IMSLP uses the term "Extract" when the score is available but no parts are and you want to have the parts; it does the extraction for you.
Ken On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 2:41 PM Jacques Menu <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > > 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.verd...@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.nales...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 3:42 PM Kieren MacMillan > >> <kieren_macmil...@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? > >> > > > >
