 10:35, Andrew Stiller wrote: Editions are prepared all the time for reasons irrelevant to or even in direct opposition to the composer's intent. Simplified versions. Cut or excerpted versions. Modernized ver

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
anguage is communication, and if communication is achieved, no further justification is required. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Dynamics [was: 8th = Q]

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
e pipe built just for that one note. The resulting ethereal whistle was very pretty--but Schoenberg didn't want that. He wanted the audience to hear the sound of Nature trying desperately to stay still in the hours just before dawn. Will a piccolo sound desperate trying to play th

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
the tail end of a morendo), but to say a clarinet (or a number of other instruments) can't play softer still, is an exaggeration. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Final

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
group of people who think any such notation represents "musical ignorance," and another that thinks, against all evidence, that such notations can be performed, and heard, literally. ' Nuff said. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ __

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 11:18 AM 2/15/06 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote: I basically agree with David Fenton that more than 8 or 9 different levels are impossible for the ear to distinguish. That can't be true. The very notion of shaping a line has

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
ass clarinet--which he certainly didn't want. A word to the wise. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
t you are using for an audience. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] 8th = Q

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
ore than 8 or 9 different levels are impossible for the ear to distinguish. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
fundamental distinction among these) is assumed *not* to be "work made for hire" unless a box is checked that specifically asserts that it is. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Final

Re: [Finale] TAN: another German question

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 14, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: If anything the German is just as ambiguous as the translation OK. Thanks for your help! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Editions and Publishing Rights

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
performance or recording. The notion that composers and scholars should be good socialists while everybody else has their hand out is deeply ingrained in the classical community--but that don't make it right. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.

Re: [Finale] TAN: another German question

2006-02-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
ken as saying "The first movement of this oratorio, written before the rest as my first composition following my return to Europe, can be played by itself as a tone poem." Or it can simply mean "This oratorio is the first thing I've written on the continent after a lifetime abro

[Finale] TAN: another German question

2006-02-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
he whole oratorio? The only known performance, BTW, was of the first mvt. alone--but who knows what *that* signifies! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] disappearing posts

2006-02-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
n been recorded a few times. IMO it's a very fine symphony and should be much more widely known. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] disappearing posts

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
by "Schubert's 9th" was meant the Great C Major or the Unfinished, since the two have recently changed places--and I attended a concert last week in which the C Major was performed as Symphony No. 8. Just asking... Oh: and why are my postings, some of them, disappearing?

Re: [Finale] OT: Scoring for orchestral works, can anyone help?

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
/timp./str. Sorry, I don't have the Leonora Overtures. Berlioz: Symphony fantastique 2 (II=picc).2 (II=EH).2.4/4.2.3.0, 2 crnt, 2 oph/timp. perc (BD, SD, cym, bells). 2 hp/str. NB: Berlioz later authorized the use of tubas to replace the ophicleides. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] 256th notes

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
e, and not infrequently commits 256ths--usually at the end of an upward or downward rip containing an odd number of notes. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailma

Re: [Finale] 256th notes

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
the number in the duration box. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] I can't get gpo to work with finale

2006-02-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
all these things "manually" takes very little time, assures that the score will be exactly as you want it, and avoids precisely these kinds of unnecessary snafus. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Different font issue...

2006-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
use the equivalent character from another font. Every music font will have it, and you should be able to find one that closely resembles the one that's missing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] font trouble

2006-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Thanks to all who responded on this. I in fact had already tried most of the things suggested. Anyway, these were Hebrew fonts. I needed to use one of them immediately because someone had placed a rush order for a particular work that had to be updated from Finale 2K, and the existing Hebrew fo

[Finale] font trouble

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
lp is urgently requested! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Has Finale (or desktop publishing) created a revolution in music?

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
er and Theodore Front--but neither of them has any interest in my orchestral parts, just the scores! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Has Finale (or desktop publishing) created a revolution in music?

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
Well, both Finale and Sibelius have tried to set up online archives of scores, but they're so full of junk that nobody uses them that I know of. In our field at least it remains a truism that you get what you pay for. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Pre

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
performance. If it doesn't, then the most sensible interpretation would be that he simply found it easier/less expensive to print them in an unorthodox format. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list F

Re: [Finale] Si vs. Ti - Do

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
s of Europe, only French continues to use the full set of orginal syllables, which were Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La [Si]. Anyone who wants to sneer at Ti must also, logically, sneer at Do[h]. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
unless there is specific evidence to the contrary. Any other assumption is simply not parsimonious. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Two vertical systems on a page

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
Andrew Stiller écrit: But they can. There's a radio button for that in the Change Clef dialog. But that won't work if you want the time sig and the key sig also, because the clef will appear after them!!! Dennis So introduce an extra blank measure, of very narrow width, with

Re: [Finale] OT Contemporary music and anti-intellectualism [was: Happy 250th Birthday Mozart]

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
le. That's all I was saying, and it fits the dictionary def. perfectly. As I think you know perfectly well. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] bulk multimeasure update?

