Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance for helping me out!
I’m trying to replicate a metronome marking in Dorico which I have in a piano score from Bartok’s ‘Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm’ which is:
minim tied to dotted crotchet = 60 (half tied to dotted quarter)
Here is a screenshot of what I’m trying to replicate:
This might not be possible, so if not, are there some creative workarounds you could suggest?!
Thanks very much! Look forward to hearing possible ways forward!
This is a job for the font MusGlyphs created by forum user @dan_kreider :
If you don’t have the MusGlyphs font, here is an alternative. Quite fiddly to do, but it is possible.
It is done as text, using a mixture of normal text and music text with quite a lot of changing the point size of characters, font stretch, baseline shift and letter spacing. If you want to set the tempo to actually be what is shown, you will need to work what that equates to using a single note value (my guess is 8th-note = 420), enter a “real” metronome mark and then hide it by unchecking “Metronome mark shown” in Properties.
Tempo as text.dorico (967.9 KB)
This capability certainly needs to be added to Dorico. How else can one show metronome indications for meters like 7/8 when the whole measure is the indicated metronome beat?
Also for the record, you can use smaller size numerals. I believe you add an @ before each one.
You don’t. One uses quaver or dotted quaver, or even both possibilities at once.
Yes, Bartók used metronome marks for the whole bar, and he was crazy for doing that. It has barely any practical use for someone who’s going to execute a piece. If you want the interpreter to respect you, at the very least put the beat with binary or ternary subdivision.
Of course it’s useful, I set my metronome to 60 and make sure I fit a bar in every beat. It’s e=420 which is horribly impractical.
You could type h..=60 in the tempo popover:
Good point, @johnkprice, although I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in actual music. In any case, 7/8 was just an example of various meters, such as 5/8 etc. many of which must be shown with tied values if the whole measure gets one beat.
Hopefully one day we’ll get metronomes that enable irregular meter. Extremely useful for this type of music.
Thank you everyone for your contributions and suggestions! Much to experiment with until it’s a built in feature! Many thanks 
