In some Projects I use figured bass extensively and therefore rely also on a stable export to musicXML. Most of my older exports come from MuseScore 3 and they can be imported and converted in MEI (e.g. through mei-friend) without much loss of information.
Trying a similiar thing in Dorico I found that the figures are exported as annouced in 2020:
3.5: MusicXML tempo export (also fermata, trill, figured bass)
Reimporting the musicXML shows that the export is not displaying correctly e.g. in mei-friend or in MuseScore (attachment to a wrong staff or rhythmic shifts). Maybe it is partially because the export is not containing e.g. duration or extensions parameters. I attach the two files I’ve tested. Maybe in a future version the export could be added? i’d like to use Dorico for future works, because I like the modes of input.
Best Regards,
Moritz
Generalbass Test - Partitur - 01 Partie 1.musicxml (34,2 KB)
Generalbass_Test-ms3.musicxml (28,4 KB)
It takes two to play the MusicXML game. The result depends both on how the XML is created, and how it is interpreted by the importing software.
Both files import into Dorico correctly. So the correct data must be there somewhere.
Thanks for your fast reply and appologies for my late response.
I actually haven’t tried to reimport into Dorico, because I specifically need an option to convert files into a format that is parsed in a stable way by other applications. Reimporting into dorico is not the main usecase.
An example, for musicological work the tooling of mei-friend and MuseScore works pretty well. I know that musicxml per se is a bit tricky (with figured bass especially). But by now, dorico is the application that does something different in encoding and parsing the xml compared to MuseScore and mei-friend.
I know it’s maybe a question of the standard itself, but currently for me it makes a big difference to know whether the musicxml comaptibility with other applications is still a development focus in dorico or rather not.