From the course: Learning Music Notation

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Score

- [Instructor] Scores vary in the number and order of instruments, musical style, and the presence or absence of markings. Let's discuss the process for creating, adding notes and markings, and formatting a score. So in a previous chapter on score setup, we talked a lot about scores themselves, and I thought it would be helpful to talk about the actual process that one goes through in setting up a score. So I'll take you through kind of how I do this. So first of all, I really think about the format and style of the work. If this is a classical piece, I'm gonna do this all in portrait orientation for the page, and I'm gonna use an engraving style of font. If this is maybe more of a contemporary piece of music, that is for jazz, pop, or for Broadway musical or something like that, then a lot of times a hand-drawn font is much more common historically for those kinds of work, and so fonts have been developed that look quite good, and these fonts are available on computer. So throughout…

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