musicography

Example Sentences

• "The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant."
• "Other now standard histories of music in Latin American nations that skirt developments after 1820, 1901, or 1950 emphasize an ever-present problem in Latin American musicography. The only histories of music in their nations with which reigning Latin American composers are pleased are those narrated by themselves."
• "We may jump a century and a quarter in English musicography but will find that with a very few exceptions the romantic effusion deepened while scholarship lessened, both of them considerably."
• "The short-hand of musicography alone, separated from the material accompanying it, might, we think, be found useful in no ordinary degree to the musical world."
• "This work is divided into two parts, logography, or universal writing of speech, and musicography, or symbolical writing in music; the first of which offers a new set of phonetic characters as a substitute for our degenerated logographic system, and the second a reformation of our musical notation; a short-hand form of each system being joined to it."
• "There are continually springing up, however, advocates of new systems of musicography the adoption of which would reduce all our musical heir-looms to the level of waste paper, and most existing musical science and skill to the level of those of these advocates; for it is remarkable that no scheme for the reformation of musicography has ever been proposed by any person of acknowledged musical science or skill."