Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-04-02 Thread John Howell
At 5:54 AM -0400 3/27/08, dhbailey wrote: I agree that there is a different psychological aspect to various movements in a multi-movement work, where one duple meter may be 2/4 and another be 2/2, but I still maintain that given the same piece of music with the same metronome indication for t

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale -more than slightly OT

2008-04-02 Thread John Howell
At 1:32 AM -0400 3/28/08, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Mar 2008 at 13:19, John Howell wrote: The problem (not a problem for them, but a problem for us in learning to interpret late 13th century Franconian notation) is that Franco used the same note shape to indicate both a perfect longa (w

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-04-01 Thread Owain Sutton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith > Sent: 25 March 2008 17:22 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale > > > > Though I wonder how F himself accompl

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Mar 2008 at 13:19, John Howell wrote: > The problem (not a problem for them, but a > problem for us in learning to interpret late 13th > century Franconian notation) is that Franco used > the same note shape to indicate both a perfect > longa (worth 3 breves) and an imperfect longa > (w

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-27 Thread John Howell
At 10:32 AM -0400 3/27/08, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Mar 2008 at 6:21, dhbailey wrote: > I knew immediately what John meant when he said "cut time in 3" as would many of the musicians I work with. I knew what he meant, too, but it's not a concept that those of us who perform music notate

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-27 Thread John Howell
At 8:18 AM +0100 3/27/08, dc wrote: John Howell écrit: Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to accurate. But 3/2 is fairly common in later Baroque music where it's an actual time signature and not a proportion. You often mention this shift from proportions to time s

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Mar 2008 at 6:21, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2008 at 0:12, John Howell wrote: > > > >> At 5:18 PM -0500 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? > >> Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to >

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Mar 2008 at 5:54, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 26 Mar 2008 at 6:39, dhbailey wrote: > > > >> David W. Fenton wrote: > >>> On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: > >>> > (Why > notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) > >>> This kind of c

AW: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Noah Cap
] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 12:39 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:39 AM, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: >> On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: >>> (Why >>> notate anyt

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-27 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Mar 2008 at 0:12, John Howell wrote: At 5:18 PM -0500 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to accurate. But 3/2 is fairly common in later Baroque music where

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-27 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 26 Mar 2008 at 8:18, Chuck Israels wrote: Joe Schwantner writes gorgeous music that I find difficult to read (my limitation - not the notation's) because he makes a point of choosing small note values; It seems to me that this statement of yours show that you agre

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-27 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 26 Mar 2008 at 6:39, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTL

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Mar 2008 at 0:12, John Howell wrote: > At 5:18 PM -0500 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? > > Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to > accurate. But 3/2 is fairly common in later Baroque music where it's > an act

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2008 at 8:18, Chuck Israels wrote: > Joe Schwantner writes gorgeous music that I find difficult to read (my > limitation - not the notation's) because he makes a point of choosing > small note values; It seems to me that this statement of yours show that you agree with my point. R

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2008 at 7:46, Phil Daley wrote: > At 3/25/2008 12:20 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > >> (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) > > > >This kind of comment makes me crazy. > > > >You notate it as 2/2 beca

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2008 at 6:39, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > >> (Why > >> notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) > > > > This kind of comment makes me crazy. > > > > You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DI

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT

2008-03-26 Thread John Howell
At 5:18 PM -0500 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to accurate. But 3/2 is fairly common in later Baroque music where it's an actual time signature and not a proportion. John -- J

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-26 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: Quite correct, except for one thing. The term (French) is "violoncello." I knew better. My story, and I'm sticking to it, is that the "i" is right next to the "o". ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread arabushk
Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? ajr > At 12:20 AM -0400 3/25/08, David W. Fenton wrote: >>On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: >> >>> (Why >>> notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) >> >>This kind of comment makes me crazy. >> >>You notate it as 2/2

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread John Howell
At 12:20 AM -0400 3/25/08, David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE PLAY 2/4. Certain styles

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Chuck Israels
On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:38 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: I know what he means, if I could jump in here. The listener might not make a distinction, but the performer reading it might react differently. In a previous post (I don't know if it made it to the board yet!) I had made a comparison

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:05 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Phil Daley / 08.3.26 / 7:46 AM wrote: Why? Or should I say how? That comment makes absolutely no sense to me. It does make sense to me as well as it did to Christopher. I think the key here is "style" as in "culture". Christopher Smith

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:40 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: [snip]> (An interesting exception to the jazz swing convention: the tune All Blues, which for some odd reason is usually notated in 6/8 with swing 16ths, rather than the more conventional 6/4 with swung 8ths (like two b

