Re: Terminology question

[Jacques Menu]

Hello everybody,

Thanks for your answers, parts/staves/voices extraction will do for what I have 
in mind.

A nice w/e!

JM

> Le 13 nov. 2021 à 23:34, Leo Correia de Verdier 
> <leo.correia.de.verdier@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> I’ve just said writing parts (from a score) even if that, for most of my 
> musicwriting life, mostly meant layout. 
> 
>> 13 nov. 2021 kl. 23:23 skrev David Nalesnik <david.nalesnik@gmail.com>:
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 3:42 PM Kieren MacMillan
>> <kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>>> The *extraction* of parts is something that only
>>>> makes sense in times of computer score representation, as you’d extract a 
>>>> part
>>>> of the information from a full score.
>>> 
>>> I know it’s a fine semantic point… but the dictionary gives the definition 
>>> “the action of taking out something”. What better word is there to describe 
>>> the action of taking a single instrumental part out of a full orchestral 
>>> score?
>>> 
>> 
>> "Extraction" somehow doesn't imply representation to me.  It's an
>> operation performed on data whether that data yields a score or not.
>> Or I'm just imagining things.  I do like the word.  What else
>> describes the activity which precedes writing out a part?
>> 
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