creating irregular measure

• Oct 6, 2016 - 00:43

I find it difficult to create an irregular measures, note duration of dotted minim + quaver. I have used the measure properties, but still yet i am unable to figure it out. please help me out.


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The numbers to enter would depend upon the time signature in your score, but in general, you can adjust the actual duration of a measure to a different value than the nominal duration by changing the figures in the 'measure duration' section of the Measure Properties dialogue.

Assuming you are working in 4:4, for a dotted semi-breve plus a quaver--that is to say, 6.5 beats--this requires some arithmatic because the dialogue won't accept an input in half-beats. You would have to change the meter from 4 to 8, and then enter 13 as the actual number of beats.

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HTH....

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