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Essential reference for every musician: a clear, concise guide to musical terms and abbreviations, with practical guidance for reading scores.
This dictionary offers grounded definitions and translations for a wide range of musical terms, from tempo and dynamics to instrument names and performance directions. It compiles abbreviations and cross-references across languages, helping readers understand how terms appear in scores and manuscript notes.
Whether you are a student, teacher, performer, or music lover, this edition helps you read, interpret, and discuss music with confidence. It presents terms in a practical, accessible way, avoiding jargon and focusing on useful, real?world usage.
- Clear definitions for common and obscure terms, including performance directions, dynamics, and articulation marks
- Translations and cross?references for terms across major languages in music history
- Explanations of instrument names, stops, tunings, and keyboard terminology
- Guidance on score study, notation, and how abbreviations appear in manuscripts
Ideal for readers who want a reliable, easy?to?use reference to unlock the language of music.
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This dictionary, by the composer Sir John Stainer and W. A. Barrett, was first published by Novello in 1876 and subsequently ran to several editions. It provides definitions for 'the chief musical terms met with in scientific, theoretical, and practical treatises, and in the more common annotated programmes and newspaper criticisms'.
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