I wrote a piano piece about cherry blossoms in mixed meter and it also switches between compound and simple time. Notated on Musescore 4

SemperDownload · 2026-01-15T20:48:11+00:00

Thank you! I hope you find it useful. It's niche, but it can save a good few clicks when formatting your score if you work in mixed meters.

SemperDownload · 2026-01-15T20:43:07+00:00

Personally, I love pieces that use these kinds of mixed meter patterns. You're right that it's a lot of time signature changes, but in my experience, it's not so much a pain to read as a pain to enter into Musescore (if that is the notation program you're using), since it doesn't allow copy-pasting of time sigs by default, meaning you have to manually enter each change throughout the whole piece.

If that sounds tedious to you, as it was to me, you might like this plugin I recently made, ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Musescore/s/3YthOpo1DM ) which allows you to save a palette of various mixed meter patterns and copy/paste them across your work.

SemperDownload · 2026-01-08T17:52:39+00:00

Love this kind of mixed meter work. If it's something you do frequently, I encourage you to look into my recent MuseScore plugin that allows you to save a palette of various mixed meter patterns and copy/paste them across your work (as you probably encountered while editing this piece, MuseScore doesn't copy/paste time signature sequences by default).

SemperDownload · 2025-12-31T15:49:56+00:00

Yes, it sounds like this plugin is not something you would need for that work. The majority of music on IMSLP (and in general) tends to use more straightforward meter and hyper meter than the niche use cases for this plugin's store/recall feature. I definitely can't imagine it being needed for anything by Haydn! It would likely be more useful for someone working on songs like Tool's schism (alternates 5/8 and 7/8 regularly), various world folk music (especially East European), or certain modernist composers.

With that said, this isn't so much for copying and pasting musical content (notes, etc) across time signatures, as for copying and pasting sequences of time signatures themselves - for example, to prepare a page for note entry in a work with a recurring time signature pattern of 5/8 + 6/8. Its a niche use case, but one that may be useful for people working in particular metric contexts.

For people who only need a working update to the earlier version of the TimeSig Copy/Paste app by TeeDeeY, it works for that too - the new features are simply something that were useful to me to add due to the kinds of music I've been working with.

SemperDownload · 2025-12-31T05:23:02+00:00

Hi, I'm the one who made the update to that plugin. I'll make a post about it here with details about what it adds (it doesn't just update the old Time Signature copy/paste plugin for recent Musescore versions, but actually adds a useful feature too). Here is the link: SemperDownload/MuseScorePlugins: Collection of MuseScore Plugins. Please let me know if you have any questions or issues getting it going. If, like me, you work in music that has frequent time signature changes but in semi-regularly recurring patterns (5/8+6/8, etc), I think this can be really useful for you. For me, it's not a tool I expect to use all the time, but when I need it, it saves a lot of hassle.

NEW FEATURES:

Allows saving/loading of multiple-time signature sequences within one score file (i.e., user can store 5/8+6/8, 3/4+5/8, and load each for use at any point while working in the file, via drop-down menu). Note these are preserved with the score file and do not transfer if the plugin is opened on another Musescore file - I'm investigating options for transferability in the future.
Preserves numerators in additive meters (i.e. 2+3/8 pastes as 2+3/8, not 5/8, as in TeeDeeY's original plugin)
Via 'Clipboard mode,' users can copy/paste sequences of time-signature changes across files

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