Can I create a score without a time signature?
Hi - not obvious, if I can. I'd like to copy down an old hymn that has bars of 12 and 14 beats, alternately. It's written in the hymnal without a time signature. Can I do that?
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Yes (and no, but actually yes).
Music in MuseScore needs a time signature for plenty of reasons. However, you can start off with a rather large one (20/4 for example) and in the staff properties for each staff turn the display of it off.
Then you start entering notes in the first measure, there will be rests remaining in that measure. Use the 'Split measure' command to have the measure become the correct length (tip: assign a shortcut to that command). Then remove the remainder-measure that the split command had generated.
Continue with the next measure, and so on.
In reply to Yes (and no, but actually by jeetee
But if you know it's alternate 12 and 14 beats, just use 12/4 and 14/4, and make the time signatures invisible. But I know this seems ugly, and there is an ongoing suggestion to provide unmeasured functionality... I mean to make a proposal any day soon ()
In reply to But if you know it's by Imaginatorium
Hi thanks a bunch both of you, I managed to get something satisfactory using your advice.