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Click on the letter that matches the word you want to locate. After that file appears, scroll to the word you want. Underlined words or names are linked to a web site. If there are icons under the term, here's what they mean: There is a simple photo only of the defined object. You will find no other information. You can hear an audio sample of the defined term. Most are only short examples. This button will link to a site on the World Wide Web that focuses on the defined term. This button links to something humorous about the term.

When you take a link to the World Wide Web, use the "BACK" button to return.

 

WARNING:

Some sound files take a while to download. Be patient! Depending upon the activity on the

Internet at the time, you may wait as long as 3 minutes for a file to download.

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The author respectfully acknowledges consulting the 1986 printing of the New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Michael Randel, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book remains a major desk reference of music educators and musicians throughout the world.