Key Signature

• May 8, 2012 - 11:29

In creating a new Score the requirement is for 2 beats per bar.
I've tried 2/4 4/2 and 2/2.
All result in 4 beats per bar.
I need 2.

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• May 8, 2012 - 12:42

What had time signature to with key signature?
Whatever: draging a time signature on 2/2 onto a measure of any your staves should change this and all subsequent measures in all staves to that time signature.

If not:
What Operating System?
What version of MuseScore?
Can you attache the score?

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• May 8, 2012 - 23:43

The 2/2 appears in the right place but each measure still has 4 crochets per bar.
No matter what Time signature I put there, the measures don't match.
I guess the program is ignoring the 2/2 time signature I apply, and sticking to a default 4/4.
I can't attach a score because I'm still trying to get the measures to match the time signature so I can create one.

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• May 8, 2012 - 23:57

2/2 is *supposed* to have four crotchets per bar. The 2 on the bottom tells you that the minm, not the crotchet, gets the beat. If you want only two crotchets per bar, that's 2/4, not 2/2. And this definitely works. Perhaps you are being confused by the fact that an empty measure in 2/4 still shows a whole measure rest, which appears like it could mean 4 beats? It doesn't; the same sy,bol imdicates a full measure of rest im any time signature.

f you have a case where for some reason it doesn't appear to be, please attach the score. I don't understand your reason for not being aboe to. If the measures don't match, that's exactly the problem we'd need to see.

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