Definition of Musical score

1. Noun. A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages. "He studied the score of the sonata"

Exact synonyms: Score
Terms within: Musical Notation
Generic synonyms: Sheet Music
Derivative terms: Score

Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Score

musical murmur
musical notation
musical note
musical octave
musical organisation
musical organization
musical perception
musical performance
musical phrase
musical rhythm
musical saw
musical saws
musical scale
musical scales
musical score (current term)
musical soiree
musical style
musical theater
musical theme
musical time
musical time signature
musicale
musicales
musicalise
musicalised
musicalises
musicalising
musicalities
musicality

Literary usage of Musical score

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Robert Latta (1898)
"This order of thoughts is like the musical score assigned to the animal musician of which we have been speaking. In order that the soul may from moment to ..."

2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"W. A sentence pictures facts as a musical score pictures a piece of music. ... It is the rule of translation of the language of the musical score into the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"He would be sitting quietly in a chair or singing some imaginary musical score, when he would suddenly fall to the floor and roll over and over from one end ..."

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