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: [snip]> (An interesting exception to the jazz swing convention: the tune All Blues, which for some odd reason is usually notated in 6/8 with swing 16ths, rather than the more conventional 6/4 with swung 8ths (like two bars of jazz waltz). Nutty.) But demonstrating tha

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Phil Daley / 08.3.26 / 7:46 AM wrote: >Why? Or should I say how? > >That comment makes absolutely no sense to me. It does make sense to me as well as it did to Christopher. I think the key here is "style" as in "culture". Christopher Smith / 08.3.26 / 7:38 AM wrote: >(An interesting exception t

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I hate to argue with David, but as a performer I know that playing something in 2/4 and in 2/2 definitely feels different. I'm not sure I have enough brain cells to work out why, or what it is that I do differently, but there is a difference. Sorry. Lawrence lawrenceyates.co.uk

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/25/2008 12:20 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: > >> (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) > >This kind of comment makes me crazy. > >You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY PLAY 2/4. Why? Or s

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:39 AM, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE PLAY 2/

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-26 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: (Why notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE PLAY 2/4. Certain styles of music make more sense i

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote: > (Why > notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?) This kind of comment makes me crazy. You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE PLAY 2/4. Certain styles of music make more sense in 2/2 than they would in

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Dalvin Boone
. Dalvin Boone - Original Message - From: "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Noel, Good solution! Also, I think the

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread shirling & neueweise
saying a musician -- or the audience for that matter -- can't distinguish a triplet (even if "partial") from the related non-triplet 8th value at the start of the piece is to seriously doubt the capacity of your musicians and audience. Well, sorry, Jef, but until and unless an audible pulse

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Mar 2008, at 3:17 PM, Ray Horton wrote: Wow, Darcy, the classical players with which you sometimes work sound like the jazz players with which I sometimes work! Of course there are jazz players with bad time. But all the other jazz musicians know that these players have bad time, and h

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:31 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote: This is fine for notational purposes, I guess (although I personally would be loath to write it that way). But it won't *feel* like a bar of 2/10 to anyone, because there's no rhythmic point of reference. Instead, it will feel like a

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Noel, Good solution! Also, I think the "Trance" rhythm reads a little better when it's *actually* notated in 12/8, without the incomplete triplets. You can see it written out here: http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argu

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread John Howell
At 6:03 AM -0600 3/25/08, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I did not find any old references to "tuplet" either, but every dictionary I consulted had definitions for "quintuplet", "sextuplet", and "octuplet", including the oldest one I own, dating 1920's. Personally, I've always considered "tuplet" to

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Christopher Smith wrote: Okay, so non-Finale-users have the opportunity to look [up the word "tuplet"] and find out what it means. But I would REALLY like to know where this word came from. I had never heard it before using Finale, and I still only ever see it used by Finale users (the Wikipedi

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Chuck, Indeed -- didn't want to let the conductors off the hook either! - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 25 Mar 2008, at 6:35 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: But, of course, it *is* possible for a large orchestral string

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Chuck Israels
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: But, of course, it *is* possible for a large orchestral string section to articulate with clarity -- I've heard it. The reason it doesn't happen more often is that most professional orchestral string players have poor time and a lack o

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Noel, Good solution! Also, I think the "Trance" rhythm reads a little better when it's *actually* notated in 12/8, without the incomplete triplets. You can see it written out here: http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argues_secret/2008/03/what-is-a-compo.html Cheers, - Darcy

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Mar 2008, at 3:17 PM, Ray Horton wrote: Wow, Darcy, the classical players with which you sometimes work sound like the jazz players with which I sometimes work! Of course there are jazz players with bad time. But all the other jazz musicians know that these players have bad time, and h

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Mar 2008 at 8:19, Christopher Smith wrote: On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:14 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: It's notational abominations that bother me. Granted, it's an old notation system being twisted to do things it wasn't designed for, so

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:11 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Hm, maybe I am a sensitive type? :-) I certainly won't groove (as in picturing the hot and humid Ipanema beach) if they are not written in 16th-8th-16th pattern. Notation is very phycological to me. Maybe just me, tho. I think notation is

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Mar 2008 at 8:19, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:14 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > $On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: > > > >> guys, really, get over it. this music is playable > > > > It's notational abominations that bother me. > > > > Granted, it'

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread A-NO-NE Music
dhbailey / 08.3.25 / 3:40 PM wrote: >No, but they sure as heck can tap on the "and" of 1 and the "and" of 2! ;-) This is getting fun! OK, let me ask you this. How many times you screamed when a singer started to count off with 1 and 3? You won't be able to start playing if swing tune wasn't c

