Score-Reading Spotter

A worksheet on finding your way around a full score — the standard top-to-bottom order, the five facts to find before reading a note, and two graded exercises spotting facts and deliberate errors in a printed extract.

What's inside

• The standard top-to-bottom order of a full score, and where words like tempo, dynamics and playing instructions belong
• Five facts to find before reading a single note — instrument names, transposing staves, clefs, concert key and tempo
• How to read down a chord across transposing and non-transposing staves to find the concert harmony
• A four-stave extract with twelve spot-the-fact questions and four worked-out questions on transposition and chords
• A five-fault spotting exercise on a trombone and trumpet extract, covering score order, clef, key signature, bar length and dynamic placement, with a full answer key