Phil:
Christopher's explanation looks pretty good, but I'd just add a couple
points: if you're still running Windows XP, as I recall, you don't need
to worry about permissions, because users are set to have administrator
privileges by default. You can create users (say for children or
Lawrence:
If you've not examined the file properties in the properties dialog,
that might be worth a try. From Finale, and one of the files you can't
see in WE, and select the save-as option from the file menu. Left
click on the filename in the save-as window, and open the properties
dialog
Ryan wrote:
Are there any online cheat sheets on how to read medieval notation,
mensural notation, and whatnot?
If you've not ready done so, you might peruse the 16,400 results I
obtained by using my favorite search engine using the parameter reading
mensural notation.,
ns
Friends,
Last evening, on NPR's 360, heard an interview of Darcy on the topic of
his new release, /Brooklyn Babylon/. Good album, good interview. Way to
go, Darcy. For those who missed it, or who ant to hear it again, with a
bit of Mel Brooks on the side,
Linda:
The real timesaver for you in this situation is one of the fonts that
Dennis mentioned in his post in this thread, the Bach Musicological
Font; It is available as a free download,
http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachfont/. This is a font that is
designed to do exactly what you want. You
Linda:
The real timesaver for you in this situation is one of the fonts that
Dennis mentioned in his post in this thread, the Bach Musicological
Font; It is available as a free download,
http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachfont/. This is a font that is
designed to do exactly what you want. You
Ryan wrote:
I was confronted with this exact situation, but after replacing the hard
drive, and finishing the project, the system board failed. I pulled the
recently installed hard drive, placed it in an external drive housing,
and used it as a backup device for my new computer.
ns
Dennis,
Regarding your question,
Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small
variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one
syllable in one verse but two syllables in another.
What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows the
dc wrote:
I'm afraid this question has already been asked, possibly by me!
How many verses can decently be put under the same music without it
becoming very hard to read? I'd say three or four at the most, but I'm
no singer, so I'm not sure even four is not too many.
This is a cultural issue.
Phil Daley wrote:
Yes, but . . .
Verses on a different page are even harder to read than multiple ones under
the music.
Very much, in my opinion, a matter of acclimation. If you talk to
someone who is accustomed to the layout of hymnals in the UK, they
declare a great deal of discomfort
SN jef chippewa wrote:
i am doing a short orchestral score and in the final section the
whole orchestra (and i assume audience) are invited to sing along on
the tune Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond.
where would you mark the lyrics in the score?
You don't have to do it this way, but I'd add an
Chuck Israels wrote:
...snippage... Perhaps there are some conditions in which the Finale page
size and the printer set up should not match, but I can't think of why that
should be.
Besides the reason Jim Cooper mentioned, of printing booklets, there's
another reason. If one is wishes to
dc wrote:
I've done this hundreds of times, but suddenly I'm drawing a blank: how
to you remove the all horizontal adjustments in the notes when you have
several layers (so the notes are all vertically aligned)? I'm using
Finale 2008.
I'm awat from my engraving machine at the moment, but I
Robert Patterson wrote:
I am trying to replace the Maestro Default File in Finale 2012, but it
appears to have an extension other than .mus (in MacOS). The problem is
that the Hide Extension flag is set in get info and the os won't let me
change it. What's is the extension for Maestro Default
My experiences are not quite what Ryan described, but perhaps this is
because I use WinFin, rather than MAC. Yes, to force the display of an
accidental, I select the note in speedy entry, and press the *. Also,
to place the parenthesis around the note (which I don't always do for
courtesy
Christopher Smith wrote:
I stand happily corrected! Is this new in 2012? They don't seem to document
these little things.
Sorry, but they do document these things. Open the documentation for any
version of Finale, check under Resize tool, and look under Special
mouse clicks. The very
Friends, and future friends,
When Christopher Smith wrote, in part:
Remember you have FOUR possible ways for the Resize tool to work; on
notes, on staves, on systems (this is the one you want) and on pages.
