On 28 May 2010 at 16:35, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
> David W. Fenton wrote:
>
> > I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible
> > Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast
> > MS in the role of "good guy" here, but I don't know of any software
> > for
On 28 May 2010 at 22:41, Daniel Wolf wrote:
> In general, David is right that the MS operating systems have been
> remarkably backward compatible and this has been a real positive
> quality with Finale files. However, a year or two ago, I had a font
> problem and tried to install to install my
David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible
Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast
MS in the role of "good guy" here, but I don't know of any software
for DOS/Windows that postdates the introduction of the IBM PC that
canno
In general, David is right that the MS operating systems have been
remarkably backward compatible and this has been a real positive quality
with Finale files. However, a year or two ago, I had a font problem and
tried to install to install my old copy of Fontographer — in its day
(frozen i
On 27 May 2010 at 17:34, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
> Finding a working copy of Windows 98 has been the biggest problem--the
> only one I found bombs on any computer that is not a Dell.
That's *very* odd, as the Dell OS disks are not tied to the hardware
at all.
I don't have any Win98 copie
Finding a working copy of Windows 98 has been the biggest problem--the only one
I found bombs on any computer that is not a Dell.
ajr
"David W. Fenton" wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 at 16:11, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
>
> > Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs
On 27 May 2010 at 16:11, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote:
> Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs a
> fresh copy of Windows 98 to reboot. I have all the data copied to
> Windows, and the program bombs after a few moves.
Have you tried copying the files to a newer computer
Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs a fresh copy
of Windows 98 to reboot. I have all the data copied to Windows, and the program
bombs after a few moves.
ajr
"David W. Fenton" wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote:
>
> > And computer music
>
On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote:
> And computer music
> files made 15 years ago can no longer be accessed
> and used by any modern computers as OSs evolve.
Is this really true on Windows?
I am surprised at the way Apple has handled OS X versioning. So far
as I can tell, if you brea
At 7:12 AM -0500 5/27/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Imagine what sort of nightmares musicologists in the 30th century will
have trying to decipher how those lead-sheets would have been performed!
Thanks to the technology of sound recordings, I
expect that musicologists of the 30
At 8:31 PM -0700 5/26/10, dershem wrote:
On 5/26/2010 7:55 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List (w
dhbailey wrote:
Imagine what sort of nightmares musicologists in the 30th century will
have trying to decipher how those lead-sheets would have been performed!
Thanks to the technology of sound recordings, I expect that
musicologists of the 30th century will have less trouble understanding
dershem wrote:
[snip]
There are always arguments on either side. Use what works best and
causes the fewest potential problems.
[snip]
Well, if you're going to think logically . . . ;-)
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
___
Fi
Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You don't play outdoor concerts where breezes make limiting
the number of pages open for any one piece a good thing, do you?
Da Capo and D.S. should provide no more confus
Yeah, I'm with him!!
On 27/05/2010, at 11:35 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> On 26 May 2010 at 20:15, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
>
>> Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out
>> again? Less confusion, I say.
>
> I'm against writing out conventional forms because it can obscure
On 5/26/2010 7:55 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List (who
does mostly jazz) would absolutely agre
At 8:15 PM -0500 5/26/10, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again?
Less confusion, I say.
You may certainly say so. And Adrian Drove on the Sibelius List (who
does mostly jazz) would absolutely agree. But back in the day when
every not
On 26 May 2010 at 20:15, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
> Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out
> again? Less confusion, I say.
I'm against writing out conventional forms because it can obscure the
form. If you're playing and having to ask "is this exactly the same
as the p
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-Original Message-
From: dc [mailto:den...@free.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:47 PM
To: finale-shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] Da capo roadmap
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, th
At 7:59 AM +0200 5/26/10, dc wrote:
Thanks, John.
This is a soprano clef (C1) - a French violin clef would have the
piece starting on a major seventh.
Oops! The clef squiggle looked like a stylized "G," so I didn't
check the notes. Mea culpa!
John
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Mus
At 8:47 PM +0200 5/25/10, dc wrote:
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
The fermatas at the end of the first section are the standard way of
indicating the "Fine" of the Da capo.
On 25 May 2010 at 22:25, dc wrote:
> David W. Fenton écrit:
> >OK, I get it now. I hadn't actually looked at the *music* to realize
> >this is not a standard rounded binary menuet. The menuet itself has
> >to be played AABBAA, which is indicated by the lower Da Capo at the
> >end. That it ends at
On 25 May 2010 at 22:12, dc wrote:
> David W. Fenton écrit:
> >On 25 May 2010 at 20:47, dc wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
> > >
> > > There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
> > >
> > > www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
> > >
> > > The
On 25 May 2010 at 20:47, dc wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
>
> There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
>
> www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
>
> The fermatas at the end of the first section are the standard way of
> indicating the "Fine" of
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