polymetric music writing

Hi,
Please write me someone who knows how to stand 2 polymetric lines at the same time. What program can do this, cause its impossible to write this with sibelius
Thanks chivilis@mail.tele2.lt

Angry first post, impressive.

Care explaining your problem a bit more thoroughly? I think you're trying to ask how to notate it or what program would allow yuou to notate it, but your wording is a little ambiguous.

Keep angry, and welcome to YC

In my opinion, Finale is superior to sibelius in every single way. It's a bit more difficult and less user-friendly, but it allows you more flexibility with things like this.

What is the context? Sometimes using multiple simultaneous time signatures makes things unnecessarily complex, and it's better to notate them within one meter. On the other hand, such flashy notation could impress a hot amateur flautist towards more fruitful ends.... or trombonist. Whatever floats your boat.

Chivi... try Harmony Assistant, there's a way to do it in there, but it's awkward and buggy.

thanks

Wow, how would you conduct multiple meters at once anyways? Or proper multi-measure rests? Or.... -_-

You don't, really. Someone eventually re-writes so it *can* be actually performed, or it just goes un-performed forever.

or it's for a chamber group and each musician counts for himself.

or are performers not expected to do that?

its for chamber group

Originally Posted by MonteCristo

Wow, how would you conduct multiple meters at once anyways? Or proper multi-measure rests? Or.... -_-

Well, as long as it's just two meters that's no problem. Most conductors have two hands. And conducting two different meters at one time is actually a rather common practice for conductors to train independancy between your hand movements.

But in more complex cases, such stuff is often played with click-tracks. Give every musician some earbuds with their own metronome clicks and it works nicely, even though the use of click-tracks is shunned by many, since it detracts from listening to the other musicians. But in very complex cases it's probably the only viable option. (But I'm thinking of different tempi here too. If it's just different meters with the same fundemental beat, that's not really necessary. Every musician just has to count well.)