Re: Angry Birds - musicxml2ly errors

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 2012/5/24 Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did a little experiment. Someone wrote a Bach-style fugue on the theme of
>> Angry Birds using MuseScore.
>>
>> I exported the tune as MusicXML. Then I imported the MusicXML back to
>> MuseScore - no problem. Next experiment: I used musicxml2ly to see what
>> LilyPond would do with this tune.
>>
>> But it exposes some ugly errors in the result.
>
> Whoever did this in MuseScore, put a pitched rest in measure 54 in the
> wrong staff. That produces
>
>   b''''''''''''''''''''4 \rest r8 a,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,16 [ b16 ] | % 55
>
> and a ridiculous piano brace in page 3. I am talking about the result
> of processing the mxl file directly with musicxml2ly.
>
> Changing that line into
>
>   b4 \rest r8 a16 [ b16 ] | % 55
>
> solves that problem.
>
> Then, there is an e2 ~ s4. which doesn't make sense (see bar 66 in
> PartPOneVoiceSix, line 226), changing that line into
>
>   e2 | % 66
>
> solves the other problem I see and makes a decent PDF.

That's the problem with WYSIWYG.  The Midi would likely have been off as
well (though inaudibly so), but it would probably not be easy to see
why.

-- 
David Kastrup