Independent time signatures

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DonBugg

• May 04, 2023 05:50
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Sometimes it's useful to compose two parts of the same piece with different time signatures.  The best example I can think of is J S Bach's "Jesus, bleibet meine Freude" ("Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), BWV 147.  It has some instrumental parts expressed in 9/8 while others are in 3/4.  They go together fine and the method avoids the necessity of endless triplet markings.  

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  merkatz

  • July 22, 2020 20:01

  Please make sure that as a composer you can also write polymetric music. Different time signatures at the same time are an essential part of music, especially of classical music. In a music notation program it should therefore be possible to notate different time signatures.

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  elipcellist13

  • December 28, 2021 03:08
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  @merkatz

  Yes, that's definitely a needed feature in Noteflight.

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  Ktr9477

  • May 19, 2022 18:26

  I am totally stuck & the moment & have resorted to Arabesque 1, Debussy- as a template, but it would be ever so much easier if I could do independent time sig per staff

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  Frederic Francois Chopin

  • July 19, 2022 01:20

  We should have that feature. In Ligeti's Concerto for violin, the flutes and woodwinds are in 4/2 time signature but the solo violin is in 3/2. 

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  Yellow63

  • March 04, 2023 11:36

  I agree, it’s a necessary feature. Will noteflight be including it soon?

   

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