7/4 Time with dotted bar within

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Post by jose oscar » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:17 pm

In the Nocturne in Db by Debussy I see a 7/4 Time notates as 4/4 + 3/4 separated by a dotted bar.

How coul I write that, please?

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Post by motet » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:21 pm

Create a 4/4 and 3/4 bar. Make the right barline of the 4/4 bar dashed. Set both bars to use 7/4 as the alternate display. Then copy those two bars forward as many times as you need to complete the piece. Do all this before entering notes.

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Post by N Grossingink » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:35 pm

Motet beat me to it, but maybe a picture is worth a few additional words.

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Post by jose oscar » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:27 pm

Thank you very much, Motet and Grossingink.

I've got it.

Now I see the bar numbers is duplicated. I mean I had 10 bars with numbers 1 to 10. Now I have bars numbered from 1 to 20.

How do I come back to the primitive numeration?

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Post by motet » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:34 pm

For the 3/4 bar, check "exclude from measure numbering" in the measure attributes.

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Post by jose oscar » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:44 pm

Thank you very much, motet

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