Resizing pages changes the titles as well, so you probably don't want
this.
his has
Dennis
WRT to the screen size, of your netbook, about which you wrote, in part
Snippage...
Unfortunately at 1024x600, my netbook screen is too small for it. Aria isn't
resizable, ...more snippage ...
Any ideas on how to access stuff like the pedal controls, etc.?
Since I've yet to see a
Giz:
While my first inclination would be to echo the suggestion of those
suggesting addition of a hard drive, it doesn't answer your question. As
far as I can tell (and I'll admit here that I've not yet upgraded to
2012), you can probably safely decline to install Garritan instruments
and the
Peter Taylor wrote:
Should a punctuation mark be after a word or at the end of the extension
line? :
a) peace; __
or
b) peace __ ;
For whatever my opinion might be worth, if the extension is only an
extension, I prefer the first option; where the word extension is
Peter
This is how I'd approach your situation.
I do concur with those who advise that this is a non-standard usage of
word extensions, but I can also perceive that they may not, in fact, be
extensions, but instead have another use. Therfore, first verify with
your client exactly why she has
John Howell wrote:
that's true up through Mozart
as far as sacred music goes.
but I would note that it's also true for a significant portion of
English Cathedral Music up through the present time. While much of the
music is quite lovely with a mixed choir, the choirs with whom the
composers
Johannes,
Yes, I can confirm that Finale 2k1 works with WIN XP SP3. I regularly
use Fin2k with that same OS.
ns
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Can someone confirm that Finale 2k1 works with WinXP?
Thanks,
Johannes
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Putting the punctuation after the word extension is sufficiently
non-standard that I'm really not surprised that Finale doesn't support
the practice. But I'd add to Steve Parker's workarounds, hard-coding
word extensions using the underscore (_) character, and place the
punctuation at the end
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Space as usual, and for the last syllable before the comma, use a hard
(non-breaking) space (ALT+0160) and then type the comma.
but wouldn't this result in the word extension still following the
punctuation?
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Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Except there is no native way to import finale files. If they want
finale users that bad, then they should have Sibelius able to open up
to finale 2011 files right from the program. They used to, I believe,
have something like this in a previous version
Which is true;
Andrew Stiller wrote:
FinMac 11, OS 10.6.6. With this combination I find I can no longer print a
pair of letter-size pages next to each other on an 11 X 17 sheet (i.e. 2
portrait-oriented pages on a landscape-oriented sheet).
Have you updated your printer driver since you upgraded your OS,
Michael Lawlor wrote:
[Finale 2009]
I have just moved Photoshop Elements onto the machine I have Finale on and
get the message that *.ASV files are assigned to Photoshop; do I want to
reasign them to Finale [Yes was my response].
What is the best way around conflicts like this? Can I
Marcello Noia wrote:
Making the conversion I get an Adobe error telling that the owner of the
font
(Macromedia) doesn't allow to embed the font in PDF's (unbelievable!).
Not so unbelievable. Embedding the font in a ~.pdf file means that the
recipient of the ~.pdf can get the file without
Michael,
After some further investigation, I found that if you want to use GPO,
the GPO sample set contains separate samples for violins played arco,
and for violins played pizzicato. What I don't yet see in the time I've
had available, is how to change GPO samples with an expression. Until I
Eric,
Regarding the comments you wrote:
Couldn't you define the expression to send the note that switches the
patch to pizz? And then define an expression to send the note to
change them back to arco?
Yes, one could, and that seems to be the way to do it.
In the documentation, under the
Michael
About the situation you describe:
I have just started (~30 bars) entering a work into Finale [2009] and I have a
problem with volume. There is a short passage of pizzicato followed by a
return to arco (the work is for string quartet and uses VST instruments). The
volume in the
Michael Lawlor wrote:
I am looking for a laptop for Finale 2009 (although I may want to
upgrade). Any recommendations on what to look for or avoid?
I, too, am beginning to consider a new Laptop. I don't think I've yet
seen a new laptop that won't run Finale adequately. But while I don't
Friends,
When David W. Fenton wrote, in part:
2. click on the slur tool.
