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'SCORE (O.E.' scor, from sceran, to cut, notch, cf. "shear"), properly a notch or groove cut in a piece of wood, called a "tally" (q.v.), as a method of counting; hence an account or reckoning made in this way. Either from a custom of keeping each series of twenty numbers or notches on a separate tally, or of marking the twentieth number by a longer or deeper mark, the word was early used to denote the number twenty; it is still used as a measure of weight, equivalent to 20 lb, computing the weight of animals sold for slaughtering for food. In music, a score is the written or printed copy of a composition on two or more staves, barred and braced together. For instrumental and vocal music a "full score" has the parts for each class of voice and instrument on a separate staff.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Score'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/score.html. 1910.
 
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