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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    All; all together, usually used in an orchestral or choral score when the orchestra or all of the voices come in at the same time, also seen in Baroque-era music where two instruments share the same copy of music, after one instrument has broken off to play a more advanced form: they both play together again at the point marked tutti.

  3. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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    A vocal score (or, more properly, piano-vocal score) is a reduction of the full score of a vocal work (e.g., opera, musical, oratorio, cantata, etc.) to show the vocal parts (solo and choral) on their staves and the orchestral parts in a piano reduction (usually for two hands) underneath the vocal parts; the purely orchestral sections of the ...

  4. Offstage instrument or choir part in classical music - Wikipedia

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    An offstage instrument or choir part in classical music is a sound effect used in orchestral and opera which is created by having one or more instrumentalists (trumpet players, also called an "offstage trumpet call", horn players, woodwind players, percussionists, other instrumentalists) from a symphony orchestra or opera orchestra play a note, melody, or rhythm from behind the stage, or ...

  5. Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...

  6. Piano–vocal score - Wikipedia

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    While piano-vocal scores tend to consist of the vocal lines and a piano reduction of the whole orchestra onto two staves, piano-conductor scores tend to consist of the vocal lines and one of the orchestral piano parts that already exists, coupled with another staff containing the rest of the orchestral reduction (in contrast to a piano-vocal score, where the piano and other orchestral parts ...

  7. Inside Gustavo Santaolalla's new Spanish 'Dracula' score for ...

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    Composer Gustavo Santaolalla talks about taking on the 1931 classic 'Dracula' score. The Oscar winner takes the United Theater on Broadway stage with the L.A. Opera orchestra.

  8. Orchestration - Wikipedia

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    The score contains all the parts for the singers and the accompaniment parts and melodies for the orchestra. Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble , such as a concert band ) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.

  9. The Music of ‘Wicked’: Stephen Schwartz and ... - AOL

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    Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of “Wicked” is the one who wrote one of Broadway’s all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the ...