Musicography

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Writing on the subject of music. uncountable

    "The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant."

  2. 2
    The art or science of writing music and of musical notation. obsolete, uncountable

    "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."

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harmonymusicmusicalitytheory

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"The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant."

Etymology

From music + -o- + -graphy.

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