Additive Meters

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Sib_B
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Post by Sib_B » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:02 pm

Hi everyone. I searched the forum for this but haven't found it. My apologies if it's a repeat.

I would like to use an "additive meter" in Sibelius. For instance... The piece is in 5/4. But that five is always grouped as 3+2. So...I want the meter to read 3+2 over 4.

So instead of...

5
--
4

I want it to say...

3+2
----
4

I can't find a way to do this in Sibelius. Does anyone know how?

Thanks!


dvorak888
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Post by dvorak888 » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:32 am

Go to Create>Time Signature, click other and type in 3+2 in the top box.

Page 187 in the reference manual (Sibelius 6) goes into more detail about it...

Hope that helps!

Sib_B
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Post by Sib_B » Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:46 pm

Awesome. Thanks so much! Can't believe I didn't try that...

:D

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