vocal score

noun

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

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

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

From Washington Post

“A big parcel came and it was my vocal score for West Side Story,” she says.

From The Guardian

As a result, arts institutions from across the continent and the Atlantic — among them, Washington Performing Arts — have invested in an endeavor that Bowen and like-minded artists are now developing: an expansively reimagined “Treemonisha,” for which only a piano and vocal score exists, in the Library of Congress.

From Washington Post

Using the existing incomplete score, a piano/vocal score of the newly discovered quintet and clues from recordings and Rossini’s other operas, deRosa pieced together a sort of Franken-score, fully orchestrated for small ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times