Scoring

This lesson is part of the Style & Compositional Techniques category.

Objectives

• Students will be familiar with different types of repeat notation, including endings, text repeats and note and measure repeats
• Students will be familiar with the process of extracting instrumental parts
• Students will be familiar with scoring conventions for chamber and orchestral scores
• Students will be familiar with jazz improvisational notation, lead sheets and chord/fretboard diagrams

Class Activities

• Discussion and definition of various types of repeat notation in traditional notation
• Demonstration of part extraction in notation software
• Examination and analysis of different types of scores and sheet music

Assignments

• Extracting a transposed part from a given score