vocal score

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

In the "Fidelio" sketch-book, for example, sixteen pages are almost entirely filled with sketches for a scene which takes up less than three pages of the vocal score.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Finck, Henry Theophilus