The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms

The editor of this handy little dictionary was also responsible for The Oxford Companion to Music (Latham, 2002), and she has drawn on that work, whittling the 8,000 or more entries down to over 2,500, mainly by leaving out all the entries dealing with individual composers, musical instruments and titles of compositions. The terms used in Western art music that the player, teacher and listener will regularly come across in scores, recordings and programme notes, are defined here with translations from the Italian, German and French, the major European language areas with a strong musical tradition.

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