4 Aural Scores

Aural scores are scores that are produced a posteriori, transcriptions that visualize music graphically and thus enable analytical perception of the music. They were created above all for electroacoustic music, such as György Ligeti’s Artikulation (1958), for which Rainer Wehinger produced a study score in 1970.^[19] In compositions for live performers with audiotape, transcriptions are often produced that have a graphic representation of the audiotape part in a system above or below the instrumental or vocal part in order to facilitate the synchronization of the performer to the tape. These transcriptions are referred to as performance or playing scores and are effectively cue sheets for the performer. For Karlheinz Stockhausen’s electronic Studie II, there is a somewhat more analytical score produced subsequently;^[20] its documentary accuracy allows a second realization of the piece. The score for Stripsody by the singer Cathy Berberian was created by an artist according to her instructions.^[21] Aural scores for electronic music also have artistic value, such as those designed in 2006 in classes led by cyan, the team Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler, as well as Carsten Nicolai, at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in Leipzig.^[22]