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dJe781 t1_j6yma54 wrote

Reply to comment by cosifantuttelebelle in I'm Yves Abel, Principal Conductor of the San Diego Opera. I’ve conducted all over the globe, and even got to work with the great Leonard Bernstein while in training. AMA! by sandiegoopera

Please forgive my ignorance. What is a score? (I can speculate but it's not ideal)

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cosifantuttelebelle t1_j6ymq8g wrote

Hey no worries! Basically a written copy of the music they are playing. Going “scoreless” is a conductor going to the podium without any sheet music. The term “score”, in an opera context for example, is end-to-end, all of the instrumental + vocal parts written out in musical notation.

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