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It doesn’t really matter which of the two meters we choose. Dorico can’t yet deal with metric modulations between different meters, so we are going to write both layers in the same meter. Let’s forget about the time signatures for a moment.

Using tuplets as a substitution for metric modulations You guessed it: today we’re going to define and hide a lot of tuplets. And to do so we need a second tool, one that allows us to change the actual duration of a note in relation to the underlying pulse. Obviously the current implementation of polymeters in Dorico alone won’t suffice. We need a solution that allows one quarter note in the choral to equal a dotted quarter note in the solo group. To create an individual time signature only for the current staff invoke the meter pop-over as usual and confirm with Alt+Enter. A first try with normal independent time signatures in Dorico proves that this is not the way to go. This leads to barlines that don’t coincide. A compositional decision as profane as dividing beats differently creates an expressive tension that spans a whole inner world.Īs of now, Dorico supports polymeters w ithout metric modulations, that is to say: when quarter note equals quarter note.

the chorale, more solemn than expressive, in common timeīoth layers are coexisting peacefully on top of each other as the underlying pulse is identical.

the solo group, Bass soloist and Continuo, dancing tentatively in 12/8.

Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen consists of two musical layers: Take a look at this aria from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Johannespassion (click for a pdf): As it happens, the problem discussed on the forum is not exactly a 21st century problem. Somebody needed to create polymeters with metric modulations.

I first read about the pick-up trick on the Dorico forum, in a thread about complex polymeters in contemporary music. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mein teurer Heiland, laß dich fragen The problem Let me show you a real world example, a piece from the core repertoire that would be impossible to notate in Dorico 1.2 without dressing up a time signature. And I can see your furrowed brows as you’re wondering whether I’ve written up a whole Scoring Notes post about a workaround that’s no longer useful except for bad jokes. I suppose most of you are not inclined to fool your players. I could just type 13/16,10 but then I would have to adjust the beaming manually because the internal beaming scheme of a 13/16 bar is obviously different from a 5/8 bar.Ah well. This can be fixed.Ĭome to think of it… In the pop-over, specifies the beam grouping for the first bar. Yes, I know about the bar rest in the first bar.

Create the real time signature in the following bar and hide it via the properties panel.Īlthough the procedure is now obsolete in this context, allow me to cite Hans Leo Hassler once again to illustrate what I mean: This is how I used to do this.

Create the time signature you want to see in your score – with an anacrusis that is as long as the bar where it appears.

I’m very fond of it and I call it the pick-up trick. In fact you can dress up any time signature as any other time signature with a neat little trick. You can make 4/4 look like 2/2, or indeed 5/8 like 13/16 if you really feel like fooling your players. Mind you, with a bit of cheating it’s always been possible to make a 4/2 time signature show up with the alla breve symbol. Sadly, for me this means mostly farewell to my favorite workaround (yes indeed, I am a long time Finale user). This is a welcome addition for editors of early music. The time signature will then be drawn with the alla breve symbol. Now you can activate it for every time signature with a half note denominator. One of them is the Common/Cut common property that was previously only available for 4/4 and 2/2. The dust of last week’s earthquake (DRRRRRRUMMMMS! CUES!) is settling and I find my dazzled and happy self looking around and noticing a number of less conspicuous improvements in Dorico 1.2.