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vocal score

British  

noun

  1. a musical score that shows voice parts in full and orchestral parts in the form of a piano transcription

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Bicket wrote out a vocal score, filling in the harmonies that Monteverdi left out, noting where chords could be restated or shift in other ways.

From New York Times Jul. 22, 2023

And Kakoma, who goes professionally only by her first name, Somi, had the assignment of creating a vocal score.

From Washington Post Apr. 7, 2021

Let's start with the meter... the publisher has made the vocal score available on their website and all over the score there are the time signatures 2/6 or 5/12 ...

From New York Times Nov. 7, 2017

Their collection soon stretched much further back, with a wealth of Gilbert and Sullivan material, as well as Noel Coward's own vocal score of Bitter Sweet, signed by him and the entire cast.

From The Guardian Dec. 15, 2010

"Staff" is better than "line" for a single staff, and "score" is used meaning the book containing an entire work, as "vocal score," "orchestral score," "full score."

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

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