Re: [Finale] fees?

2005-06-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
scheme, but should be understood as a Finale technical matter. 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] repeat bars

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
that! 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] new to Finale

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
by a boisterous parade. 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: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
, then it might be easier just to use the normal 5-line staff, and hide the unwanted line with a white-out expression, wh. could easily be copied from one system to another. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
: it is a largely historical usage. With certain very narrow exceptions, a five-lined staff for less than five unpitched percussion has not been considered best practice for fully half a century now. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] OT: Firefox

2005-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
as described. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] TAN: meaning of sample

2005-05-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
I see that in the liner notes for Nelly McKay's debut album there are two references to a sample of another song that turns out to be a quotation from the song rather than an electronic snippet of it. Anybody seen this bit of evolving usage anywhere else? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] OT: Firefox

2005-05-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
is demonstrably inferior to its predecessor? 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: Amazing

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
does it mean by ... --- Does it slobber? I say Probably. --- ... who's been training this thing?? I tried it with Occam's razor, and it proved absolutely clueless--which says something, but I'm not quite sure what. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] hiding/unhiding accidentals

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
if you so much as look at 'em funny. 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] Page Skips

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
-- clicks *don't* change the page (or the page number) and then a second click skips a page. I have *both* problems. I brought up the skipping behavior on this list a few months ago, and was assured that it was an OSX issue, not a Finale issue. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

[Finale] hiding/unhiding accidentals

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
to make hidden accidentals automatically reappear on a global basis *without* disrupting the numerous cautionary accidentals (including after ties across barlines) that this piece contains? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] pdf booklets

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
2-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] Treble clef in Cb part

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
is marginal or unimportant. 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] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts

2005-05-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
today, however, it is not essential to use any of these modified clefs, and a plain treble will do in any of the circumstances where it has historically been transposed. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts

2005-05-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
be worse, I am currently engraving an early symphony by Lejaren Hiller, whose legitimate distaste for the tenor clef led him, in this youthful score, to place high-lying bsn. and vc. passages in the alto clef! Needless to say, I'm overriding the MS on this one. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts

2005-05-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] pdf booklets

2005-05-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Another Notation Question!

2005-04-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
are made out of. All this is discussed in much, much more detail in Willi Apel's The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] Another Notation Question!

2005-04-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 28, 2005, at 2:55 PM, John Howell wrote: With movable type, beaming was not possible. Actually, it was and is, as numerous publications attest. The typographic principles involved are reflected to this day in music-in-text fonts such as MetTimes. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Engraver Font Display

2005-04-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 27, 2005, at 3:54 PM, d. collins wrote: Andrew Stiller écrit: Does anyone use Engraver font besides me? I use it as my default font. I find it by far the most attractive and legible of all the music fonts available today. By far the most attractive of all the music fonts available? Don't

Re: [Finale] Another Notation Question!

2005-04-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
another century. 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] Engraver Font Display

2005-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
the printed appearance of this font is so superior, but still... 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 BIG Switch: FinMAC to SIBELIUS 3.1 OS X?

2005-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
Noel wrote: and I would say in my defense that since I did not begin with Finale until 2k, I do not even have a user's manual from which to provide a first or second page. Sure you do. Just print out the first two pages of the OLD. Voilà! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] Maestoso spiced meat in a can

2005-04-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
blocked list because the subject line caused your messages to immediately be channeled into my Spam folder AND your addresses blocked. It appears, then, that you need a new ISP. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Muted pizz.