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
file just opened, saved, and closed w.o ever going to the Page Setup dialog. Furthermore, I seem to have overwritten the Command Reminder script in the process. How do I get it back? That was my first attempt at using FinaleScript. I am not impressed. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press ht

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart - now Finale list vs D. F.

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
cuss, they will not be able to initiate or sustain any kind of dialog unless they do so in polite language--nor will they be able to get their jollies from having people blow up in response to their verbal bombs. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netco

Re: [Finale] Two vertical systems on a page

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
The blank measure on the same system won't really work easily because of the clefs that can't be forced to appear after it. Dennis But they can. There's a radio button for that in the Change Clef dialog. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netco

Re: [Finale] OT Contemporary music and anti-intellectualism [was: Happy 250th Birthday Mozart]

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
, up-to-the-minute musical style (as of, say, Daugherty or Salonen--highly atmostpheric, often turbulent, historically self-conscious) then Hovhaness doesn't fit at all--but what would you expect from a composer born in, what, 1911? Andrew Stiller Kallisti

Re: [Finale] [Fwd: Musical Humor]

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
that way, in the interests of historic authenticity... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart - now Finale list vs D. F.

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
se me?" Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT Contemporary music and anti-intellectualism [was: Happy 250th Birthday Mozart]

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
on of the local retailers. I was referring not to classical style, but to *contemporary* style (by which [and I shouldn't have to say this] I mean contemporary *classical* style). See, this is what happens when you misuse the word "contemporary." "When the word is gone

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
n for one of George Sand's novels was 400 copies. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT Contemporary music and anti-intellectualism [was: Happy 250th Birthday Mozart]

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Andrew: When I read my comment There is in the U.S. a dogmatic divide between "contemporary" and "classical" music that just does not exist in Europe. and your reply I reiterate (for the third time now in this thread, so far w.o rejoi

[Finale] RE: classical concert prices (was: various)

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
Prices here in Philadelphia are comparable to those cited for San Diego. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] verses

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On 28 Jan 2006 at 17:40, John Howell wrote: Personal opinion: Any song with 10 verses shows lack of craft on the part of the poet So much for most of the Child ballads... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
to bear in his study of the issue. For more details, see my review of the book (as "Myocastor") at Amazon.com. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT Contemporary music and anti-intellectualism [was: Happy 250th Birthday Mozart]

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
o longer the case in Philadelphia. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] verses

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
t the music with new text? One solution you sometimes see (for example in publications of folk-ballads with innumerable verses) is to write out the music twice, thus allowing you to underlay 6 verses in just three lines. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kal

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
ortly after 2013 it'll be declared an old war-horse. Fascinating! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
of fashion, like clothes, and became of merely historical interest, and when a composer's fame was no more than that of a couturier? Not me, that's for certain. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
blindness to imagine that Mozart's music was "all-encompassing" either in its variety or in its audience. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
the composer is contributing new works. You may rail against this as unfair, but the situation is as it is. The very concept of "masterpiece" is intimately tied to the concept of "master," and you can't have one without the other. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press h

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
Andrew Stiller écrit: It's not my descendants I'm concerned about (I have none), but posterity in general. I flatter myself that some of the work I've done is of permanent, if specialized, value, and I am concerned that the dissemination of my Heinrich and Hiller publicatio

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
Then prepare a clear step-by-step process for anybody to follow who may want to print them out. -- David H. Bailey I've done that, sort of, but the problem is that any such instructions will be highly printer-dependent. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kal

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
good idea--but it still will leave the issues of booklet printing, selective manual duplexing, etc. for whoever to handle. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.e

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 1/25/2006 12:33 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >This is an issue for me for a totally different reason--I have been >trying to figure out how to keep the files of my publications alive >after my own death. It is good that you wan

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
font collection, wh. in turn will require that the recipient have a Mac to be able to use them all. It's a big puzzle and a big headache! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets & MM rests?

