Music Abbreviations: A Reverse Dictionary

This dictionary brings together terms specific to music. Although the main focus is classical music, there are also entries for jazz and folk. This resource defines the meanings of abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms for musical terms, records labels, performing groups, notation conventions and a variety of music organizations. As the Fine Arts Librarian Emeritus from the University of California, Irvine, the author has published others monographs in the area of music bibliography including Women in Music (Hixon and Hennessee, 1993) and Music in Early America, (Hixon, 1970).

Divided into two sections, the first part of...