2005-04-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
. 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: J.S. Bachs Instrumentarium

2005-04-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
limitations by providing it only slow notes to play. 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] FWIW: Feature suggestion

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Allen Fisher wrote: I'd rather have custom smart shape hairpins that I could attach text to. (A mezzo di vocetool is on my list too) That's *messa* [Italian: placement] di voce. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:35 PM, John Howell wrote: At 3:28 PM -0400 4/16/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: Certainly. But Rachmaninoff's use of the convention was by then no more traditional than Hindemith's use of the viola d'amore. Hindemith directed the Yale Collegium Musicum

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
. of course I don't), both the viola and the clarinet would be treble-clef instruments that switched to bass clef for low-lying passages. Just like the marimba. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
a unilateral decision, because the composer's wishes are sovereign. 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] Concert Pitch A: Europe v. America

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
but broadcast a continuous A-440 worldwide as the embodiment of the standard. 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: clef changes

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 17, 2005, at 4:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Apr 2005 at 11:43, Andrew Stiller wrote: With a concert-pitch score, the copyist will need to exercise more initiative than usual in deciding clef change issues, because quite obviously instruments with big transpositions will have parts

Re: [Finale] OT: 18th Century Trumpet question

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
required in two of the cantatas? 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: clef changes

2005-04-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Since my full-Boehm Bb clarinet has a low Eb key, I felt no compunction about using it for this piece instead, but I had to copy out the part a half-step up for me to play it. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
) or in multiple stops. Interestingly enough, the same piece sends the vc. below the *treble* staff in two other places--as low as the Bb below middle C. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
. the clef at all--but as a composer, I find it an unnecessary complication of the notational system. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:59 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 15 Apr 2005 at 10:12, Andrew Stiller wrote: The 8bassa notation hasn't been traditional for a century and a half. The cello arrangement of the Rachmaninoff Vocalise uses it, and that was unquestionably published less than 150 years ago, since

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
to get rid of the alto clef too, but the violists weren't having any... 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: clef changes

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Are you talking about [cello] treble clef at pitch or treble 8bassa, the traditional notation? The 8bassa notation hasn't been traditional for a century and a half. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
eighth notes, he fearlessly writes isolated notes as low a tenor c without leaving the treble clef. As an editor, my first reaction was to overrule him, but when I saw what the alternative would look like, I realized he was right. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] Re: clef changes

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: 8vb treble clef notation for cello is no longer used. You mean, in modern editions. No, he means in modern (and late Romantic) *compositions.* Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] How Do You Reposition Staves?!

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
dialog. 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; the launching pad

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
composer that is an atheist. Varese comes immediately to mind, and Copland right after. I'm sure I could dig up others with a little research. I find this line of thinking to be unutterably poisonous. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] launching pad/full of S---

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
virtually every composer is this way--I find that an increasing number of the nuts and bolts can be found in the handy bin of leftover nuts and bolts from earlier projects--also, gimmicks that worked once so why not do it again? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] ot; the launching pad

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
historically persecuted ethnic group) as atheist, and also because any discussion of the question would raise the miserably contentious issue of just who is a Jew and who isn't. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

[Finale] old Mac font

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
of this font's name makes it not appear in the Viewer, so I'm flying blind here. 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] Orchestral parts

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
wind parts are absolutely verboten. I don't think it's coincidental that the countries where such parts are commonplace (France is not the only one) are also notorious for bad engraving and flimsy, acid-laden paper. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Letter shortcuts.

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Oh well. I believe the preferred term for Apple computer users is Macinista. Shouldn't that be manzanista? RE German Macker--cf, perhaps, British wanker? Can't think of an appropriate Americanism... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
Andrew, is there no Consolidate Library command in your OS 9 version of iTunes? That's the command you really want -- it will move everything to the iTunes Music Folder specified in your preferences. - Darcy If there is, it's not in any menu or submenu. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-31 Thread Andrew Stiller
album Have you tried this? steve I tried it just now. It seems to be already set up. In any event, all my sound files are aiff. Aren't they higher fidelity than MP3? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 28, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 28 Mar 2005, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 26, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: Can't you select a tune in itunes for 9 and hit command-r for reveal original? This shows a bunch of stuff where you'd expect

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
that when my current computer dies, the publication goes out of print. 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: 18th Century Trumpet question

