Googlebooks has digitized an enormous number of PD works into PDF files
available free for downloading. These PDF files are merely graphical
images of the pages, so they aren't searchable. It isn't like the
Project Gutenberg books which are captured using OCR technology so the
files are actual text and thus are searchable.
Go to http://books.google.com and enter Music in the search bar and
you'll be amazed at how many music books have already been digitized.
enter Music Dictionary and you'll find several which you can download
and keep on your desktop for quick access. Click Full View radio button
to see a list containing only books which are possible to view in their
entirety. Many of these are available for download, others aren't. I'm
not sure what determines this ability, since some of the clearly PD
works aren't available for download.
Interestingly enough, even though the PDF files aren't searchable on
your computer, GoogleBooks highlights your search term in each book it
has listed, so Google can search them!
Here is a link directly to Elson's Music Dictionary, which is
downloadable (10MB PDF file):
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00824908&id=f10NAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1&lpg=RA1-PA1&dq=Music+Dictionary
Here is the link to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and
Musicians (1915 edition):
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00752566&id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA238&lpg=RA1-PA238&dq=Music+Dictionary&as_brr=1
This is a veritable goldmine of historical books of and about music.
The search term "Music Dictionary" combined with the "Full View Books"
radio button selected returns 1282 hits! The more general search term
"music" returns 28,440!!! And many of these are downloadable and are
works that I, for one, have only read about but never had a chance to
actually see, let alone own a copy of.
Project Gutenberg has these works (in html or pdf format):
Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Gehrkins:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19499
PG has some other music books (just enter "music" in the search panel of
the home page at http://www.gutenberg.org and see what turns up) but not
many yet.
Hope this helps!
David H. Bailey
Brennon Bortz wrote:
Martin,
I'd use something like Shirmer's musical terms dictionary (ISBN:
0911318151), etc. I'm sure there's also a similar text going from
German to English, Italian, French, etc. Books of this type will be
filed at the library under music dictionaries. For what it's worth, the
Library of Congress call number for such books is ML 108. This might be
helpful when running a WorldCat search for this type of text.
HTH,
Brennon
On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Martin Gieseking wrote:
I'm an user of the german version of finale (2006c WinXP). Sometimes
I have
difficulties in following our discussions, because I don't know the
translations of specific termini used in finale. Maybe this small folder
everybody gets with a new finale-cd or -update could help me. Does
anybody
know a source for it to download, as pdf or similar? Or has anybody
already
made a list of english/german expressions?
Hello Oliver,
there is a detailed glossary about musical terms available on the
LilyPond website:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation
Maybe this is something you're looking for.
Martin
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