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: Darcy James Argue / 08.3.25 / 0:44 AM wrote: But respectfully -- reading "Desifinado" written in 2/4 versus 4/4, not so much. If someone isn't familiar with the authentic bossa groove, handing them a chart in 2/4 isn't magically going to make them sound more convincing

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 08.3.25 / 0:44 AM wrote: >But respectfully -- reading "Desifinado" written in 2/4 versus 4/4, >not so much. If someone isn't familiar with the authentic bossa >groove, handing them a chart in 2/4 isn't magically going to make them >sound more convincing. (At least, not in

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
HI Hiro, Going to samba school in Rio, studying with Brazilian musicians, etc -- these things obviously make a big difference as to how the music sounds. But respectfully -- reading "Desifinado" written in 2/4 versus 4/4, not so much. If someone isn't familiar with the authentic bossa g

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:14 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: $On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: guys, really, get over it. this music is playable It's notational abominations that bother me. Granted, it's an old notation system being twisted to do things it wasn't designed for,

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:34 AM, dhbailey wrote: Do a websearch on "tuplets +music" and you'll get lots of hits which use that term. It's even found a place in the "wiktionary" so it's hardly just a term for Finale users anymore. When I use the term with people who have never used Finale, t

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On 25-Mar-08, at 2:20 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever heard or would understand such a term. An excellent example of a word springing into being because it was neede

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Owain Sutton
> > What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for > "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever > heard or would understand such a term. An excellent example > of a word > springing into being because it was needed, kind of like a > shoemaking

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Jef, Thanks for your comments. I find myself agreeing with much of it, especially this: some of it really does have to be played "as written" for the piece to work at all, but there are other times where, to conclude arditti's point, rhythmic detail definitely has to be mastered, but

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-25 Thread Ray Horton
Wow, Darcy, the classical players with which you sometimes work sound like the jazz players with which I sometimes work! Seriously - what kind of players are you talking about? Are these middle-of-the-pack free lancers in NYC, or what? Here, where we can have two hundred applicants for a sin

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread Owain Sutton
> > And I'm *still* not sure I grok what's going on in your Ferneyhough > example. Let me try again: > > You've got two notes of equal length in the 2/10 bar -- never mind > what to call them. Each note gets one beat. The tempo > indication says > e=68. Does the tempo indication mean *the

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Owain, On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:36 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: incompleteness of tuplets, using the names for note durations that actually tell you how long the notes are. What struck me immediately is Owain

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
$On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: > guys, really, get over it. this music is playable It's notational abominations that bother me. Granted, it's an old notation system being twisted to do things it wasn't designed for, so that's bound to result in nasty things. But then wh

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Mar 2008 at 20:40, shirling & neueweise wrote: > noone faults > richter for playing insane amounts of wrong notes Er, yes, many people do -- I do, for one. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Mar 2008 at 12:16, shirling & neueweise wrote: > late mozart string quartet Your argument would be helped if you didn't repeatedly use this vastly ignorant turn of phrase. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Mar 2008 at 3:31, shirling & neueweise wrote: > even as far back as chopin we have examples of tuplet values which do > not necessarily have a clear-cut, unquestionable relationship to the > metre (22:6/8, for example, or 5-lets in cadences that REALLY do NOT > function like quintuplets i

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 08.3.23 / 6:36 PM wrote: >Notational convenience, nothing more. The Brazillians wrote their >bossa novas in 2/4, but all those sixteenth note syncopations were >hard for American jazz musicians to read, so we renotated them into >cut time. Doesn't make any difference to h

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:18 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever heard or would understand such a term. oops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet Okay, s

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Owain Sutton
> there is a whole generation of musicians who have grown up > with the possibility of performing his music, and learning it from > people who had to "figure it out'" themselves. > I could not agree more. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu ht

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Regarding my suggestion of the solution to the puzzle Darcy posed by changing key signatures, it occurs to me that to make this to work, at the point the key signatures change, the tempo also needs to change so that the dotted quarter of the 12/8 bars equals the quarter of the 4/4 bars. ns __

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2008, at 5:55 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: That'd be no deal, anyway - they're not 'quaint', just historically-informed :p So historically-informed, in fact, that you insist on calling the note *without* a hook a "crotchet." Even the French, from whence you stole the word, get this on