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Éric Dussault wrote: I'm not sure I remember ever seeing a Sans Serif font for tuplet in pre-computerized music publications, but I may be wrong. You often see it in contemporary music. See, e.g., Xenakis: Eonta (Boosey and Hawkes No. 799) Andrew Stiller

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets & MM rests?

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Éric Dussault wrote: I'm not sure I remember ever seeing a Sans Serif font for tuplet in pre-computerized music publications, but I may be wrong. You often see it in contemporary music. See, e.g., Xenakis: Eonta (Boosey and Hawkes No. 799) Andrew St

Re: [Finale] German question

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 21.01.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote: Query to the German speakers on this list: does "geschliffen" make sense in this context, and if not, what other reading might you suggest? That is correct, but very old-fashioned. A lot

[Finale] German question

2006-01-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
se in this context, and if not, what other reading might you suggest? BTW: the composer was a native speaker of German, so that's not the problem. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] RE: percussion maps (was: List Membership)

2006-01-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
t the expression is cancelled or overridden. Likewise, staff names such as "tomtoms" should be playback-configurable with no more effort than, say, "flute." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ F

Re: [Finale] Smart Slurs - Engraver Slurs

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
everyone who publishes with me to turn off engraver slurs before beginning their work. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] The Perfect Slur

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Christopher Oh that's just wonderful. Not. What if (as is very, very often the case) the destination measure is on a different screen? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be, necessary.

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
nly a (large) subset of Finale's tools. I rely on the cmd-click feature to access those tools that I use only rarely. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://list

Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be necessary.

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:20 PM, John Howell wrote: At 4:22 PM -0500 1/6/06, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: Not to mention the fact that some flutes actually *can* play a low Bb. I wasn't aware of that -- I've only encountered flutes which play to low B. Cool! I'

Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be necessary.

2006-01-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
ot to mention the fact that some flutes actually *can* play a low Bb. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be necessary.

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
sposing. Jeez, people, it ain't rocket science--or even isorhythm. And it *is* right there in one of the most frequently used dialogs in the program. I can see not reading the manual, but not reading the interface? That's like asking someone to hold your fork for you. Andrew S

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4 and other oddities

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
is was not commercial software, but it represents the starting point for any history of the medium. If I remember correctly, Hiller's early music programs were called MUSICOMP and MUSICOL. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___

Re: [Finale] Reverse Piano Reduction (sort of)

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
g (and isn't that everyone on the list?) will see the "preserve original pitches" option staring them in the face every time the dialog is open. It may be counterintuitive, but one may well ask why intuition is required here in the first place. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Pre

Re: [Finale] bulk multimeasure update?

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
e last two steps, you lose any editing of individual mm-rests that had been done (width of "measure", adjusted start- or end-point, etc.), and have to redo it all. Any thought on avoiding this? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.

[Finale] bulk multimeasure update?

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
FinMac 2K4. Is there any way to update the multimeasure rest symbol for a whole folder full of ochestral parts at once when updating them from 2K2 to 2K4? And how about the Page Setup dialog? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] extend secondary beams

2005-12-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
b projecting into the break in the second layer. Hope that's not too confusing. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
mitigated even by dynamic linkage. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
bol* for the inverted mordent does occur in Baroque notation, but it is not called that, nor is it performed so: it is, rather, a short trill, beginning on the auxiliary note like other Bq. trills. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/

Re: [Finale] saxophone alternate fingerings

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
used by itself, but if it were used alternatim with the regular fingering (like bariolage on a violin) the difference betw. the two would be clearly audible. As for notation, what I would do as a classical composer is not necessarily what would be appropriate for jazz, so I'll keep my mouth

Re: [Finale] Proposed self publishing E-list [X-posted]

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
list if it identifies itself with the former. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Fermattas in resting parts

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
a resting part. In such a case, a fermata over the default whole rest will convey every bit of information that the fermata contains, viz: "the beat is to be suspended ad lib. at the end of this measure." Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Pre

Re: [Finale] changing staff name

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 13.12.2005 dc wrote: In which case you could simply use Finalescript: search "csta." replace "cel." and be done with it. Excellent idea! Couldn't you also use Text Search and Replace? Of course I could! D

Re: [Finale] changing staff name

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 13, 2005, at 1:08 PM, ThomaStudios wrote: Update Groups in TGTools will do exactly what you need. I'm concerned that this plugin will revert the positioning of the two celesta staves to their default spacing. Will it not? --Andrew ___ Fi

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