Re: Terminology question

[Kenneth Wolcott]

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-muzhic@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.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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