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Dictionary Of Music, 1896
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15. At one point the work is not consistent with itself. In several of the small works now before the public, long lists of terms are found beginning with the German article die, a principle of lexicography as false as would be the inclusion of a series of phrases in an English dictionary beginning with "the". Accordingly these have been relegated to their proper places, under their leading terms. In other cases, however, entire phrases have been included under their leading word, such as those beginning with Allegro, Andante, etc., because these combinations are of constant occurrence, and the complex term possesses an individual significance which is not in all cases exactly the same as the sum of its elements.
36. A large amount of editing has been devoted to rectifying the faulty phraseology of former definitions. We cannot hope to have fully succeeded at this point. Careless habits of speech (and of thought as well) retain in colloquial use such erroneous expressions as "note" for tone, "bar" for measure, "time" for measure, "tone" and "semitone" as names of interval, and the like, until scientific musicians pass over such expressions without noticing their defective and misleading form. It is altogether likely that many such examples still remain in the present volume, despite the care that has been taken to remove them.
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