Orchestral Music General Score Reading [PDF]

Although written primarily to accommodate the needs of conductors teaching music to improve their professional skills, Readings from the General Score of Orchestral Music is nonetheless equally useful for composers, music theorists, and teachers of theory of compositional techniques.

The main contents of "Orchestral Music General Score Reading" can be divided into two main parts, namely: the transposition reading of various transposed instrument voices and the law of general score reduction. In the order of arrangement, these two parts are interspersed, so that readers can apply them to the reading of the general score immediately after learning a key reading method, and at the same time, they can also combine the general score with the study of some basic laws of the general score downsizing. In our teaching practice, we feel that this kind of cross-study method is more vivid, and it is easy to arouse interest in frequent contact with the general score, and the transposition reading method that has just been learned can be consolidated in time in the application.

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preamble
preface
Chapter 1: Principles of Transposition Reading and General Knowledge of Reading General Scores
1 Shift Reading Principle
2 six clefs
3-octave shifted reading of the voice
4 Multi-line Spectrogram
5-voice interlacing
Downsizing Rules for General Scores (I)
6 in the right hand division need not be fixed
7 Movement and omission of inner voices
8 On the pronunciation of the "leaning" and "arpeggiated" forms

Chapter 2 Alto Clef
9 Alto clef
Exercise 2
Downsizing Rules for General Scores (II)
10 Pronunciation of vibrato
11 Omission of repeated outer voices
Exercise 3

Chapter 3: Tenor clef and transpositional reading of instrumental voices in the key of bB
12 Tenor clef
13 transposed instruments
Instruments in the key of 14bB
15 Transpositional clef for bB-flat instrumental parts notated in treble clef
16 Principles of adjusting the key signatures and transposing the key signatures of instrumental voices in the key of bB
Actual pitch after 17 clef change
18 Transpositional reading of bB-flat instrument voices in bass clef notation
19 Transpositional key signatures for voices of transposed instruments without key signatures
Exercise 4
20 Maintaining a fixed rhythm in the inner voices
21 Pronunciation of polyphonic voices
Exercise 5

Chapter 4: Reading Temporary Elevation and Lowering Marks in the Vocal Parts of Transposed Instruments
22 Principles of Reading Temporary Elevation and Lowering Marks in the Vocal Parts of Transposed Instruments
Exercise 6
Laws of general score reduction (IV)
23 Chord readings in the whole song
24 Selection of easy-to-read voices
Exercise 7

Chapter 5 Tenor clef and transpositional reading of instrumental voices in the key of F
25 Treble clef
Instrument in the key of 26F
27 Transpositional reading of an instrumental part in the key of F in treble clef notation
28 Transpositional reading of an instrumental part in the key of F in bass clef notation
Exercise 8
Laws of general score reduction (V)
29 Harp Scratch Reading
30 Timpani rolls
31 On the reading of percussion instruments with no fixed pitch
Exercise 9

Chapter 6: Soprano clef and transpositional reading of instrumental voices in the key of A
32 Soprano clef
Instruments in the key of 33A
34 Transpositional reading of the voice part of an instrument in the key of A in treble clef notation
35 Transpositional reading of the vocal part of an instrument in the key of A in bass clef notation
Exercise 10
Laws of general score reduction (VI)
36 Simplification and omission of parallel voices
37 Simplification and Omission of Accompaniment Patterns
38 Simplification and omission of sustained voices
39 Simplification and omission of secondary voices
40 Easy Read
Exercise 11

Chapter 7: Transpositional Reading of Uncommonly Transposed Instrumental Voices
41 Method for finding the transposition clef using the third line as a benchmark
42 Finding the Transposition Clef on the Basis of the C Note
Key signatures and temporary notation for transpositional readings of instrumental voices in the key of 43E
Key signatures and temporary notation for transpositional readings of instrumental voices in the key of 44bE
Key signatures and temporary notation for transpositional readings of voices in the key of 45D
46 Actual Pitch Problems
47 Reading of instrumental voices in the key of G
Exercise 12

Chapter 8: Isochronous Transformations of Transpositional Pronunciation
48 Isochronous Transformations of Transpositional Readings of the Clef
49 Equal-tone shift transposition reading of key signatures
50 Reading of the temporary elevation mark
51 Actual Pitch Problems
Appendix I: List of transpositional readings for the voices of various transposed instruments
Appendix II: Catalog of Works Cited in this Book
Appendix III: Comparison of Chinese and Foreign Musical Instrument Names and Abbreviations