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In the origin post for a moment, wherein Darcy asked about "another way", which question I have not seen an answer to: I set out to recreate the brief example from Michael Gordon's "Trance" (great piece, BTW) in Finale -- with correct playback -- and quickly hit a brick wall. The rhythm is (

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread shirling & neueweise
What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets" for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has ever heard or would understand such a term. oops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet ___ Finale mailing list Fin

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Owain, On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:36 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: incompleteness of tuplets, using the names for note durations that actually tell you how long the notes are. What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuple

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-24 Thread shirling & neueweise
As for the rest of your post, I wish you wouldn't give me credit for saying things I'm not saying. darcy, my apologies if that came across as a personal attack, it wasn't menat that way, it was an attack on the argument itself, because it is more often than not the only thing that people can

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Mar 2008, at 3:40 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote: Performances of Ferneyhough (at least the ones I've heard) tend to be approximate at best. I don't fault the performers -- I very much doubt the composer could clap his own rhythms with any accuracy either. as i understand it he has

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
This is fine for notational purposes, I guess (although I personally would be loath to write it that way). But it won't *feel* like a bar of 2/10 to anyone, because there's no rhythmic point of reference. Instead, it will feel like a metric modulation. so we should go through all the reperto

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough

2008-03-23 Thread Owain Sutton
Darcy That'd be no deal, anyway - they're not 'quaint', just historically-informed :p I suppose if we added Americans (and Canadians!) getting that horrid word 'quaint' out of their lexicon into the mix, we might be on to something... In seriousness, perhaps the desire to refer to 'tenth notes'

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
Performances of Ferneyhough (at least the ones I've heard) tend to be approximate at best. I don't fault the performers -- I very much doubt the composer could clap his own rhythms with any accuracy either. as i understand it he has actually performed in one of his recent works, and i think

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Owain, On 23 Mar 2008, at 10:36 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: I don't see why it's necessary for the mental countoff to be in x/4 or x/8. (He does generally make quavers his standard pulse rather than crotchets.) In the example I gave, the indication is that the pulse of the 2/10 bar is at qu

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-23 Thread Owain Sutton
> Hi Owain, > > The point I was trying to make is that unlike standard time > signatures, a tuplet-base time signature like 5/6 can't stand on its > own -- it only makes sense relative to a non-tuplet-base time sig. > Even if the first measure is 5/6, your mental countoff still > has to b

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
OTECTED] On Behalf Of Darcy James Argue Sent: 22 March 2008 22:48 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale Hi all, I ended up blogging about this -- my post includes more extensive instructions and visual examples. I also include audio of the bassline in

RE: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread Owain Sutton
f Of Darcy James Argue > Sent: 22 March 2008 22:48 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale > > > Hi all, > > I ended up blogging about this -- my post includes more extensive > instructions and visual examples. I also include audio of

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I ended up blogging about this -- my post includes more extensive instructions and visual examples. I also include audio of the bassline in question: two versions, with two different clicks: http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argues_secret/2008/03/till-this-bitte.html Che

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 22 Mar 2008, at 9:10 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: For the curious: Finally, hide all the triplets and render the partial triplets graphically. in this example you would only need it on m2-3, then m1 notated normally. Well, mm.2-4, actually, with m.1 and m.5 notated normally, but y

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread shirling & neueweise
For the curious: Finally, hide all the triplets and render the partial triplets graphically. in this example you would only need it on m2-3, then m1 notated normally. great solution, but i don't like the fact that you can't actually use finale's tuplets at all in your explanation. so i woul

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-22 Thread dhbailey
Wow, Darcy. My hat is off to you for spending the time to figure out how to do that. Your ability to get this program to sit up and spit nickels never fails to amaze me, as it always highlights hidden depths and abilities of the program which counter some of the frustrations that the more mu

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-21 Thread Christopher Smith
Oh, that IS ingenious! I had just finished reading the post (the comments reminded me of a discussion we had here on the List a couple of years back) and was about to try it out myself (deadline done and sent off, rest of the long weekend free.) I wonder what Dennis B-K would have said? Ni

Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey all, Never mind, I figured it out. For the curious: First enter the figure as regular quarter notes and eighth notes. Next, for the bars with partial tuplets, create a "4 quarters in the space of 6 quarters" tuplet over the entire bar. This turns all quarter notes in the measures into

[Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale

2008-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Inspired by this post by Kyle Gann: http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2008/03/dont_blame_me_it_was_henry_cow.html I set out to recreate the brief example from Michael Gordon's "Trance" (great piece, BTW) in Finale -- with correct playback -- and quickly hit a brick wall. The rhythm is