A dictionary of foreign musical terms and handbook of orchestral instruments

ADICTIONARYOFFOREIGN MUSICAL TERMSANDHANDBOOKOFORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTSBYTOM S.WOTTONLEIPZIGBREITKOPF & HARTEL1907Published April 1907.of in the United StatesPrivilege copyrightreserved under the Act Marchapproved 3,by BREITKOPF&HARTEL, Leipzig.1905,ML\ 0?6679515'. // sv/PREFACE.In these of when almostfull-scores,days inexpensive everyone,to bewith considered ofpretence musical, possessesany copiestheir favourite works in the orchestral some suchoriginal form,as the seems The dic-dictionary present necessary. previousof musical terms weretionaries before the cult of thepublished"miniature" score and before the of musicalbegan, employmentdirections in the own became socomposer's language universal,orchestral terms were as not ofand thus, many omitted, beingand thesufficient of Germangeneral interest, explanation manyindications in was considered(now use)everyday unnecessary.Even in Italian musician's until recent(the language years),alterations have taken which dictionaries have notplace, existingand hence while for is asnoted, Clarino, example, explained beingname for a is said as to the word nowa trumpet, nothing beingin modern Italian scores as toequivalent Clarinetto,employedand terms such as Clarone are not mentioned at all.The idea of the work was to includeoriginal present simplyterms and but that fororchestral as it was obviousinstruments,the of a translations of indica-understanding full-score,propertions of and were ...