An encyclopaedia, or dictionary of music

In which not only every technical word is explained, the formation of every species of composition 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

The whole compiled from the most celebrated foreign and English authorities. Interspersed with observations critical and explanatory most celebrated foreign and english authorities. Interspersed with observations critical and explanatory. By J. F. Danneley, professor of music