I have just been invited to give a talk at the biennial conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. I will be presenting my doctoral research, a multi-university experiment to determine whether the presence of a score affects to a significant degree the music listening experience of the listener-viewer in response to unfamiliar art music. I discovered that the act of score reading affects listeners’ enjoyment of a piece, their opinion of its technical execution, and their judgment of its compositional merit, depending on the compositional grammar of the piece and the reading proficiency of the subject.