Score playing

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Score playing is a musical skill of répétiteurs , conductors , church musicians and choir directors .

When playing the score, the player reads the harmonic and melodic essential parts of an orchestral score and plays them back on a keyboard instrument , usually a piano, in order to get to know the rough structure of the orchestral work or to make it known to others. Playing the score of a répétiteur helps singers or instrumentalists to familiarize themselves with the overall sound of the work during rehearsals.

In the case of simpler scores, such as polyphonic choral works, the player can play all the voices on the keyboard instrument at the same time. In works with a large cast, fast passages or complicated leaps in intervals, he has to reduce the musical text to the essentials. Knowledge of all clefs and the transposing instruments is necessary for playing the score . In the training of conductors, church musicians, composers, music theorists, school musicians and choir conductors, but also of sound engineers , score playing is a regular examination subject. Conductors and senior church musicians are usually expected to play a complex musical work such as a symphony or an oratorio . With part-time church musicians, playing the score is usually limited to a simple four-part movement . In practice, a piano reduction is often used instead of the score .

history

Girolamo Frescobaldi already pointed out the importance of the score playing in 1635 in the preface to his publication Fiori Musicali , which was printed as an organ work in score form. As a touchstone, it distinguished the real artist from the ignorant.

Exercise material

  • Heinrich Creuzburg : Score play. 4 volumes. Schott, Mainz 1956
  • Egon Bölsche : School of Score Playing. CF Peters, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Günter Fork : School of Score Playing. 2 volumes. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1980–1982
  • Franz Wüllner, Eberhard Schwickerath : Choir exercises. Issue in old keys. Sikorski, Hamburg 1954
  • Woldemar Bargiel (Ed.): JS Bach, four-part church chants. Output in C keys. Bote & Bock, Berlin approx. 1891

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hochschule für Musik Detmold: Study regulations for the diploma course in music transmission (sound engineer) from April 12, 1999 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 16 kB)