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vocal score

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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

Part of the Meet the Artist Saturdays series at Lincoln Center, “Little Red Riding Hood” features a vocal score and libretto by Seymour Barab.

From New York Times Jan. 2, 2014

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

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