Practice Scores for Conducting an Orchestra

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In this clip we'll be talking about the practice score and scores in general. So the practice score is something that you're going to be using a lot. Large scores can be hard to deal with sometimes. They are usually eleven by seventeen if not larger. And they can be really, you know hard to carry around, a lot of them at a time. So you're going to get used to using pocket scores, or practice scores or study scores. Their usually about this size and everything is really small. Because they have to fit a lot of instruments on a small page. But it is so small you can carry around with you almost anywhere. And if you have a good recording of the piece or you are just studying it. You can take this on a plane, train, whatever. And inside it has usually the whole piece. It might even have you know all the movements of the symphony or whatever and you can go online and look up practice scores, study scores, pocket scores. And they are an important thing in conducting library because when you a piece you might be conducting from a large score. It might be a rental. It might be something you can't get your hands on until when you want it. So you might need to get a study score to study it. Then you'll have the actual full size score for the concert and the rehearsals. So if you want to look that up those are practice scores, study scores or pocket scores.

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