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Messages - Cyril Alberga

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General Discussion / Re: Caliope
I guess I should quote from a source, rather than from my weakening memory.  From the 1966 Harvard Dictionary of Music:

Calliope.  Originally the name of the Greek Muse of Eloquence, the term was adopted for an instrument which its unknown inventor probably expected to have divine powers of persuasion, as it consisted of a number of stram-blown whistles (played from a keyboard) which could be heard over a distance of ten miles.  It was used at American fairs to attract people from far and wide.
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General Discussion / Re: Caliope
A steam organ, usually mounted on a wagon for use in circus parades and performances.  Also (I think) the mechanical organ used in a merry-go-round.
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General Discussion / Re: Varing Dynamics listed together.
It depends on the structure of repeats.  As a simple example, suppose you have a section enclosed in open and close repeat bars.  If you have a "p" anywhere before the open repeat and an "f" just before the close repeat you will have the "p" in effect the first time through and the "f" the second.  Note that the "f" will continue in force when you exit the repeat.  There are a lot of things you can change, including instrument patches.  Peanut Jake has posted a number of dance arrangements where, using hidden 1st, 2nd, etc. endings, he changes the instrumentation each time through the music.

In one piece which I have transcribed the original score read "the repeat pia".  I added the dynamics. "mf" initially, "p" just before the repeat, made them non-visible and inserted the phrase as text.  Note that in the player, plugin and printing things marked as not visible act as if they just aren't there as far as the display is concerned.  For example, in the piece in question I had to add another "mf" before the following section which was also to be repeated.  When place between the close repeat for the first part and the open repeat for the second it separated them in NWC, but because it was marked as "never visible" the bars are merged in the other programs.
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General Discussion / Re: Two verses on same staff, different notes in the same measure
Actually, I think there is, though the details are outside my area of knowledge.  One can have two staves with repeats, one with one set of notes, the other with the other.  Just before the open-repeat (which can be non-visible) insert an MPC which sets the volume/velocity/what-ever (see? outside my knowledge) on once staff to zero, the other to whatever the normal value is.  Then, just before the closing repeat, switch the MPCs.  Now, on the first time round the first staff will play, on the second, the second staff.  You can even get the lyrics to "light up" properly by having the first staff with an empty second lyric line (NOT a single lyric line, which will display both times) and the second staff with an empty first lyric line.

The one thing the I think is impossible, is to get the notes to "light up" as you would want them to.  You will have to make one of the staves totally non-visible (which DOESN'T blank out the lyrics) and layer them.
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General Discussion / Re: Lowering/Raising Notes
Select the notes in question, hold down the Shift and CTRL keys simultaneously, and use the Up-arrow/Down-arrow keys to move the notes.  Same thing, with PgUp and PgDn to move a staff within the system.

If you select a sequence of notes with interspersed rest and/or text items, only the notes will more.  But if you select as single rest or text item it can be repositioned on the staff in the same way.  Some things just won't move, like clefs, key signatures (which do move if you change the clef) or time signatures.  I know that tempo indications (fff, p, cresc.) will move.  I can't give a complete list of what else will or won't, you'll have to try and see.
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General Discussion / Re: Font hackery
Thanks, I'll try it with the hex editor.  I basically tried that using a text editor (EditPad), but either I missed an instance, or it munged some of the non-printing character (though I usually is pretty well behaved).

Cyril
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General Discussion / Font hackery
I'm fiddling with the Boxmarks font, adding some characters.  I'm using Corel Draw (version 8), which lets me manipulate characters, replacing or adding them to an existing font.  What I haven't figured out is how to change the name of the font (not the name of the .ttf file, but the name that shows up in font tables).  Can anyone enlighten me?

Cyril
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General Discussion / Re: expression
Just one other point.  You should make the visible staff mute.  There is a button in the tool bar, just to the right of the "L" (for Lyrics) which looks like a speaker in a slashed circle.  If you click on that the current staff becomes silent.
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General Discussion / Re: number of bars in each line?
In some old music (pre 1600) which I have transcribe almost all the notes (but not ALL) are whole and half.  To keep things from sprawling all over the page I have set the print control to equal space per note and then added a hidden, layered staff filled with rests.  You may have to experiment, but typical combinations would be:

notes:  1/2 1/2
rests:  1/4 1/4 1/2

notes:  dotted-1/2 1/4
rests:  1/2 1/4 1/4

You can get quite good looking spacing, and not have to remember where you stuck in text items.
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General Discussion / Re: Spacing with underscores
The invisable, layered staff is the simplest.  Remeber, if you select the entire staff and set the visiblity to "never" the lyrics still show.  Thus you can slur notes in the staff holding the lyrics, or break, say a quarter into two eighths, and it won't show.  Just be sure you mute the whole staff as well.

As to extra space, there is no limit on how many underscores you use.  You can write "my__________love" and it will show as a whole lot of spaces.
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General Discussion / Re: Shave and a Haircut...
I find two problems with the latest change.

1) the turquoise on white is very hard to read for these old eyes.

