Deliberate conflicting Key signatures
I am typesetting an edition of Josquin des Prez' Dominus Regnavit and the original part books have the Superius and Tenor in F and the Altus and Bassus in Ab. Is it possible to have two different key signatures in the same system?
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Yes, when dragging the keysig, hold Ctrl
In reply to Yes, when dragging the by Jojo-Schmitz
That's great thanks!
Is it possible to do the same with time signatures? e.g. Superius and Tenor in 2/1 and the Altus and Bassus in 3/1.
The work around I'm using at the moment is to have the 3/1 bars as triplets, but i'd like to reflect the source manuscript mensural time sigs.
In reply to That's great thanks! Is it by Matthew Pochin
Yes it is, same mechanism, press Ctrl when dropping the timesig. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/time-signature#local-time-signatures
And see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/key-signatures-0#add-key-sig-to-one-s…
In reply to That's great thanks! Is it by Matthew Pochin
Local time signatures cause all kinds of difficulties in editing. Save any local time signatures for the end of you score entry. Just leave empty measure with the unchanged time signature in them until you get everything else done. You cannot paste into or copy out of a measure with a local time signature. If your time signature changes, you must enter the last one first and work you way forward, because once you enter the local time signature and make any alteration to to any measure following it, all following measures are froze with that time signature.
The tuplet method, while a little more tedious is easier to deal with, because you can still copy the measures. To use this, right click the time signature and select Time Signature properties and change the appearance. You can remove all of the tuplet bars and numbers in the inspector.