Unusual time signature
I have a piece by Bartok that has a time signature written as 2/8+3/8+3/8. Can I create that in musescore, and if so how?
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I have a piece by Bartok that has a time signature written as 2/8+3/8+3/8. Can I create that in musescore, and if so how?
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Create a new time signature using the button the "More" section of the time signature palette. Have it be 8/8, but use the settings in the dialog to get it to display as 2+3+3 over 8 (or over 8+8+8).
In reply to Create a new time signature… by Marc Sabatella
That works, thanks!
In that piece many measures contain a quarter note followed by two notes that are 3 eights in length. the first of those is rendered as a quarter note tied to an eighth note, whereas the next is a dotted quarter note. Is there a way to have both rendered as dotted quarter notes?
In reply to That works, thanks! In that… by tpgettys
Sure, just enter them that way! BTW, you can also set the beaming options when creating the time signature, so eighths are beamed as 2+3+3 by default.
In reply to Sure, just enter them that… by Marc Sabatella
I don't understand what you are saying about the beaming options. How do I set it up so it beams as 2+3+3?
In reply to I don't understand what you… by tpgettys
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/time-signatures#change-default-beam…
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
That is really nice; thanks!
I thought I saw somewhere (in published music) 6/8 + 3/4 in the first measure... Then, throughout the piece, it was understood & notated that the meters continually alternated. From "Man of La Mancha", the aria 'Dulcinea' is the best example I recall. However, I can't find anything other than explicitly swapping meters, as in the image attached.
How a composer who wants 6/8 + 3/4 to show up in MuseScore -- I don't know.
In reply to I thought I saw somewhere … by Are Jayem
See my response above - you can control the display of the time signature in time signature properties. You can't currently get 6/8 + 3/4, but you can get 6+3 / 8+4, which will convey the same thing. You could also just hide the time signature but then construct a fake one out of Symbols or Special Characters within text.
BTW, I hadn't thought of that song as involving alternating meters before, and really the melody lays just as naturally in 6/8 pretty much the whole way through. I guess the accompaniment has more of a dense of switching. The clearer example to me is "America" from "West Side Story", where everything changes in sync.