Chapter 12

Glossary

12.1

Score Formats

Score - A musical piece compiled as a document. A score usually contains more

than one part with all the parts to be played together. In SmartScore, it is a single

computer file; an ENF file. A hand-written score is called a manuscript.

Part - A part is represented by a staff line either alone (solo part) or grouped into a

system with other instruments (ensemble part). A part is usually an single instru-

ment, but in the case of two-handed instruments (piano, organ, xylophone, etc.), it

may represent one hand's part.

Voice - Derived from choral music but applied to instrumental music as well, con-

trapuntal voicing (sometimes referred to as polyphonic voicing) refers to a unique

melodic thread distinct from other voices in a measure by its harmonic direction

and possibly its timbre. Contrapuntal voices reside in the same measure of the same

staff. Voices are often distinguished by stem direction and sometimes by offsetting

the horizontal position of notes. For the purposes of SmartScore, a "voice" written

in its own staff line is referred to as a "Part".

Score-Part - Scores that are printed in sets for each individual instrument. Players

read from their own unique set of pages. For example, a duet for guitar and flute

would be printed in two separate sets: one for the flute player and one for the guitar.

Staves of part scores flow like a book where each staff line appends to the one

above it.

Ensemble - Scores that have multiple staff lines connected by a vertical bar or

"bracket" (usually along the left-hand edge of the music). When joined in this way,

each staff line represents a different part or instrument. All parts are played

"ensemble". Piano music, (with left-hand and right-hand staves) are joined into one

system, is regarded as "ensemble". SmartScore assigns each stave to separate MIDI

tracks.

Landscape - Some scores are wider than they are high. These "landscape" layouts

need to be rotated prior to processing.

Folio - Large sized and conductor scores may need to be scaled down during scan-

ning or reduced on a copy machine before scanning. If the score must be reduced

more than 50% in order to fit the imaging area of your scanner, you may consider

scanning each full-sized page twice and treat each scan as one "image-page".

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