Mensural time signatures
Renaissance prolations:
Please how do I enter these in a score? I go to master palette, click on symbols, find Mediaeval / Renaissance prolations but when I try to enter one in a measure, it gets plonked on top of a rest or note. What am I doing wrongly?
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The symbols palette is just that - symbols. MuseScore doesn't understand their meaning; you need to position them yourself. You'll probably it most useful to attach to either the barline or the first note of the measure, then move it, then do something else to force MuseScore to re-draw the score so autoplace can kick in to create room for it, then fine tune from there.
If you need further assistance, please attach your score and describe what you are trying to add and where. Then we can understand and assist better.
If it is just the time signature symbols you are after, you can change the appearance by right clicking on the time signature and select "Time Signature Properties...". In the dialog you can, under the "Appearance" heading, select "Other" and there select what I think are the "mensural time signatures".
In reply to If it is just the time… by AndreasKågedal
Yes, thanks for mentioning that! Although I don’t think this is the full set of what can be found in the Symbols palette.
In reply to Yes, thanks for mentioning… by Marc Sabatella
From the answers given previously in this discussion I understand how to replace a standard modern time signature symbol with one from the "other" offered in the Time Sig's Properties window.
However, those "other" symbols lack some of the most commenly needed ones for "early" music, specifically the broken circle with the opening to the right (the symbol" that evolved into our present-day "common time" symbol that looks like a letter 'c'), and the same with a stroke thru it (the one that became "cut time" or "alla breve"), the "other" selection offers to more rarely used left-facing versions of these symbols, so why not the more common ones?
Those do appear in the "Medieval and Renassance Prolations" submenu of "symbols" in the Master Pallette, but I cannot find any way of bringing those into use as subtitutions for time signatures.
HELP!
In reply to Yes, thanks for mentioning… by Marc Sabatella
From the answers given previously in this discussion I understand how to replace a standard modern time signature symbol with one from the "other" offered in the Time Sig's Properties window.
However, those "other" symbols lack some of the most commenly needed ones for "early" music, specifically the broken circle with the opening to the right (the symbol" that evolved into our present-day "common time" symbol that looks like a letter 'c'), and the same with a stroke thru it (the one that became "cut time" or "alla breve"), the "other" selection offers to more rarely used left-facing versions of these symbols, so why not the more common ones?
Those do appear in the "Medieval and Renassance Prolations" submenu of "symbols" in the Master Pallette, but I cannot find any way of bringing those into use as subtitutions for time signatures.
HELP!
In reply to From the answers given… by kbkb14
First use the modern symbol, then make it invisible - it will still show as grey but won’t print. Now select it and superimpose the correct one from the Med and Ren symbols in the Master Palette, adding it in the usual way : https://handbook.musescore.org/notation/expressive-markings/other-symbo….