rmd@rmd:~/Music/night$ musicxml2ly O\ Holy\ Night\ -\ NP.xml musicxml2ly: Reading MusicXML from O Holy Night - NP.xml ... musicxml2ly: Converting to LilyPond expressions... musicxml2ly: warning: Negative skip -3/2 (from position 249/2 to 123) musicxml2ly: warning: Negative skip -9/8 (from position 993/8 to 123) [ 350 similar errors] musicxml2ly: Converting to LilyPond expressions... musicxml2ly: Converting to LilyPond expressions... musicxml2ly: warning: Negative skip -1 (from position 275/2 to 273/2) musicxml2ly: Converting to LilyPond expressions... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2986, in main() File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2981, in main voices = convert (filename, options) File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2892, in convert score = extract_score_structure (mxl_pl, staff_info) File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 430, in extract_score_structure staff = read_score_part (el) File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 383, in read_score_part staff.instrument_name = extract_display_text (partname) File "/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 907, in extract_display_text child = el.get_maybe_exist_named_child ("display-text") File "/usr/share/lilypond/2.18.2/python/musicxml.py", line 114, in get_maybe_exist_named_child return self.get_maybe_exist_typed_child (get_class (name)) File "/usr/share/lilypond/2.18.2/python/musicxml.py", line 123, in get_maybe_exist_typed_child raise "More than 1 child", klass TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str rmd@rmd:~/Music/night$