Free rhythmed?
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Is there any EASY way to use Deluxe Music Constructor to set up free
rhythmed Gregorian Chant melodies? Being musically illiterate I find that I
wind up with unwanted pauses due to unused time left over in measures. If I
try to use wild time signatures, e.g. 35/1 and 16th notes, the notes wind
up jumbled all over each other in the beginning of the measure. I have long
"parroted" the characteristics of Gregorian; unisonous, diatonic, and
free-rhythmed" but didn't fully appreciate the last until DMC started
rubbing my nose in it. HELP!
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Carl,
DMCS can be frustrating at times. You've got the right idea about how to
eliminate the dead time – change the time signature. The thing to
remember is that when you change a DMCS time signature, the time signature
is changed from the measure that you change until another time signature
of a different value, or the end of the piece, is encountered. DMCS will
also combine a time signature changes of the same value when a change is
made. For example, if the following sequence of time signatures occurs:
3/4 4/4 5/4 4/4
meas a … meas b … meas c … meas d
changing the time signature in meas c to 4/4 would result in the following
time signature changes remaining in the score:
3/4 4/4
meas a … meas b … meas c … meas d
Your problem with using 35/1 and the 16th notes is a display problem. The
notes should play OK, but trying to display 560 notes in the space of one
measure is going to result in just what you're seeing. You might want to
experiment along those lines to come up with combination that displays
well for you, and still does the job in playing the chant. Remember that
you can always speed up the tempo and use quarter notes, rather than using
16th notes.
Typically in DMCS, one ends up using tie's a lot to make timing work
properly.
Hope this helps, 8)
David