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, Consisting of nearly three thousand articles more than any English Musical Dictionary extant, with upwards of Two Hundred Engraved Examples 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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Title

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, Consisting of nearly three thousand articles more than any English Musical Dictionary extant, with upwards of Two Hundred Engraved Examples compiled from the most celebrated foreign and English authorities, Interspersed with observations critical and explanatory, by J.F. Danneley, Professor of Music.

Author

DANNELEY, John Feltham (1786-1836)

Publisher

Printed for the Editor and published by Preston, London

Publication year

1825

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Dimensions

8vo. [400] pp. + 4 folding plates.