3. you now see handles for all the slurs in your whole piece.
this will work, but note that you will also see handles for any other
smart shapes in the screen.
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dershem wrote:
This is useful.
What I would find more useful would be how to get items with the staff
style rhythmic notation not to play back.
Why not use the same technique: put rhythmic notation items in a
dedicated layer (say layer 3), and set the layer not to play back. Or,
perhaps
One other caveat about part of what David H. Bailey wrote: a ~tif file
must not only be uncompressed, but a single layer file, so transparency
in the tif format is not supported. Also, since Jim doesn't indicate
what version of Finale he is using, at least not in any of the messages
from him
Jim Fischer wrote:
Can I paste a desktop graphic I copy onto a finale sheet ie. composer names
from a lead sheet
Yes, assuming that the graphic you want to copy onto the finale sheet is
in the proper format.
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Aaron Rabushka wrote:
...but it is sometimes neVAYduh, MO (with either mizzuREE or mizzurUH
trailing along)
and to go back to Illinois, for a moment, the small town just South of
Rock Island, is MEYE-lan [Milan], the community in the South Eastern
part of the state is VEYE-enna [Vienna].
Brian Williams wrote:
... I want the first bar of the new key at the start of a system and can't
make the tie end into the first note in the new key appear.
I tried printing to pdf and the tie end doesn't appear on the printout
either. This seems like a long-standing bug that was never fixed.
Ryan
Your message containing the question about 2-bar repeats, which you
mailed from a different address in the gmail.com domain, was
distributed to the list. The copy in my in-box is timestamped at 1452 on
4 March. It was on my list of things to do to research this question,
but I've not
Friends,
I would pretty much concur with Mr. Waterfall's analysis as far as what
the information processing industry would like to see happen. I am far
less convinced that what they want to see is what will actually occur,
at least to the extent that they want it to. While it's true that
John Howell wrote:
When I look at actual published piano music, I am appalled at how widely
it is spaced and at how much space and how many pages it takes up.
I suspect this is an issue with the printing choices, especially today.
I've don't remember ever having seen a volume of piano music
Nick Raspa wrote:
I have been unable to get the copyright symbol to print on a couple of
scores and parts. The font is times and I've ensured that all the fonts
are embedded when I convert it to post script...
Have you verified that Whe times font being accessed when printing
contains the
dershem wrote:
A friend is using Finale 2011, while I don't upgrade that often and use
2010. (Both Windows). What is the optimal way for me to read files he
sends me?
If you just read the files, you can use Finale Notepad 2011, or the free
download, Finale Reader. Unless the files he is
dc wrote:
... And I
think having two noteheads would be more confusing and harder to read.
I don't think there's a need for two noteheads in this situation, though
if the time values were doubled, there obviously would be. However, if
one were to decide to use two noteheads, I would be
Steve Parker wrote:
Is it possible to send a score file to someone?
Sometimes. The person to whom you intend to send the score file has to
have the same, or a later version of Finale to open the file; if they
have a later version than you do, and they edit the file, if they send
the edited
Steve Parker wrote:
This is a pretty basic question on my part..
Do most start from a 'new default' document then add the title info and
instruments after?
I generally use templates I've created myself, containing my preferences
for fonts, and the expressions and articulations I need. If
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Is there a simple way to keep a score/parts transposed but have the key
signature be nothing?
One simple way is to uncheck Key signature in the list of items to
display in the staff attribute dialog box, but this may be an option
that must be chosen when one starts
Michael,
About your playback problem, if you have Human Playback activated, you
might try a different playback type (or none). I found out last July
that at least one of the Human Playback modes (Jazz) has a feature
which degrades playback.
ns
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Where I wrote
I found out last July that at least one of the Human Playback modes (Jazz) has a
feature which degrades playback.
please read Jazz as Romantic; it is the Romantic HP style which
degrades playback; Jazz does not.
ns
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Jim Fischer wrote:
Is there a way to specify how many systems per page?
I have three staves per system.