2005-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
that played just two notes, and the alto e basso just 3. 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] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
folders containing the word Music does not reveal an alternative. Ideas? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Stiller
How do I import the playlists and libraries from my System 9 copy of iTunes into my OSX copy? 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] Pick-up measures

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
, whether the piece was going to be in major or minor mode--and they probably would have assumed the former. The definitive turning to the dark side a few bars in must have been a deliberate effect on B's part, but it's impossible to hear that today, because we know in advance what's coming. Andrew

Re: [Finale] pick-up measure

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
pointing out that people can mean different things by these expressions, and that it causes confusion in reh. sometimes. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] pick-up measure

2005-03-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
have totally different sets of rehearsal letters, and the orchestra members have had to go thru their parts and pencil in all the choral letters, which are in different places than the orchestra's letters. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] pick-up measure

2005-03-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
, and exactly where it ended in any given piece. 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] pick-up measure

2005-03-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
particularly clear when there is a repeat sign back to the beginning, and the pickup forms the back end of a measure that has already been numbered, just before the repeat sign. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] American Styles (was Best Works of the 1920s)

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 14, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Mar 13, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: In 1820? *What* interior heartland? There was an interior alright, but it was very sparsely populated and could hardly be considered the heartland of anything. Good point. I would just amend

Re: [Finale] American Styles (was Best Works of the 1920s)

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
!) John Yeah, sorry about that. I got my copy of _The Birth of the Orchestra_ at a prepublication price of $70.00, which looks like more and more of a bargain to me as time goes by. Those of you who missed out--well, that's what libraries are for :-) Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] American Styles (was Best Works of the 1920s)

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Stiller
American popular music, and it contradicts your highly romanticized interpretation at every turn. 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] Authentication schemes

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
to use one were it provided. Long ago, Nora Ephron defined a distinction between Basic Worry and Baroque Worry. Worrying about a disastrous hypothetical combination of corporate, backup, and hard-drive failures is definitely Baroque. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] OT: Best Works of the 1920s

2005-03-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
such list is acutely sensitive to the exact definition of best and piece, so that others may quite legitimately come up with lists that contain none of my entries. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Extend secondary beams

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
figure in one layer, with normal beams, then create a unison of the triplet only in another layer, make sure the beams overlap perfectly, then extend both beams of the triplet. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] String divisi

2005-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
: A Question of Strings, JAMIS 3 (1977), 64-99; and Terminology for the Bass Violin in Seventeenth-Century Italy, JAMIS 4 (1978), 5-42. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] String divisi

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
indifferently for low-pitched gambas as well, and instruments of either type could appear in the continuo section of 17th-c. orchestras. All this info comes from _The Birth of the Orchestra_, wh. I have mentioned frequently here and wh. I strongly recommend to anyone interested in the subject. Andrew

Re: [Finale] OT Bass low B

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Stiller
is scordatura regardless of the notation. 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] String divisi

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 3, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Ken Moore wrote: ... some bass[es are] five-string (bottom string usually tuned to C in the US, B in Europe) B? That's a new one on me! Can anyone cite a composition (orch., chamber, or solo) that actually requires that note from the cb? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music

Re: [Finale] Tied note starting a coda

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
. This would be a Martha Stewart-like Good Thing, IMHO. Christopher I agree completely, and have CCd Macsupport accordingly. This would be a truly elegant and desirable extension of an already extant function. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

[Finale] Fwd: [Public Knowledge] Trouble Locating Copyright Owners? Tell the Copyright Office Your Story

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
I thought the following might be of interest to some list members. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 1, 2005 5:14:49 PM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Public Knowledge] Trouble Locating

Re: [Finale] Tied note starting a coda

2005-02-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
of tying it right then editing the tie in Special Tools to go backwards won't work. Create a unison in a second layer, tie both notes and kludge one of them. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
). And a negative number removes space. Aaron. I find this plugin absolutely invaluable, and strongly recommend it to anyone who doesn't know about it. I find myself using it dozens of times in virtually every one of my projects. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

