A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms
- Author
- Frederick Niecks
- Publisher
- Augener & Co.
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1884
- Extent
- compact reference dictionary
- Language
- English
- Type
- Music terminology / reference
SCOPE & CONTENT
Published in London in 1884, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research role, while keeping the physical document unchanged.
RESEARCH VALUE
For present-day research, A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms is most useful when read simultaneously as a source on its stated subject and as evidence of the assumptions of its own period. Terminology, canon formation and critical judgements may reflect early twentieth-century or late nineteenth-century priorities; these features are therefore documented rather than silently modernized. Search aliases include common shortened forms of both title and author so that the record remains discoverable even when a PDF filename is incomplete.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The record identifies the historical edition at title-author-publisher-place-year level and preserves the stated physical extent where it can be established. The work is classified as music terminology / reference, allowing it to be retrieved both by person and by subject rather than depending on the attachment filename alone.
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL USE
The dossier distinguishes historical evidence from current scholarly consensus. Older terminology and aesthetic judgements are retained as attributes of the source, while the catalogue note explicitly encourages comparison with later critical editions, archival studies and modern scholarship.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields