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New user of the great software.
Would like to delete the time signature and bar lines for some tuition material. Could anyone tell me how to do this please?
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Welcome!
Click the time signature, press Del;
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-operations#join-measures
Edit
An old 'how to' https://musescore.org/en/node/46576
HTH
Welcome aboard...
Are you trying to make blank manuscript paper showing only a clef symbol (e.g. for printing worksheets)?
If so, why put in the odd 4/1 time signature (which gets deleted)?
Anyhow...
Here's your attached file, sample 1.mscz, with the time signature deleted, then all bar lines and rests made invisible:
sample 1a.mscz
Open the menu item 'View' where you can tick/untick 'Show Invisible'.
In the score, invisible elements are colored gray, but do not print.
Regards.
Time signatures may be deleted. Select the signature and press "Del" key.
Barlines may be hidden. Select them, and uncheck the option "Visible" in the Inspector. They Will be greyed out in MuseScore, but will not appear in print.
In reply to Time signatures may be… by Niels Erik Nielsen 2
Hi Niels, and thanks for your comment on this thread.
I am trying to harmonize a piece for 4 parts for an Eastern Catholic church liturgy. In our tradition, there is not much use for time signatures or barlines - and in most cases that goes against traditional western musical sensibilities. And about the only thing they seem to use barlines for is to demarcate different phrases and where to breathe.
Anyway, When I delete the time signature, the barlines continue to convert a quaternote placed on the last half of the 4th note into two 8ths tied together across the barline (which does not appear to grey out, either) instead of keeping it as a quaternote. I even try highlighting the barline and deleting, but this does not change the problems I am coming across.
Any suggestions?
While deleting the time signature is possible, I don't recommend it - it changes the time signature to 4/4 which can mess up your existing music and also lead to more problems later. Better to simply tell the staff not to display the time signature, by right clicking it and going to Staff Properties then unchecking "Show time signature". That way the staff still has a time signature - which could be anything you want actually - and you are less likely to run into corruption issues down the road. Maybe not a big concern here, but still, as a general technique, it's one to keep in mind.
In reply to While deleting the time… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Marc.
But I have tried this method and there does not seem to be an option to not display the time signature and the barlines still separate notes (ie. - if you start in common or 4/4 time, a quater note on the and of 4 is converted into two 8th notes tied together. I need to harmonize a piece for my Eastern Catholic church that has very unconventional time as far as western notation is concerned.
Any suggestions?
In reply to Thanks, Marc… by dr.ellwanger@g…
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/early-music-features
In reply to Thanks, Marc… by dr.ellwanger@g…
Here's a file I made a long time ago (under version 1, so it looks a bit of a mess). I used a 16/1 time signature, and one "bar" per line, so each line ends with a bunch of meaningless rests (made invisible).
Really, MS needs an "unmeasured bar" function (that's an "unmeasured measure" in American, unfortunately), but this does not seem likely to appear soon. Meanwhile the "BIG" time signature seems to be the answer. You could reduce the amount of work in hiding rests by reducing the 16/1 (or 32/1!) to a more reasonable number at the end.
In reply to Here's a file I made a long… by Imaginatorium
Instead of hiding rests, use the split measure command and Ctrl-delete the remainder measure.
In reply to Instead of hiding rests, use… by jeetee
darn, you beat me to it, was about to write the same ;-)
In reply to Thanks, Marc… by dr.ellwanger@g…
If you read my previous response again, you'll see I was responding to acomment about trying to create blank measures, not about creating unmeasured music. But the option to not display time signatures does work just as I described. You just need to also combine measures to get rid of the barlines as others have explained, in order to get the results you are wanting.
A big "thank you" to everyone who has replied to my question about hiding bar lines, rests and time signatures. I was staggered by the amount of information and help which you all gave me as a newcomer and am very grateful. I did put many of your ideas into practice and have solved my problem. Am amazed how much I've been able to do with Musescore in just a few days after your kind help. The last time I had anything to do with music software was Coda Finale 20 years ago. How things have progressed since then! Great that musicians can help each other in this way.
Best wishes,
Clifford