I know this title may sounds stupid but, it’s not what you think. In Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, the piano’s time is ¹²/₈ while the orchestra is ⁴/₄.
Janus
March 18, 2022, 12:03am
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Welcome.
You can reproduce them in Dorico, but it does require the use of hidden tuplets.
There’s a great thread you can search for about setting Bach’s Jesu Bleibet. What you do is set contrasting (by holding alt) time signatures for the first measure, and then use hidden tuplets the rest of the time (which can be copied and pasted to help save time).
I found a way to write polyrhythms that have the same bar length and display the proper time signature. I’m sure this will be done natively in the fullness of time, but for now, this a pretty good workaround. Here’s what it looks like in Bach’s “Jesus bleibet meine Freude”:
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Normally, this is easy to do using triplets and hiding the numbers and brackets (which is faster to do now that there is a filter), but the time signature would remain 3/4. To get the 9/8 follow this procedure:
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There’s also this article on Scoring Notes on the same topic:
In Dorico 1.2, you can notate a piece with any time signature displaying as any other time signature. In this tutorial by Florian Kretlow, we'll illustrate a useful trick that shows how to do just that, by using a piece from the core repertoire as...
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