Untimed measures
Does Musescore allow untimed measures? I am noticing in some pieces of music, especially in a cadenza, there are more notes that the timing would allow, especially when the notes are 32nd or 64th notes. I can't seem to get the notes to fit to the stated time signature. The printed score does not show tuplets (thought that may be is the composer intention) So I am thinking the composer must have wanted an untimed measure for the cadenza part. In a recent example, the stated time signature was 4/4, but I had to increase it to 5/4 (an unusual time signature before the late 19th century) in order to fit all the notes. After increasing to 5/4, I still had to lengthen one note to a dotted note in order to fit the 5/4 timing. Not only that, but I had to spread the notes over 2 measures - the printed score has it all in one measure.
Any help with this dilemma would be appreciated.
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You can alter the actual duration of a measure regardless the current time signature. Either in its properties (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-operations#duration) or by joining it with another (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-operations#join-measures) or by using insert mode (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input-modes#timewise)
In reply to You can alter the actual… by jeetee
Thank you, Jeetee. I knew you could do that but I didn't think to do that with this measure. I did the measure join and it worked like a charm. Oddly, I get the Out of balance measure symbol "+" and when I play the piece the moving cursor counts two more invisible notes before moving to the next measure. Luckily, there is a fermata there so no big deal.
In reply to Thank you, Jeetee. I knew… by odelphi231
If you don't wish for additional beats to write a cadenza, then the other possibility is to use a custom (long) tuplet: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tuplets
I find those harder for cadenza usage, as it requires you to know the number of notes/ratio up front and probably isn't played back as you'd want either.
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