Music Abbreviations

Donald L. Hixon is Fine Arts Librarian Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

• Part 1 PrefaceChapter 2 General AbbreviationsPart 3 The DictionaryPart 4 The Reverse DictionaryPart 5 About the Author

This work is presented in two parts: a Dictionary of 3,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms for musical terms, monograph and serial titles, academic degrees, record labels, music software and computer programs, organizations, performing groups, music facsimiles and manuscripts, notation conventions, and chant designations....The Reverse Dictionary follows, with full information for every term in the Dictionary, but with additional cross-reference entries for forms in other languages, title histories of journals, variant names for organizations, etc. All foreign-language entities are found in the Dictionary under the English form of the name; cross-references in all languages to the English form are contained in the Reverse Dictionary. Very useful for both the specialist and novice user.