Brainlag MusicHow a vocal score sets out a choir: the four voices and their staves, the tenor's treble clef with an 8 under it, and how the words sit under the notes.
A vocal score
A vocal score gives each voice its own stave: soprano, alto, tenor and bass (SATB), top to bottom.
The words go under each line. A short score puts the four voices on two staves instead, two to a stave, as in four-part writing.
Music for voices alone, with no instruments, is marked a cappella.
The rest of this lesson and its 5 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.
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- 5 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
- Anything you get wrong is saved to your flashcards