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Messages - Chuck Mullen

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General Discussion / Quarter note equals quarter note, etc.
Hi. I would love to look this up, but I don't know what to call it.

I have some music that explains the "Swing" instruction by picturing a pair of eighth notes' being equal to a quarter and an eighth. There are also other such notations that seem to say things like a quarter note equals a quarter note. What the heck is this notation called, so I can Google it, and (just for kicks) can I enter these (other than with a tempo entry) in NWC?

Thanks in advance,
   - Chuck
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General Discussion / Layering secret?
Hi group.

I tried looking up a few search keyword combinations that included "layering," but got nothing about the following.

I'm trying to layer a soprano line with an alto and a tenor with a bass. After clicking on "Layer with next staff" under the Visual tab in the Properties dialog, the two staffs still show separately. Is there some other condition that has to be met before layering happens?  NWC2, by the way.

Thanks,
Chuck
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General Discussion / Stave 9 set to "Church Organ" but plays drums.
My apologies if this is out here already and I just don't know how to look it up -

I noticed the sound of a drum coming from what turned out to be the ninth stave on a piece I'm transposing in Noteworthy 1.75b. This despite having set the instrument to "Church Organ" in staff properties. Is this a known bug, a menu default option, or something in my midi setup - anyone got any ideas?
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General Discussion / Re: Any Musical Geniouses here?
But back on topic -

Has everyone seen the piece named "Spell Checker?"

 Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye ken knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Keeping track of where you are
In case anyone's interested, I have a very low-tech way to see where I am when enteringparts for the purpose of practice.

Following an earlier suggestion (Sorry - I forget by whom), I tend to enter the lyrics for the part I'm entering before the notes. In order to go back and edit the inevitable typos, I make sure to hit ENTER before typing in the text for a new system. Since I tend to be entering baroque of classical music, the lyrics do tend to get repetitive. This makes it still hard to see where I am, so each time I get to the words on a new page, I prefix the first word with the new page number. It ends up looking like this:

si-cut e-rat in prin-ci-pi-o
11in prin-ci-pi-o etc.