A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9, 000 English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek Words and Phrases Used in the Art and Science of Music, Carefully Defined, and with the Accent of the Foreign Words Marked; Preceded by Rules ForExcerpt from A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9, 000 English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek Words and Phrases Used in the Art and Science of Music, Carefully Defined, and With the Accent of the Foreign Words Marked; Preceded by Rules for the Pronunciation of Italian IT is the aim of this Dictionary of Musical Terms to furnish an accurate and concise explanation of any technical word or phrase which the student is apt to meet with. The English vocabulary will be found practically exhaustive. Want of space forbade making the foreign vocabulary equally so; but the editor has endeavored to preserve a proper balance by giving any term, appearing in either German, French, or Italian, in each of those languages, thus maintaining a con sistent polyglot character so far as necessary limitations permitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
