Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Classical Music [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Publishing, Helicon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic books. -- local.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Music--Dictionaries.

Local Subjects:

Electronic books. -- local.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Music--Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Helicon Publishing, 2005.

Summary:

Quick and easy reference to classical music.

Contents:

Intro

The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Classical Music

Preface

Table of contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Z

Abbado, Claudio (1933- )

a cappella

(Italian 'in the style of the chapel')

accordion

acoustic

Adam, Adolphe Charles (1803-1856)

Adams, John Coolidge (1947- )

ad lib(itum)

(Latin 'freely')

Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969)

Aeolian harp

Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)

Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751)

Aldeburgh Festival

aleatory music

(Latin alea 'dice')

allegro

(Italian 'merry, lively')

alphorn

alto

(Italian 'high')

Ambrosian chant

andante

(Italian 'going, walking')

Anderson, Marian (1902-1993)

Antheil, George (1900-1959)

anthem

antiphony

arco

(Italian 'with the bow')

aria

(Italian 'air')

Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710-1778)

Arnold, Malcolm Henry (1921- )

arpeggio

(Italian 'like a harp')

arranger

Arrau, Claudio (1903-1991)

Ashkenazy, Vladimir (1937- )

atonality

Auber, Daniel François Esprit (1782-1871)

'Auld Lang Syne'

Auric, Georges (1899-1983)

authenticity

Babbitt, Milton (Byron) (1916- )

Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel (1714-1788)

Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)

Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784)

bagatelle

(French 'trifle')

bagpipes

Baillie, Isobel (1895-1983)

Baker, Janet Abbott (1933- )

Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich (1837-1910)

balalaika

ballade

ballet

(Italian balletto 'a little dance')

banjo

bar

Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)

barbershop

Barbirolli, John (Giovanni Battista) (1899-1970)

bard

Barenboim, Daniel (1942- )

baritone

barrel organ

Bartók, Béla (1881-1945).

baryton

bass

basset horn

bassoon

Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor (1883-1953)

Bayreuth

beat frequency

Beecham, Thomas (1879-1961)

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)

bel canto

(Italian 'beautiful song')

bell

Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835)

Bennett, Richard Rodney (1936- )

Berg, Alban (1885-1935)

Berio, Luciano (1925-2003)

Berlin, Irving (1888-1989)

adopted name of Israel Baline,

Berlioz, (Louis) Hector (1803-1869)

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)

binary form

Birtwistle, Harrison (1934- )

Bizet, Georges (Alexandre César Léopold) (1838-1875)

Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond (1891-1975)

Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)

Blow, John (1648-1708)

bolero

Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich (1833-1887)

Boulanger, Lili (Juliette Marie Olga) (1893-1918)

Boulanger, Nadia Juliette (1887-1979)

Boulez, Pierre (1925- )

Bowles, Paul (1910-1999)

Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)

brass instrument

Bream, Julian Alexander (1933- )

Britten, (Edward) Benjamin, Baron Britten (1913-1976)

Brown, Earle (Appleton) (1926-2002)

Bruckner, (Josef) Anton (1824-1896)

bugle

bullroarer

or whizzer or whizzing stick or lightning stick,

Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Benvenuto (1866-1924)

Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)

Byrd, William (1543-1623)

Cage, John (1912-1992)

Callas, Maria (1923-1977)

adopted name of Maria Kalogeropoulos,

cancan

canon

cantata

cantometrics

cantor

Hebrew chazan,

(Latin cantare, 'to sing')

capriccio

(Italian 'caprice')

Carmina Burana

carol

Carreras, José Maria (1947- )

Carter, Elliott Cook (1908- )

Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921)

Casals, Pablo (Pau) (1876-1973)

castanets

castrato

(Italian, 'castrated')

Cavalli, (Pietro) Francesco (1602-1676)

cavatina.

Cecilia, St (lived 2nd or 3rd century AD)

celesta

cello

cembalo

chamber music

chanson

chant

Chávez, Carlos Antonio de Padua (1899-1978)

Cherubini, Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) (1760-1842)

Chin, Unsuk (1961- )

choir

Chopin, Frédéric François (1810-1849)

chord

chromatic scale

cimbalom

cithara

clarinet

clavichord

clavier

(German Klavier)

clef

Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832)

cluster

coda

(Italian 'tail')

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875-1912)

coloratura

concertina

concert master

concerto

concrete music

conductor

continuo

(Italian, basso continuo 'continuous bass')

contrabassoon

contralto

contrapuntal

Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)

cor anglais

or English horn,

Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)

cornet

cornett

counterpoint

countertenor

Couperin, François le Grand (1668-1733)

cymbal

Dahlhaus, Carl (1928-1989)

Dalcroze, Emile Jaques-

Dallapiccola, Luigi (1904-1975)

dance of death

(German Totentanz

French danse macabre)

dastgah

Davies, Peter Maxwell (1934- )

D.C.

