When the apportioned instrumental and articulate parts of a musical drudgery are printed together, the resulting sheet harmony is called a score. Conventionally, a score consists of musical notation with each instrumental or lyric division in vertical alignment (meaning that concurrent events in the notation for each part are orthographically arranged). The course score has also been used to refer to sheet rock-and-roll written for only odd performer. The distinction between score and fraction applies when there is more than peculiar part needed for performance.

A piano score (or piano reduction) is a augmented or less literal transcription for piano of a piece intended for lousy with performing parts, especially orchestral works; this can include purely instrumental sections within giant verbal works (see phonetic score immediately below). Such arrangements are made for either piano solo (two hands) or piano duet (one or two pianos, four hands). Extra immature staves are sometimes added at sure points in piano scores for two hands in form to make the presentation farther nearly complete, though it is usually impractical or impossible to include them while playing. As with vocalic score (immediately below), it takes considerable skill to reduce an orchestral score to such smaller commandos because the reduction needs to be Sheet Music Cabinets not only playable on the keyboard but also thorough enough in its presentation of the intended harmonies, textures, figurations, etc.