music score

Conductor's reading material

A music score is the written form of a musical composition, showing all parts for all instruments or voices arranged on staves.

Conductors read from the full score while individual musicians play from their own parts.

Score alone often means the same thing: studying the score before rehearsal.

Film scores are the musical accompaniment composed for movies.

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dynamics · melody · tablature · fermata · lead sheet · time signature · bar lines · coda · arrangement · orchestration · ledger lines · treble clef · phrasing · counterpoint · sight-reading · page turner · chord progression · opus

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notation vs. sound

music scorerecording

Captured audio or video

audio recording · live performance · sound recording · playback · performance

composed/fixed vs. improvised

music scoreimprovisation

Spontaneous, unplanned creation

jam session · extemporization · playing by ear · ad-lib · busking

visual vs. auditory medium

music scoreaudio

Transmitted sound content

sound · oral tradition

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