How do I write old music with no bars?
Hey guys,
I know there's a couple of work-arounds for music with no bars - using insane time signatures like 100/1, making the barlines invisible and stuff like that. However, this brings a range of new problems:
If I use insane signatures, the program wants to show the entire bar in one system and the notes end up being written on top of each other.
If I make the barlines invisible, that somehow includes all repetition signs - how? Why? And I cannot exclude them from the invisibility.
Any help would be much appreciated. I work with version 4.4.4 currently (the constant updates are beyond annoying, especially if it's a work PC you don't have admin right on, so you have to ask somebody to come in for every single update. So that's why I haven't updated it yet).
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Start by using Mensurstrich aka bar lines between the staves: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/mensural-notation-and-mensurstrich#… . Once you have the spacing and line lengths to your liking, you can join all the bars on each line to form a single bar: select them, then go to Tools→Measures→Join selected measures.
In reply to Start by using Mensurstrich… by Brer Fox
Thank you for your reply! Sadly, I don't need a Mensurstrich. They were used in art music, I'm working with songs which didn't use any meter at all. Which means no barlines whatsoever. It's working fine, but it remains impossible to add visible repetition signs.