From the course: Learning Music Notation
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Score setup: Page basics
- [Narrator] While there's a great deal of latitude in the formatting of musical scores, there are general conventions that help conductors and musicians easily find the information necessary to organize rehearsals and create successful performances. Let's begin this discussion with the score setup basics. Scores will typically have title pages. And on that title page you'll see the name of the work and the ensemble that the work was created for. So, for example, here we have Symphony for Orchestra. The page will always contain the composer's name, and all these three things are usually in large font, that's followed by a numbering system that tells the order which this work was created in the composer's lifetime. That's usually referred to as the opus number. And then at the bottom of the title page you'll see publication information. Now, a lot of scores include a preface. And in that preface there might be a blurb on the work itself, its historical context, things that are…
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