repeat sign half way through bar
I am new to Muse, and trying to type in and transpose a melody and bass. The piece is early music and has no barring so I have selected 3/2 as the nearest. This means the start of a repeat is half way through a bar. I only seem to be able to put a repeat sign at the start or end of the bar.
1, is there a way of adding a repeat in the middle of a bar
2. if not, can i change the time signature at this stage - the notes are in place.?
3. I might get round it adding an anacrusis of three crotchet rests (though that means the close repeat will be half way through a bar....) but unable to find how to add an anacrusis except when first setting up the score.
Anyone sorted this? and if the information is already here somewhere, how do I find it?
thanks
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You can drag a repeat bar to a note rather than to a measure, but it won't play back then. So better use the split measure tool. And the join measure tool for all the rest. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-operations-0#split-join
In reply to You can drag a repeat bar to by Jojo-Schmitz
thank you - bar split and repeat added !
I then deleted some spare bars at the end.
I now have a score where there are seven bars on the first line and three rather stretched ones on the second line...
Is there an easy way to redistribute the bars more evenly between the two lines?
In reply to thank you - bar split and by Nick Gravestock
Place a line (system) break at the desired bar. See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers
Regards.
In reply to thank you - bar split and by Nick Gravestock
Select the entirety of both lines, then hit uppercase right bracket (expand) until the two lines overflow to a third. Then hit uppercase left bracket (shrink) to bring them back to two lines. Everything will equalize. I think there is a heck of a lot of computing going on when you do this, so give it time after each stretch or shrink command. Do this any time a portion of your page is crowded and another portion stretched out, like when you have a single measure on a line all by itself.
In reply to Select the entirety of both… by richard1941
Curly braces rather than (square) brackets...
Although 8 years later that may not matter much 😜
No barring works best on a piece of paper. Hand it to an engraver and you're done. That was the way things worked for centuries.
Notation software requires you to make decisions as an editor. There is no way to get around that. Once you accept that you must edit, find the tools that let you do it as close to your original intention as possible.
MuseScore can do what you want here per the other answers. If your notation needs go beyond the norm, there are always the heavyweights that can notate just about anything you can imagine — as can pen and paper.