Doesn't the Brahms Requiem finish one movement with a huge fugue section that
is essentially a D chord?
-Steve S
NYC
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:58:24 +1100
From: Matthew Hindson (gmail) mhindson2...@gmail.com
Subject: [Finale] TAN: pieces or sig. excerpts based on one or two
When I did a Porgy Bess tour, Porgy said Bring me my cart!
I guess good directors find ways to adapt to being goatless.
-Steve S
NYC
In a message dated 5/11/07 1:01:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera (was Can you spot the fake?)
Toward the end of the
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Thanks, I'll try it!
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Subject: [Finale] key signatures
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Steve,
Hi,
On my ancient Mac (using OS 9.2.2 and Finale 2003a) I mostly write
arrangements for brass quartets from a variety of sources. Easiest for me is to
Set Up
the score with Bb Trumpets, and if I'm copying from non-trumpet sources, before
entering the parts I use the Staff tool to select each
Thanks for all the suggestions! I tried the first one first (see below), and
it works very easily. (Also, I've been using Simple Entry and now I've learned
something new about the advantages to Speedy Entry.)
-Steve S
NYC
In a message dated 7/27/06 1:02:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Hi,
In my current arranging project, I'm in 4/4, and have some bars where I need
quarter-note-triplets filling the bars (6 beats per bar), but... the first 2
beats of each triplet are a half-note. I can't seem to get Finale to accept
that. Any help? (I want to stay in 4/4, not be in 6/4.)
I'm
Well I know a trombone player that has taken some old trombones and flattened
them to be sculptures around his yard; one is mounted as a weather-vane on
the roof. While they are not being used to their noble :-) purpose, some might
say
--they are still making an artistic statement
--legions
In a message dated 6/21/06 1:01:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Finale] Kiss Me, Kate books
On 20 Jun 2006 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, 95% of the orchestration changes taking place in recent years on
B'way are for
Every time I've played the Schumann or Schubert symphonies, the parts were
1st-Alto Clef, 2nd-Tenor Clef, and 3rd-Bass Clef. The copies I have at home of
these parts are all like that. The score might lump the first 2 parts in 1 clef
for space-saving or to suggest some kind of group-treatment,
In a message dated 6/19/06 1:01:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Finale] Kiss Me, Kate books
In addition, as I have already said elsewhere, I don't think four
strings and four brass really do the score of Kiss Me Kate justice, but
that was
I'm not sure if the paragraph below is about Kiss Me, Kate or Company. In
Company, with Brooks on horn, was Jay Shanman on tenor trombone (who played
that
Side By Side solo 8 times a week for over a year!), still a great player, I
play trombone trios with him almost every week. (If there was a
Subject: Re: [Finale] Layout for ABA form
There's really only two types of music: good and bad. ~ Rossini
There's no bad music. Except Hawaiian ~ Pete Barbudi.
This from a guy who played the BROOM?
I've never heard anyone play the broom better than him!!
He even included the use of the
You might enjoy using parts of the Water Music. Also Mozart wrote a Church
Sonata that you might like. Perhaps the Earl of Oxford March. Also music by
Tylman Susato, or by Farnaby...
In a message dated 5/15/06 1:02:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: processional
Yes, as I said previously, GS patter songs are notated pitches, and usually performed that way, or as close to that way as the performer can get (I play in the orchestra for NY Gilbert Sullivan Players)...
Good example with My Fair Lady, but I wonder if the song was notated with pitches? I'm
In a message dated 4/1/06 1:01:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Robert C L Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Finale] music literacy
...Thus, one might reasonably say that the parlato songs in The Music Man
are a form of rap ...
Nope. They came long before rap. And their origins are
In a message dated 3/31/06 1:01:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Finale] music literacy
Is rap music?I don't think so, only in the way that African drum beats
are music. To which I would vote no . Maybe we need to back up another step
and
In a message dated 3/23/06 1:01:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am working on a little Canzona for Gambas or Trombones, and I need
exactly the kind of incipit that you have in your example.
As a trombone player with a fair amount of duets, trios
Speaking as a trombone player, I can report that (more in years past, not so
much these days) the trombone section's collective mind, seeing F, often
includes:
1) Let the games begin!
2) Are we aiming directly enough at the viola section?
3) Looks like I won't have to clean out
Just curious: do you happen to know what the instrument lineup is for this
symphony?
Thanks,
Steve S.
NYC
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:47:57 -0500
From: Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And BTW, there really is a 7th
Les,
Thanks: playing trombone in a couple of orchestras in the NYC area, I wanted
to know if I'd be playing if I was successful in suggesting the piece to be
performed!
-Steve
In a message dated 2/13/06 6:16:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Mariposa Symphony Orchestra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More instrument specific humour please- or even a source thereof!
Cheers K
Keith Helgesen.
--
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. - Richard Strauss
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer. - Cole Porter
Don't bother to look, I've
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park
Thought this site was funny...done in good spirit of course:
http://www.smilinggoat.com/crackers.html
and another variation for your viewing pleasure:
http://www.not-rocket-science.com/gates.htm
-Steve S, NYC
snip: In a message dated 1/29/05 1:01:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lon's point was NOT to be anti-technology, but anti-unfair-to-musicians
and pro-artists.
I agree! I see the line that should not be crossed as: Improved technology
should be created and used to help us, not replace us.
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In a message dated 1/15/05 1:01:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are plenty of free/shareware programs that can do this. If your
friend
has a disk for her soundcard or CD burner there may well be one on that.
Otherwise,
a neat little shareware program I use is CDWave www.cdwave.com
Thanks for your reply. Actually I'm not sure if I have the
full version! I'm not sure how to tell; it's been several years
since I bought it, and probably my use of it is fairly basic.
I have Peak LE 3.21 for OS9. My computer is a Beige
PowerMac G3, OS 9.2.2.
(I first got Peak 3.2, then
Hi again,
Broadway composers/orchestrators are given direction from the producers; I
believe they are told about the style and the number of players. I don't know
if
producers get into exactly which instruments to use. The AFofM contract
specifies only the *number* of players, which relates to
In a message dated 12/30/04 12:13:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The practice of Broadway pit orchestras including walkers who filled out
the roster but did not have to play, or sometimes show up, is a thing of the
past: it ended decades ago.
The collective bargaining agreement between the
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