An Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Music; in which not only Every technical word is explained, the formation of every species of compositions distinctly shewn, their harmonies, melodies, periods, cadences, and accentuation, but the various poetic feet employed in music, diapasons of instruments, terms of the ancient Greeks, &c. &c., forming a work of reference to musical students in general, and containing upwards of Two Hundred Engraved Examples, the whole compiled from the most celebrated foreign and English authorities, Interspersed with observations critical and explanatory, by J.F. Danneley, Professor of Music.

Published by Messrs. R. Cocks & Co. [ca 1840], London, 1840

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Size: Small 8vo. [400] pp. + 4 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards (faded and scratched, backstrip missing at upper half). Reprint of the 1825 publication, without date but within the reign of Queen Victoria.

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An Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Music; in which not only Every technical word is explained, the formation of every species of compositions distinctly shewn, their harmonies, melodies, periods, cadences, and accentuation, but the various poetic feet employed in music, diapasons of instruments, terms of the ancient Greeks, &c. &c., forming a work of reference to musical students in general, and containing upwards of Two Hundred Engraved Examples, the whole compiled from the most celebrated foreign and English authorities, Interspersed with observations critical and explanatory, by J.F. Danneley, Professor of Music.
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DANNELEY, John Feltham (1786-1836)
Publisher
Messrs. R. Cocks & Co. [ca 1840], London
Publication year
1840
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Hardcover
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Small 8vo. [400] pp. + 4 folding plates.

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