Music XML noteheads

Dorico
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Hello, I’m algorithmically generating Music XML code with slippery chicken documentation - slippery chicken. This includes things like text marks for fingerings and string numbers, as well as notehead shapes (like X or triangle-up head). Finale and Sibelius import these things just fine but Dorico seems to ignore them. However, Dorico looks so much better, IMO, especially with auto-beautiful layout and secondary-beam breaks, so I’m prepared to re-enter noteheads etc. by hand.

Just wondering if I missed something though, and there’s perhaps a way to get these things imported, or if there are plans to make this happen in an imminently available update?

Best, Michael

2

Different notehead designs are not currently imported from MusicXML files, but we do plan to improve this in future. I can’t say for sure when that will be, however.

3

Hello again, eight years later I find this thread whilst looking for info. on this topic again. By exporting music-xml from Dorico, I learned how rim shots (large circled noteheads) are coded. Upon import however, this (still) isn’t being recognised. Am I missing something or was there no progress on this yet? BTW I’m on version Version 5.1.81.2225. Best, Michael

4

Yes, in general Dorico does consider the information about noteheads when importing MusicXML. Can you provide a small snippet of MusicXML where Dorico isn’t doing the expected thing, so we can take a look?

5

I added a circled note within Dorico itself, exported to xml, imported that generated file to Dorico and for me at least the circle is missing:

  <note>
    <pitch>
      <step>A</step>
      <alter>-1</alter>
      <octave>4</octave>
    </pitch>
    <duration>15</duration>
    <voice>1</voice>
    <type>16th</type>
    <accidental>flat</accidental>
    <stem>up</stem>
    <notehead>circled</notehead>
    <staff>1</staff>
  </note>
6

It turns out that circled noteheads are not currently imported. The values that are currently handled are: slash, triangle, diamond, square, cross, X, circle X, inverted triangle, arrow down, arrow up, slashed, and back slashed. We will add support for circled noteheads in a future update, since that’s easy for us to add.

7

Thanks Daniel.