[Finale] Re: OT: French diacritics (was: German sz)

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
In fact, all the French accent marks represent suppressed Latin consonants or syllables. They were introduced in the 17th c. in response to the then widely held notion that all language change represented a decline from an original, God-given perfection. The French accents were intended to rope

Re: [Finale] TAN Magic Flute (was Garritan and other stuff)

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
than Goethe, who even wrote a sequel to it; the opinion of an author of such stature is not, I think, lightly to be dismissed. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
-down--and they can. 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
the figure 150 because that's how old Janacek is, this year. I meant merely that having sustained (and grown) a reputation for so long, a composer is unlikely subsequently to lose it. I stand by that assertion. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
Since he dangle his grammatical temporal dongle, I wonder if he'd clarify if he meant the fame from the late 18th century on, or the composer from the late 18th century on. Dennis Fame--or rather, reputation, wh. is what I was really talking about. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] Re: Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
up the spine is guaranteed. Don't have to be trombones. 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
of lasting merit get rehabilitated after a few decades in the doghouse. As far as I can see, this is a one-time, one-way process. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] TGTools v2.32

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
As long as we're on the subject of plugins, may I make a request for one? Finale's Unconventional Key Signature algorithm hasn't changed a bit since Finale 1.0, largely because it is so specialized a feature that Coda/MakeMusic have never felt any urgency to improve it. That being the case,

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
, extramarital affair with Kamila Urvalkova. And BTW, it's not up to you to decide whether J's music is very good or not. On that point, the verdict of history is in, long since. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
? Sound recording? Are these things not important? not musical? not from science? Beyond that, there is the less measurable by very important influence of acoustic and music-psychological theories upon compositional styles, going back at least to Berlioz. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http

Re: [Finale] For the Birds

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
of rules learned by the brain during language acquisition. Steven Pinker's recent book about irregular word forms demonstrates pretty conclusively that irregular forms are stored in the brain as if they were separate words, not as grammatical inflections. . -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
imagine a great many of Nicholas Cage's fans know that. -- 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
overlap of adjacent chords, and quasi-arpeggiations where two successive chords were meant to be heard as if played simultaneously. It is very thoroughly and unambiguously documented both that he got the idea from acoustic theory, and that he consciously applied it in his own work. -- Andrew

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
. Now prove 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
as successful (moving, exciting, attractive) as other musics? Could other music, composed on the same principle, be more successful? No, and no. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
an impulse up the auditory branch of the VIII cranial nerve, which impulse is eventually processed by the brain. Everything we have been arguing about here has to do with what the brain does--the rest is simple physics. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
--they certainly were considered eminently marriageable. -- 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
intervals are absolutely dissonant and absolutely consonant respectively, and without regard to musical context. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
on precisely such means for its effect. Very interesting that composers (some, not all, thank goodness) decided that how their music affected their audiences no longer mattered. This is a straw man: There never was any such composer. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
that end with a fadeout on a repeating, non-cadential phrase and have no definite ending sonority at all. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
of men's mystery is hooey. No, hooey is too mild a term. It's undisguised gender hatred: if someone said such a thing to my face I'd demand an apology. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Stiller
that, but it was a marginal practice). -- 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] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
At 12:29 PM 2/2/05 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote: Another crrosspost from Orchestra-L: The pioneer figure was Arnold Schoenberg, with his theory of the emancipation of dissonance The theory, and the term, belong to Charles Seeger. The emancipation of a large chunk of the American population

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Stiller
thread. The whole computer industry now reminds me of the auto industry in the '50s. -- 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] up grade advice

2005-02-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
Andrew Stiller wrote: Press three keys to toggle scroll/page view? Give me a break! don't blame Panther for decisions which MM made. What else? Johannes MM wouldn't have made the decision if there hadn't been an OS change. My whole point is that the decisions made by MM in trying to accomodate

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