Trying to get 5 systems per page like I see in my Handel Messiah copy:
two staves piano and 1 stave vocal.
I looke in the index and no find - o...
I can't say there's not a method of
Alternate work-around suggestion: Enter the notation for the pick-up
measure first, then change the meter signature. to the final result.
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Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Is there any way of having group names show up on some pages and get
blanked out on others?
[For others who may consider venturing an opinion, I believe Aaron is
using Finale 2003 on Windows.]
Now on each system where you want the group name to show, make sure that
the
David McKay wrote:
I'm trying to put fingering on a simple copy of Australia's national anthem
for a young piano student.
I made a copy of Yellow Submarine from scratch the other day and was able to
do it fairly easily using the Articulation tool in WinFin 2011b.
Here's what I'd do: open the
David McKay wrote:
G'day
I love Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte, but I'm not referring to them, but
the habit of sheet music arrangers for piano to write out nice pianistic
arrangements, but without the lyrics. Why?
The answer might differ, depending upon the specific selection to which
you
Marcello
Regarding your MIDI issue, the first thing I'd make sure is that the
expression creating the swing feel applies to both staves. If the alto
and tenor parts are on separate MIDI channels, and you have the
expression assigned to the staff with the notes for the tenor, you won't
get
Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
What is the easiest way in which to create a measure which is without a
time signature, and in which I can place as many durations as I please,
and which will not count as Measure One? This is for an incipit at the
beginning of a motet.
What I've done is to define a
Florence + Michael wrote:
I recently received the conductor's score of Gounod's Faust (Henschelverlag
Berlin, 1972). I was surprised to find C-clefs used for the voice parts in a
score this recent
I'm not surprised to see them in a conductors score, as I've run across
others, while
Stan Lord wrote:
A few years ago I had to ask the same question and I got the solution.
There was and easy answer which involved changing a number - like 6 to 7 -
which would make the key sig flats instead of sharps.
In the Staff transposition dialog box, changing the value in the Key
Stan Lord wrote:
MacFin 2010.
I have a piece in E major and the tpt transposition comes out as 6 sharps.
How can I change this to 6 flats.
Well, you could change the defined transposition for the staff, or
change the transposition in the part after extracting it.
ns
Christopher Smith wrote:
I would be happy to substitute another serif bold (or sans!) font for my
Times New Roman if it had the diacriticals. Character Palette on my Mac
wasn't much help, as all the characters I need are only available in
Unicode, which is unsupported in Finale.
One way to
Blake:
I'm working with Finale 2009 on a Mac and I can't figure out how to extend a
quarter-note triplet pattern over a barline as in the following example.
First thing that comes to my mind is to fake it. Define a tuplet on beat
3, with two quarter notes in the space of one quarter,
Michael Lawlor wrote:
is there a way I can create my own bass oboe sound
Yes there is away, because I know that a year or two ago, when Garritan
had only a 3 octave set of handbell sounds, someone edited the Handbell
samples to create a five octave set. However, I don't know how to do it.
Matt Wilson wrote:
It works just fine with an M-Audio KeyStudio IO for the MIDI
interface, but the program crashes on launching when I have the installation
setup for an M-Audio ProKeys Sono 61. The keyboard interface is the only
difference between the setups.
Sounds to me like a question for
GERALD BERG wrote:
Brilliant! But unfortunately it means this old dog would have to learn new
tricks. I currently use Finale 2005 -- own 2006 but hate it. I understand
staff styles has greatly improved since -- so will save your solution for when I
get a new computer and update Finale.
The
Richard Huggins wrote:
It seems that both copies of the file ---the original misbehaving one
and the new one created by pasting into a fresh document--- are working
well now. I haven't been able to get the orig. to stack beat 1 anymore.
I suspect that this is because music spacing is a
GERALD BERG wrote:
I'm in need of a repeat sign that I can place anywhere in the score that I
want. Specifically staggered. A couple of instruments repeat on the barlines
but others are 2 beats in from the barline. The ones 2 beats in I would prefer
to have a dashed look. Any solution out
GERALD BERG wrote:
Big problem with the conventional repeat is that you can't create multiple staff
lists for where it appears.
