Introduction to Playing From Score

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. By the term Playing from Score is meant the reproduction of a work written for a number of parts (human voices, instruments, or both) in a more or less faithful arrangement on the piano or organ. Without some kind of arrangement such a performance will be possible but in few cases. An introduction to score-playing must, therefore, elucidate clearly those principles according to which we should proceed in cases where the strict repro duction must be departed from; it must also state how to group in eve1y case most suitably in piano form, that which lies too far apart or intermixes too closely. Playing from score is always a kind of improvisation of the piano score.