A comprehensive reference to terms used in the performance creation and study of music today. Covering instrumental and voice performance audio technology production music business and other dimensions of the modern music industry its 3 400 entries include many terms that are common among practicing musicians but are found in no other dictionary.At the same time it incorporates traditional terminology from early music to the present and across diverse cultures as well as clarifying customary instrumental abbreviations and foreign language terms. Comprehensive lists of scales and chord symbol suffixes are itemized in the appendices.
