[Solved] Ancient music mensuralist notation
Hi,
I need to create mensuralist notation i.e. when bars are not the same across staffs.
For example, I'll have a 3/4 on first staff, 3/2 on the second and 3/1 on the last one.
In Berlioz's appendix to his traité (see image), he gives two examples of such a case (the first one with 6/8 on 1st staff and 3/4 on 2nd staff: 3 6/8 bars having the duration of 1 3/4 bars).
The proportional duration of notes is the same for all but not forcefully at the same tempo and bars need to appear at the right place.
Is there a way to do this?
Thank you in advance.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/time-signatures#local-time-signatur…
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for that, it does function... most time but it sometimes make MuseScore crash... I try to give some informations about the context each time it occurs, but it's not very clear why.
I'm still stuck with a special case (still Berlioz ;-)): He writes with the same time signature (6/8) two parts with different movements: one is two times faster than the other, resulting in two 6/8 bars on a staff while there is only one on the other.
I couldn't find how to deal with that. Any idea?
In reply to Thank you for that, it does… by bersyl91
Add a local time signature of 12/8, then (if necessary) right click->time signature properties... and change the text of appearance to "6/8".
In reply to Add a local time signature… by kuwitt
Uhhh... I'm afraid I don't understand well :-(
If I put a 12/8, ok, I get two 6/8 for the other staff, but how can I have the right note figures? A dotted quarter will need to be a dotted half to get the right duration, no?
In reply to Uhhh... I'm afraid I don't… by bersyl91
I mark it as solved because I've found a method: I just have to hide the time signatures and to add manually the missing barlines. It's only cosmetic in that very case but the main point is resolved. Thanks to Jojo and you!
And: https://musescore.org/en/node/254556#modify-measures
In reply to And: https://musescore.org… by kuwitt
Thanks very much also: it's not currently my point, but I'm very glad to know MS is able to do that.
I've already been comfronted with things like that...
See also #330516: Mensuralist local time signature