Transferring file from Sibelius to Dorico via MusicXML. I’m using the latest Sibelius. (I also tried to install the Dolet 8 plugin over there, but it never showed up as an option where it was supposed to.)
Piece is a nonet: 8 instruments plus piano. 3 movements transferred perfectly (!). 4th movement: 313 measures total. Piano part has no notes after m. 53 except for dynamics. All other parts have no notes after m 157 except for dynamics. (There was one other weirdness–a quadruple dotted breve in one of the parts–but that disappeared when I deleted a signpost, I believe a meter-change one.)
When I tried re-importing the MusXML file into Sibelius, it all came back in perfectly.
Any hope for me?
I’m attaching the MusicXML file in case someone can see what’s going on. Oops, I can’t. Here’s a link to it: Dropbox
Thanks!
First of all I opened your file in MuseScore 4, which is reasonably tolerant of musicxml errors. It gave this message:
Incomplete bar: Full score, bar 53, stave 9. Found: 1663/1536. Expected: 139/128.
Incomplete bar: Full score, bar 53, stave 10. Found: 1663/1536. Expected: 139/128.
Next I opened it in Dorico 5 Pro. There were no error messages. The piano part was empty after bar 53.
In the MuseScore import, I noticed that the piano part at bar 53 had some extra rests, which I could not delete. If they show up in the original Sibelius file, you might like to try deleting them there and then re-export the file.
The Dolet plug-in will give better results in many cases. You might need to stop and restart Sibelius to see it show up.
In MuseScore I deleted the piano notes in bar 53 and then exported twice, once with the full score and the other with only the piano part, and then imported them into Dorico. Apart from the missing notes in bar 53, the piano part seemed to be complete(?) until the end. However, in the full score the piano part was all over the place. Here are the two musicxml files exported from MuseScore in case they are of any help. You might have to do a copy-and-paste between them and another file. I have compressed the files into a .zip folder.
2 files.zip (140.3 KB)
This helped. I got rid of those strange rests in Sibelius; then I brought the cross-staff notes back down and re-exported. At that point the Dorico file wasn’t 100% right, but by going through it carefully in Dorico and getting rid of extra rests (thank you, insert mode!) I was gradually able to get everything lined up right and it’s now completely fixed.
I did various things to try to install the Dolet plug-in, but I could never find it in the plug-ins menu. My problem is solved without it anyhow; don’t know if I’ll need it later yet. Thanks,