full score
Noun
Meaning
full score (plural full scores)
(music) a large book showing all the notes of a composition with many simultaneous parts (instruments or voices), with all the parts shown in lines underneath each other in a fixed order. Commonly used by conductors.
Examples
Elgar left the opening of the symphony complete in full score, and those pages, along with others, show Elgar's orchestration changed markedly from the richness of his pre-war work.
Taruskin (1993: pp. 220, 222–223) Mussorgsky worked rapidly, composing first the vocal score in about nine months (finished 18 July 1869), and completed the full score five months later (15 December 1869), at the same time working as a civil servant.
John Pickard: Eden, full score, Kirklees Music, 2005.
Many conductors are trained in piano, because it allows them to play parts of the symphonies they are conducting (using a piano reduction or doing a reduction from the full score), so that they can develop their interpretation.
McClary, p. 18 Only late in the 20th century did dialogue versions become common in opera houses outside France, but there is still no universally recognised full score.
No list of numbers is printed in the published full score.