Before — the bar does not sum
The conversion left this 3/4 bar holding four beats. The score check flags it rather than treating it as ready for export.
One score, traced from source to finished page.
This case study follows StaveWave’s engraving of Bach’s public-domain Sheep May Safely Graze. Both views below are real output from the same renderer used for customer scores.
Case study · Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze.
The complete engraved page, then the MusicXML source and print-ready result side by side. Public domain work, engraved by StaveWave.
Score-check evidence
A bar that failed the check, then passed it.
One flagged bar, and the same bar re-engraved after correction.
After — corrected and re-validated
The note length is corrected, the bar sums to three beats, and the corrected MusicXML is re-engraved.
More excerpts from the score check.
Engraved from real conversion output; the works are unidentified.
Unmatched ties
A tie leaves the bar with no matching note at its endpoint — usually because the second note's pitch was misread.
Notes on the wrong staff
Left-hand material read without a staff assignment defaults to the top staff until it is reassigned.
A clef that does not fit the notes
Every note in the bar sits far above the staff for the clef that was read, so the clef may have been misread.
How an edition is made.
Public-domain source
A score whose copyright has expired — the printed page, a scan, or a PDF from a public archive.
Conversion and score check
Recognition produces draft MusicXML; the score check validates it bar by bar and reports what fails.
Engraving
The validated MusicXML is engraved with optical spacing and clean beaming.
Copyright note: only works in the public domain are published here. Engraving your own score does not publish it; the results remain on your job page.
Bring a MusicXML file and create your own engraved edition.
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