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MUSICAL SCORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does musical score mean?
• MUSICAL SCORE (noun)
The noun MUSICAL SCORE has 1 sense:
1. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
Familiarity information: MUSICAL SCORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
musical score; score
Context example:
he studied the score of the sonata
Hypernyms ("musical score" is a kind of...):
sheet music (a musical composition in printed or written form)
Meronyms (parts of "musical score"):
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Context examples
They were neatly done in charcoal upon the white surface, and looked to me at first sight like some sort of rough musical score.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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