2) in Netscape things seem to be smack against the left margin and slightly cut-off on the right, with no horizontal scroll-bar showing.  This is at 600x800 with the window maximized.
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General Discussion / Re: rest above a note
And with the note having a shorter value than the rest.  Further, the added notes must sum (with the rest) to the length of the note which is chorded.

So: 1/8 rest chorded with 1/4 note, followed by an 1/8 note, or two 1/16 notes, etc., all take the time of one 1/4 note.  If you chord an 1/8 rest with a 1/4 note (as before) and then enter a 1/4 note the combination takes 1/4 + 1/8, with the second 1/4 starting after the 1/8 rest.

This means that you can do some combinations, but not others.  You really have to experiment to see how the various combinations work.  Easiest if you have two staves, one with a bunch of 1/4 notes and regular bars, the other with your experiments.
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General Discussion / Re: Adding accidentals / selecting one note in a chord
You can select a single note in a chord, but you can't edit it, all you can do is delete it.  You can then set the accidental, articulation, etc. and insert a new note, either of the same pitch or at a different pitch.  To select and delete the note position the cursor to the right of the specific note head (in the same vertical position you used to add that note to the chord) and press ctl-backspace.  This will remove the note.  Then set the accidental (using the short-cut keys 7, 8, or 9, or by clicking on the toolbar) and press ctl-enter.  The note will be reinserted at the vertical cursor position with the specified accidental.

In the previous posting the "3" sets the duration of the note-to-be as a quarter note (crotchet), and the "9" turns on the # sign.  The first is unconditional, but if by chance you already have the # sign selected the "9" will actually turn it off, leaving you with an un-sharped note.  The number keys in question are the ones on the upper row of the keyboard, not on the number pad.  (Actually I may be wrong here, but since I always have num-lock off, to use the number-pad for navigating in the staff I have never tried using it to see if a "3" there equals a "3" on the regular keyboard.)
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General Discussion / Re: they are not enough ut key
Geoff --

Thanks for the details.  I had forgotten (never having used it) that you could define non-standard key-signatures.  I'm going to have to play with this, as I still think a one-staff solution is possible.
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General Discussion / Re: they are not enough ut key
PS -- I just recently figured out the rest of the confusion with the subject line.  Ut = C I knew from some of the Fitzwilliam book titles, but it took some time to remember that clef = key (think French, or Spanish "clave" and Latin "clavis").
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General Discussion / Re: they are not enough ut key
After I posted I realized the problem with transposition, that while you can put a bogus "text" clef anywhere you want you still have the key signature corresponding to the hidden "real" clef.  But, in you dual staff scheme, how DO you add a key signature?  Must you place sharp/flat signs as text as well?

Thinking (but not experimenting) about it -- could you get the proper intervals by an appropriate hidden key signature?
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General Discussion / Re: Problems with Newgroup
Isn't all this rather futile?  If NoteWorthy is not supporting the newsgroup, then I would expect it to be shut down, as it seems to be.  I suppose alternatives are:

Appeal to NoteWorthy, which is what this thread in the forum is effectively doing, I would think

Get a "public" newsgroup started, with concomitant spam attacks, and exposure of copyright postings

Sulk

At the moment I am in state three.  Perhaps there is a fourth, etc. alternatives, but I'm out of ideas at the moment.
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General Discussion / Re: Problems with Newgroup
BUT -- now I can see the many queries there about weirdness in the NG.  And lots of dangling "Re:..." messages, on a new subscription where all the messages are unread.

Think there is anyone minding the store?
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General Discussion / Re: Problems with Newgroup
I SEEMS to be working again, at least it is downloading 14000+ messages.  When I openned the mail/news reader it presented me with a "Wizard" to set up the connection to the server (remember, I had deleted it and tried to resubscribe) and it is now getting the headers.

For the record.  For the past week or so, at least every other time I've gone to the newgroup it as reported no new messages, then it would dump 20 or 30 on me.  Don't know if that is related to the above problem.
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General Discussion / Problems with Newgroup
For the past couple of days I have been getting a message that the newsgroup server "refused connection".  I had had problems with email, with the server name getting corrupted, so I deleted the ezusa server and tried to resubscribe, but I have gotten the same "refused connection" message.

I'm using NS 7.01 on Win98SE.

Cyril
182
General Discussion / Re: tempo variance
Note that the rit will effect the music from the previous tempo indication (no matter how far back) and the next one.  So, besides the rit (with visibility = never) you should insert TWO tempo indications, one at the point you want the slow-down to start, one at the end, also (both) made invisible.  If you simply want to hold the final note, then you can put an invisible tempo indicator just before it, something like 1/8 = 30.  (I don't think you are allowed to use a number less than 30.)
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General Discussion / Missing post(s)?
Yesterday I posted a reply (two, in fact) to a thread on guitar tablature.  I looked this morning and saw that there had been no further activity.  This afternoon the thread is no where to be seen.  Is there a problem on my machine, on the server, or was the thread removed?
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General Discussion / Re: New v. 1.75.9
Why don't you post your problem(s) on the news-group?  You can connect to it from the NWC homepage.  People there are very friendly and will look over what you post and comment.  I've had many a problem solved that way.  The NWC people monitor it as well, and sometimes come in with idea and solutions.