Gould recommends a cross together with a tempo marking "senza misura". Kurt
Stone however recommends a zero.
Best, David
On 17 Apr 2014 11:28, "James Harkins" <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a piece that will have a few cadenzas. In the cadenza
> pseudo-bars, I want to print some kind of glyph where the time signature
> would normally go, to indicate that this "bar" is unmetered.
>
> My first thought was a 0, and I found in the manual that I can actually
> get the 0 to appear in the right place like this (using 2.18):
>
> \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.style = #'single-digit
> \time 0/4
> \cadenzaOn
>
> (Compilable example below, with a further hack.)
>
> But this breaks note spacing. If I change it to "\time 1/4," then I get
> reasonable note spacing. "\time 0/4" puts the minimum space between note
> heads. In one passage, I'm using two voices with spacer rests to suggest
> something like polyphony from a clarinet, and the minimum-space issue
> completely destroys the spacers.
>
> I can hack around that problem like this, but... wow, that smells as foul
> as 6-month-old milk left out of the fridge...
>
> \version "2.18.0"
> \language "english"
>
> \score {
> \new Staff \relative c' {
> cs1 R1\fermataMarkup \bar "||"
> \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.style = #'single-digit
> \time 0/4
> \cadenzaOn
> s32
> \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil = ##f
> \time 1/4
> r8 f, ( d' [ e ] ) e'' [ ( cs b ] )
> }
> }
>
> Is there a more elegant way?
>
> (Out of curiosity, what glyph would Gould recommend for this case?)
>
> hjh
>
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