Definition of manuscript paper in US English:
 manuscript paper
nounˈmænjəˌskrɪpt ˈpeɪpər
Paper printed with staves for writing music on.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  To backtrack to actually reconstructing the piece, I usually start on good old-fashioned manuscript paper with a pencil.
 -  The sensitivity usually rises from musicians desperate to receive some encouragement for the notes they commit to manuscript paper.
 -  She pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper.
 -  The opening allegro was written in a white heat of inspiration, during a holiday in the mountains near Graz; he seems to have run out of manuscript paper, for the last 50 bars are scribbled out on dinner napkins.
 -  The avid mushroom-pickers who encounter a strange figure prostrate on the ground, holding a pencil and manuscript paper in his hands, are startled.
 -  Such basic irritations do not even occur to us when skating across smooth manuscript paper with a ballpoint pen.
 -  And there are several sheets of blank manuscript paper, front and back, for your own notes and silences.
 -  While most girls carry little hand mirrors or hair brushes, Mary always had manuscript paper and a pencil handy in case a sudden inspiration hit that required her to put it onto paper before it left her mind.
 -  Messiaen was not one to waste manuscript paper, so it is possible that he wrote this fragment down in 1965 on a sheet partly used two years earlier.
 -  They even had the basic melody written out on a few sheets of manuscript paper.
 -  To face a blank piece of manuscript paper is difficult for anybody at any time.
 -  Other pieces by Cage were composed by placing notes on physical imperfections in the manuscript paper, by tracing musical patterns from star maps, and so on.
 -  And we all know that musical scores don't just appear on manuscript paper overnight.
 -  I always have some folded-up manuscript paper in it as well.