True, but here's a workaround I used when I was confronted with the
situation you describe:
1) create the score, with the repeat bars (using the repeat tool) on
Richard Huggins wrote:
Status report: Nothing has worked once and for all. Weirdest thing I've
ever seen.
I think I may have found it. Since I don't have 2k7 installed, I opened
the file in WIN FIN 2k9, and found I had the same experiences you
described. The file appeared fine when I opened
Richard Huggins wrote:
Anyone have a clue or a tip?
One thing I would hope you would do for certain is to open a tech
support ticket with MakeMusic! and submit the file to them.
ns
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Christopher Smith wrote:
Sorry, but I don't think that is the problem. NO music spacing works at
all, whether manually applied or automatically, except Time Signature
Spacing, which is just bad. Turning off Automatic just means that you
don't see the problem until you try to apply a manual
Christopher,
First, there is a possibility that our respective installations are
behaving a bit differently; while I own 2k7, it's not presently
installed, and is not close enough at hand to conveniently do so, so
I've done my investigations in 2k9.
I doubt file corruption, partly I've had
Richard Huggins wrote:
I fear corruption in a file where if I make *any* edit to a measure of
music, all the notes of that measure pile up on top of beat 1.
Any time I've had corruption in a file, it wouldn't load at all, much
less permit me to edit the file.
ns
Richard Huggins wrote:
I fear corruption in a file where if I make *any* edit to a measure of
music, all the notes of that measure pile up on top of beat 1. Anyone
have a clue or a tip?
It sounds to me like a spacing issue rather than file corruption.
I don't have FIN07 installed (and even
Barbara,
Are these all in the same measure number region? If you've designed
multiple regions, the settings for one or more measure number regions
may be set not to print measure numbers.
ns
Barbara Touburg wrote:
Hello all,
I have a file where the measure numbers higher than 42, with an
Dr. Parsons,
Regarding your question:
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Matthew Hindson's Rhythms font did the trick
for me - very easy to use, and looks great. One question, though, Matthew: I
inserted some rhythmic figures in an email to show my colleagues what the font
could do, but
Ken Parsons wrote:
Within a text block, I'd like have several beamed eighth-notes. Using the
Expression Tool, I've only been able to insert flagged notes. Is there a way to
create beamed-notes for use in a text block?
OK, I'm confused, because text blocks and expressions are different
Haroldo Mauro Jr wrote:
Is there a way to find out whether there are hidden notes
You don't specify your version of Finale, but since WINFin 2k, there
have been two plug-ins, notes and rests (show) and notes and rests
(hide) which show or hide notes in a region designated by the mass
David:
I don't have any specific experience with what you're looking for,
although I strongly suspect that it does, in fact exist, but that it
when you find it, it will be an expensive piece of equipment to
purchase. My best suggestions: check with the local Allen or Rogers
organ dealers,
Friends,
In his initial report, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz reported on a sound lag in
playback using WinFin 2010, writing, in part:
I'm using the basic play Finale through Midi setting.
I offered off list to help him diagnose the problem if he wished to
share his file. He did, and in
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Yes, USB audio (Saffire Pro-40), directly into the machine. Other devices go
through the hub.
What happens if you playback through an external device through the
Saffire pro-40, like a digital keyboard, or ...?
If you have any earlier version of Finale
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Ah, well. For now I'll just close re-open the document when it gets annoying!
Actually, given the problems I have with MIDI playback, I'd like to see
you open a support desk ticket
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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Hi all,
First time actually working Finale 2010 (Windows XP Pro SP3)
I'm having a problem with increasing sound lag. The more I use the program,
the more the sound lags behind the note entry or playback. After about 15
minutes, the sound lags 5+ seconds.
I'm just
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I'm just using the basic play Finale through Midi setting.
More details, please, about your play Finale through MIDI settings.
