1. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; - Example: "he studied the score of the sonata" [syn: score, musical score]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
musical score
n 1: a written form of a musical composition; parts for
different instruments appear on separate staves on large
pages; "he studied the score of the sonata" [syn: score,
musical score]