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 itemised in the appendices. 224 pages.
Featured Areas include:
- Performance practices (ad lib, belt, doit, staccato, zart)
- Instruments (afoxé, drum machine, virtual instrument, zither)
- Musical styles (acid jazz, EDM, flamenco, plainchant, zydeco)
- Theory (aleatory, chord scale, drop-2, pre-chorus, Z-complement)
- Technology (ADSR, stutter edit, XLR-connector, Yellow book)
- Colloquial usage (A Train ending, groove, hepcat, phat, woodshedding)
- Music business (AFM, copyright, royalties, Variety)
- Notation practices (al segno, lead sheet, chord symbol, guitar tablature, Nashville numbering system, zusammen)