What are you using as a playback device, softsynth (whose), or some
other method? For example, I've got Finale 2010 on WIN XP SP3 set up
Nigel Hanley wrote:
I receive Google alerts whenever someone searches for my blog, or my name,
which is hardly ever, but last night I got one and instead of it being from the
bloke whose blog I comment on, but he won't comment on mine, as usually is the
case, it was from this list!
Were
Nigel Hanley wrote:
Cecil, in many ways I agree with you. Full stop. I 'm equally not trying to
pick a fight, but am merely attempting to understand why the original owners of
such monumental works of popular music such as the Beatles' library are forced
to undergo legal proceedings to
dhbailey wrote, in part:
I ...snippage... am intrigued by the way that many people seem to
think that additional exposure to a potential wider buying audience is
what we musicians want,
I blame the model of the commercial radio stations for this. Years
before there was an all-talk, all the
Dr. Howell wrote:
I have no idea ... whether you remember the
Payola scandals of the '60s,
Though the payola scandals were within my lifetime, I'm not quite old
enough to remember them. I was looking at the issue from the
perspective of the end user, suggesting that the commercial
Dr. Howell,
Just a technical point: while Blake Richardson, the author of the post
to which you responded, did, indeed, quote David Bailey, Blake was the
author of the bit of the post post to which you responded, not David.
The problems arising from attitudes towards copyright (and I would
Robert Patterson wrote:
I've been writing music for some short video projects on the web. So far, I
have charged a flat fee for the composition, which gave the sponsoring
organization the right to host the video on their website. Now this is talk
of showing the videos in theaters and on TV as a
Ryan:
I am an organist, an on the basis of my experience, with respect to your
questions
I wonder if it's permissible to optimize out the pedal
staff if it helps fit music onto the page. Likewise, if there's a long
passage for pedal only, can I optimize out the manual staves?
Yes, you can,
Neal Gittleman wrote:
Any ideas?
My first idea: look for another expression in the vicinity of where
tempo changes to twice as fast, which you maybe duplicated from a
tempo expression, and failed to change playback.
ns
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Friends,
On NPR's Weedend edition (Saturday), I was listening to the host, Scott
Simon, interviewing George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival,
and about halfway through the interview, George mentioned listsib Darcy
James Argue.
From the website, the broadcast setment will be posted
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre wrote:
Would this be helpful?:
http://books.google.dk/books?id=v6qZUfRxZF0Cdq=Johann+Kuhnau+magnificatprintsec=frontcoversource=bnhl=daei=OckWTJLqEoaoOIXJpIcLsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=4ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw#v=onepageqf=false
The text on this page is Danish on my
Ryan wrote:
What type of paper do you prefer to use?
I prefer 70 lb. Springhill Offset in White and Ivory, in both 11 x 17
and 8-1/2 x 11. Stock number of 11 x 17 ivory is 24158.
But, you might also go to your paper vendor, and ask what you can get
that is close to what you previously
Martin Banner wrote:
...sometimes there appears a broken bracket around the
6 (marking that it is a sextuplet), and sometimes the 6 appears
without the broken bracket around the 6. Anyone know why this is
happening? I'd prefer to have the broken bracken appear in all
instances, but can't
dc wrote:
I know Ted Ross says this is used very seldom in published music, and
I wrote out the whole part myself. But this is a suggestion I've been
asked to follow...
If the one making the suggestion is the one who is going to be realizing
the part, I'd ask him or her exactly what they
dc wrote:
I think it's much easier to count to 60 than to try to follow the same
pattern line after line over more than one page.
If you literally mean counting to 60, I disagree, preferring instead to
count to 12 five times, or 15 four times. In my experience, large counts
are more likely
Friends,
Where John wrote, in part:
The major problem is that both Finale and Sibelius INSIST on relating
everything to bars, so even if the barlines are not there, the programs
think they are, and they will tie notes across non-existent barlines
rather than allow simple note values.
I find
John Howell wrote:
I haven't tried this, but it could be done as 3 (or more as needed)
separate scores exported and assembled on the pages, I would think. But
if we're transcribing into modern notation in the first place, I can't
think of a reason to do this. Extracting separate parts would
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