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Notation reference
Time signatures
Time signatures indicate the meter of music, and apply to all bars from where they first appear until a subsequent change of time signature. Meter describes the rhythmic pulse of music, and its division into beats and bars.
Positions of time signatures
Standard time signatures are positioned on staves with the middle staff line, or only staff line for single-line staves, passing through their center. Large time signatures can be positioned in the middle or at the top of bracket groups, or above staves at system object positions.

Positions of time signatures

Standard time signatures are positioned on staves with the middle staff line, or only staff line for single-line staves, passing through their center. Large time signatures can be positioned in the middle or at the top of bracket groups, or above staves at system object positions.

Dorico Elements automatically positions time signatures after clefs, key signatures, and barlines.

You can move time signatures to different rhythmic positions in Write mode. They are positioned automatically to avoid collisions.

You can also change the position of time signatures in each layout independently; for example, if you want to show time signatures above the staff and at system object positions in some layouts but only once per bracket in other layouts.