Piano reduction
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A piano reduction is sheet music
for the piano (a piano score) that was once music for other instruments that was reduced to its most basic components within a two line staff for piano. It is also considered a style of orchestration
or music arrangement
less well known as contraction scoring, a subset of elastic scoring
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Sheet music
Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...
for the piano (a piano score) that was once music for other instruments that was reduced to its most basic components within a two line staff for piano. It is also considered a style of orchestration
Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
or music arrangement
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
less well known as contraction scoring, a subset of elastic scoring
Elastic Scoring
Elastic scoring is a style of orchestration or music arrangement that was first used by the Australian composer Percy Grainger.-Purpose:This technique of orchestration is used to provide composers with the option of allowing a diverse group of voices or instrumentalists the ability to perform their...
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