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McCoy, who is of Nicaraguan and Irish extraction, says that the standard score for “Fame the Musical” already contained some Latin colors — including in the title number — but that at times these passages have a “stereotyped” sound.

Increasing numbers of players are using iPads and laptops instead of sheet music, especially now that the latest generation of tablets come in the same size as a standard score.

Reese Witherspoon, meanwhile, had a banner year in 2014, after seeing her company, Pacific Standard, score major hits with both Gone Girl and Wild.

The standard score was anywhere from 1-4.

The average vocabulary score for all nine-year-olds in the study was 93, slightly below the test-wide standard score of 100.