Cosmo Dictionary of Musical Terms

The Editors hope, that from practical experience and knowledge, they have succeeded in collecting the chief musical terms met with in scientific, theoretical, and practical treatises, and in the more common annotated programs and newspaper criticisms. That every subject should be treated in an exhaustive manner, would be, of course, impossible; but the Editors have endeavored to give sufficiently true outlines of matters of fact to inform the amateur correctly, and intimate to the musical student the results to which his own reading will probably tend.