Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

[Matthias Böhringer]

Am 11.04.2012 00:20, schrieb Josiah Boothby:
> > > I'm a bit surprised you have musicxml from Sibelius.  As far as I was
> > > aware, it doesn't export into _any_ useful interchange format, including
> > > musicxml.
> >
> > Googling suggests there is an expensive 3rd party program.
>
> Googling also suggests that Sibelius is confident of their MusicXML
> output in version 7.x.
>
> Using xmllint to test for xml validity, it does not appear to have any
> problems there, so it seems to me that there are problems either with
> Sibelius's export to xml or with Lilypond's conversion scripts.
> Sibelius's dev team primarily tests transport to and from Finale, so I
> think both export and conversion are likely culprits for problems.
>
> —Josiah

You could also try to import the musicxml file into MuseScore: MuseScore 
is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It does not only read musicxml, 
but midi as well. Plus: it exports in lilypond-format!

I've had success in reading a musicxml file which would *not* convert 
with the musicxml2ly script. This very file could be imported in 
MuseScore and exported as lilypond file.

Bottom line: give it a try, it might work.

Matthias
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