Debussy, (Achille-) Claude (1862-1918)

de Falla, Manuel

Delibes, (Clément Philibert) Léo (1836-1891)

Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934)

Desprez, Josquin

Dessau, Paul (1894-1979)

development

dhrupad

(Hindi 'fixed verse')

Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (1872-1929)

diatonic scale

diatonic

didgeridoo

or didjeridu,

dirge

(Latin Dirige Domine, from the Office for the Dead, a funeral psalm.)

djembe

DMus

dodecaphony

Dohnányi, Ernst (Ernö) von (1877-1960)

dominant

Domingo, Placido (1941- )

Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria) (1797-1848)

double bass

Dowland, John (c. 1563-c. 1626)

D'Oyly Carte, Richard (1844-1901).

drone

drum

Dufay, Guillaume (c. 1400-1474)

Dukas, Paul Abraham (1865-1935)

dulcimer

Du Pré, Jacqueline Mary (1945-1987)

Dutilleux, Henri (1916- )

Dvorák, Antonín Leopold (1841-1904)

dynamics

electronic music

Elgar, Edward (William) (1857-1934)

encore

(French 'again')

English horn

enharmonic

étude

(French 'study')

euphonium

eurhythmics

exposition

expressionism

Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)

born Manuel Maria de Falla y Matheu,

falsetto

fantasia

or fantasy or phantasy or fancy,

Fauré, Gabriel (Urbain) (1845-1924)

Feldman, Morton (1926-1987)

Ferrier, Kathleen Mary (1912-1953)

fife

(German pfeife)

film score

Fischer-Dieskau, (Albert) Dietrich (1925- )

flamenco

flat

symbol b,

flugelhorn

flute

or transverse flute,

folk music

fortepiano

Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864)

Franck, César Auguste (1822-1890)

French horn

Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)

fugue

(Latin 'flight'

Italian 'chase')

full score

fundamental

Furtwängler, (Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin) Wilhelm (1886-1954)

Gabrieli, Giovanni (c. 1555-1612)

gagaku

galliard

Galway, James (1939- )

gamelan

gat

(Hindi 'movement', 'action')

gavotte

Gershwin, George (1898-1937)

born Jacob Gershvin,

Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625)

Glass, Philip (1937- )

Glennie, Evelyn (1965- )

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)

glockenspiel

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (1714-1787)

Glyndebourne

God Save the King/Queen

Goodman, Benny (1909-1986)

Gounod, Charles François (1818-1893)

grand opera

graph notation

Gregorian chant

Gresham, Thomas (c. 1519-1579)

Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)

guitar

Haitink, Bernard (1929- ).

Hamilton, Iain Ellis (1922-2000)

Hammerstein, Oscar, II (1895-1960)

Hammond organ

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)

born Georg Friedrich Händel,

harmonics

harmonium

harmony

harp

harpsichord

Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)

Heifetz, Jascha (1901-1987)

Henze, Hans Werner (1926- )

Herrmann, Bernard (1911-1975)

Heseltine, Philip (Arnold)

Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)

Hoffmann, Amadeus (Ernst Theodor Wilhelm) (1776-1822)

Holst, Gustav(us Theodore von) (1874-1934)

homophony

Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955)

horn

Horowitz, Vladimir (1904-1989)

Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)

hurdy-gurdy

hymn

impromptu

Indian music

intermezzo

Internationale

interval

inversion

Ireland, John Nicholson (1879-1962)

Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636)

isorhythm

Ives, Charles Edward (1874-1954)

Janácek, Leoš (1854-1928)

Janequin, Clément (c. 1472-c. 1560)

Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile (1865-1950)

jazz

Jew's harp

Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907)

Josephs, Wilfred (1927-1997)

Josquin Des Prez (or Josquin des Prés) (1440-1521)

Kabuki

Karajan, Herbert von (1908-1989)

kazoo

kemence

Kennedy, Nigel Paul (1956- )

key

keyboard

Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich (1903-1978)

Khan, Vilayat (1928-2004)

khyal

(Hindi 'thought', 'idea')

Klemperer, Otto (1885-1973)

Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)

kora

koto

Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)

Krenek, Ernst (1900-1991)

kriti

(Telugu 'work', 'composition')

Kyrie Eleison

Lalo, (Victor Antoine) Edouard (1823-1892)

ländler

Lehár, Franz (1870-1948)

leitmotif

German Leitmotiv,

(German 'leading motive')

Lenya, Lotte (1898-1981)

adopted name of Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer,

Leoncavallo, Ruggero (1858-1919)

Les Six

(French 'The Six').

libretto.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-73156-7

9786610731565