No time signature
Good morning, everybody!
Just arrived at MuseScore...
When trying to begin with my first project, I was offered a choice of time signatures, but I need to do without. I looked around but didn't find the how. How do I engrave (contemporary) music without time, measures, bar lines...?
Thanks for your help,
Manuel
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Internally, MuseScore needs to organize music in terms of measures, but you can suppress the display of time signature and barlines in Staff/Part Properties, and you can use commands like the split and join in Tools / Measure to create measures of whatever length you want, so you have one "measure:" per system.
In reply to Internally, MuseScore needs… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you, Marc.
I did look there but couldn't find such options: neither in the time signature palette nor in the tools menu. I wonder what I am doing wrong?
In reply to Thank you, Marc. I did look… by ManuelMyV
Tools / Measure is where the split and join command are, and Staff/Part Properties (right-click the staff itself) is where the option to hide time signatures and barlines are. Time Signature Properties doens't enter into it. Actually, though, in some cases at least I find better results marking the initial time signature invisible than suppressing it entirely.
In reply to Thank you, Marc. I did look… by ManuelMyV
@ManuelMyV
1. Right-click on an empty bit of your staff (i.e. do not click on a note)
2. Choose Staff/Part Properties (Stave/Part Properties in British English)
3. Disable (uncheck) any properties you want to hide
And to join measures (bars): select the measures, then menu option:
Tools > Measure > Join Selected Measures
In reply to @ManuelMyV 1. Right-click on… by DanielR
I should mention I do this enough that I've assigned shortcuts to the split and join commands, via Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts. My general working method is start with 4/4 or whatever as my base time signature (4/2 when doing Renaissance music!) then guesstimate how many measures I might want to combine, but deliberately overshoot it. Then I do the join operation and start entering notes. Once I reach about the point where I think I want my system to end, I do the split, then hit Enter. With shortcuts, this is all very simple, takes only a couple seconds per system and almost no thinking.