MusicXML import: single voice parts ending up with chords or multiple voices

Dorico
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I disabled all of Dorico’s “Preserve MusicXML feature” options in the Preferences, and imported the XML of Striggio’s Ecco beatam lucem from this CPDL page: Ecce beatam lucem (Alessandro Striggio) - ChoralWiki . The musicXML file can be accessed directly at https://cpdl.org/wiki/images/e/e7/Striggio_Ecce_beatam_a_40_Partitur.mxl

On importing, many parts lack the time signature that others have, but more concerning is the note clusters that are beinmg created. An example of a single voice part (#22 of 40) may be seen in the image.

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Is this something I am doing? Is there a setting I’ve missed that would clean this up to a great extent? I would be grateful if someone better acquainted with the vagaries of musicXML could attempt the import and let me know if the problem is with the musicXML itself rather than with the import process.

Note: Dorico did complain that the musicXML had errors, but as far as I could tell those errors were only concerned with midi mappings being out of range. I wouldn’t have thought that would be the cause of what I’m seeing in the resulting score, and include it only for completeness’s sake.

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The problem is likely with the MusicXML itself — or rather the program that exported it. I can’t look at the MusicXML code itself, as the file is a compressed binary MXL file; but the MIDI file available from the same site, presumably from the same author and exported from the same engraving program looks like a lost case:

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All 40 parts are on one track, and the voices are not even separated by channel (everything on “channel 2”).

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I believe it is just a zip file. I used 7-zip to extract it. From what I can make out of measure 8, part 20 in the xml file, what shows up on the score in Dorico is what’s in the MusicXML file. I think maybe the source is the problem, not Dorico’s input.

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The MusicXML was exported by Harmony Assistant, which is known to produce somewhat eccentric MusicXML. Even MuseScore, which typically does a good job of handling broken MusicXML files, doesn’t know what to make of it.

I know it’s annoying, but I think in this instance you might be better off inputting the music yourself.

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I rather thought that might be the case. Thanks for confirming.