Appearance of Bar (Measure) Numbers

• Jun 28, 2018 - 13:39
Reported version
2.2
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
active
Project

Automatically, MuseScore wil show bar (measure) numbers at the start of each system on a masterscore and at the start of each stave in a part.

It’s often the case when a conductor is rehearsing with an ensemble, that they will say “let’s go from bar ‘x’”, where bar ‘x’ is in the middle of a multi-measure rest for many players. Players then have to count quickly to calculate where they are.

MuseScore could save players from having to count every time, by adding a function to its ‘Edit Style’ window: for users to be able to choose whether they want to have measure numbers showing:

• at the start of each system /line
• Ever ‘x’ bars (measure) (e.g. every 5 bars)
• At every rehearsal mark
• any combination of the above

NB Into this function needs to be built a layout principle to prevent bar numbers from colliding with rehearsal marks. Users’ lives are too short to spend time repositioning each and every rehearsal mark to move it out of the way of the new measure number, particularly when this action would be multiplied by the number of parts in the score!


Comments

These 2 are possible already:

  • at the start of each system /line
  • Ever ‘x’ bars (measure) (e.g. every 5 bars)

See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene…

The next is sort of possible, by using numerical rehearsal marks and using the 'renumber rehearsal marks' function, so the rehersal marks match the measure numbers. Or with tweaking the measures' properties and set "Measure number mode" to "Always".

  • At every rehearsal mark

and with that

  • any combination of the above

is possible too