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The new encyclopedia of music and musicians, 1929
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1DANCING. Writing on this subject began in the 16th century and became frequent during the 17–18th centuries. Most of the books treat more of dancing as an art than of music in connection with it. They include works by Jacques Bonnet, 1723; L. de Cahusac, 1754 (La Danse); Noverre, 1760; Castil-Blaze, 1832; C. Compan, 1787–1802, and F. Fertiault, 1854 (both Hist. de la Danse); Czerwinski, 1862–79; F. L. Schubert, 1867, and O. Umgewitter, 1868 (both Die Tanzmusik); F. M. Böhme, 1886; Kidson, 1889 (old English); Desrat, 1896 (Dict. de Danse); H. de Soria, 1897 (Hist. Pittoresque de la Danse); G. Vuillier, 1897 (La Danse); P. Gavina, 1898 (Il Ballo); Storck, 1903; Ménil, 1904; Bie, 1906–20; Jaques-Dalcroze, 1907–21; B. Weigl, 1910; Prunières, 1914; Caroline Walker, 1915 (The Modern Dances); Narodny, 1917; etc.
3DEGREES IN MUSIC. See C. F. A. Williams, 1893 (in Oxford and Cambridge).
5DICTATION. The importance of this was recognized from the beginning of interest in school-music (as by Nägeli, 1810) and provided for in various systems of class-instruction (as by Plüger, 1853, and Dessirier, 1869), but its separate treatment is recent. Works by H. Götze, 1882; Lavignac, 1882; H. Riemann, 1889; F. L. Ritter, 1890?; R. Johne, 1900 (Musikdiktat); Sekles, 1905; Gédalge, 1922; etc.
7DICTIONARIES. The first compendium of terms only was that of Tinctoris, 1474. Among more modern works are those of Janowka, 1701; Brossard, 1703; Grassineau, 1740; Barnickel, 1749; Rousseau, 1767; Busby, 1786; G. F. Wolf, 1787; Meude-Monpas, 1788; the musical division of the Encyclopédie Ménagère (vol. i, 1791, by Framery and Ginguené, vol. ii, 1818, by Momigny); Reijnvaan, 1795; Gianelli, 1801; H. C. Koch, 1802–07; Castil-Blaze, 1821; Lichtenthal, 1826; Jousse, 1829; M. and L. Escudier, 1844; Dommer, 1865; Stainer and Barrett, 1876; Niecks, 1884; T. Baker, 1895; L. C. Elson, 1909; Duncan, 1913; etc., besides more or less important definitions and descriptions in every large general dictionary and encyclopedia. See also Gehrken's Music Notation and Terminology, 1914.
9Among dictionaries of persons only are to be named those of Gerber, 1790–92, 1812–14; Choron and Fayolle, 1810–11, and, with Lefage, 1836–38; Fétis, 1835–44; J. D. Brown, 1886; Champlin and Apthorp, 1888–90; T. Baker, 1900 (3d ed. by Remy, 1919); Eitner, 1900–04; Saerchinger, 1918; etc. Works confined more or less to particular countries include F. J. Lipowsky, 1811 (Bavaria); Dlabacz, 1815 (Bohemia); Kossmaly, 1846–47 (Silesia); Wurzbach, 1855–61 (Austria); Sowinski, 1857–74 (Poland); Ledebur, 1860–61 (Berlin); Vasconcellos, 1870 (Portugal); Viotta, 1889 (Holland); Melchior, 1889 (Holland); Pedrell, 1894–97 (Spain); Crowest, 1895; Brown and Stratton, 1897 (Great Britain); Vieira, 1900 (Portugal); Ruiz de Lihory, 1904 (Valencia); W. Neumann, 1909 (Baltic Provinces); A. de Angelis, 1918 (Italy); etc. See also the many great general dictionaries of national biography (including the various manuals known as Who's Who and the like), many general encyclopedias and dictionaries of fine art.
11The greater dictionaries of both terms and persons include the pioneer work of J. G. Walther, 1732; with Gianelli, 1822; Gathy, 1835; Schilling, 1835–38; Gassner, 1849; J. W. Moore, 1854; Bernsdorf, 1856–65; Gollmick, 1858; Mendel, 1870–83; Paul, 1873; Grove, 1879–89; Reissmann, 1882; Riemann, 1882 (translations or adaptations in English, French, Danish and Russian); F. C. Jones, 1889; Norlind, 1916; besides works containing both history and lexicography, like Lavignac's Encyclopédie (from 1913) and D. G. Mason's The Art of Music (1914–17).
13For persons before 1800 Eitner's unique Quellen-Lexikon, 1900–04 (with the Monatshefte that preceded it and the extensions that have followed) is invaluable. Among other works the place of eminence is probably held by Fétis' Biographie Universelle, 2d ed. 1860–65 (with Supplément by Pougin, 1878–80), Mendel's Konversations-Lexikon (completed by Reissmann, 1883), Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. 1904–10 (with American Supplement, 1920) and Riemann's Musiklexikon, 10th ed. 1922. Of these, the last is in many ways the most remarkable.
15In addition, there are special dictionaries in the fields of church-music, liturgics, hymnody, dramatic music, dancing, etc., with summary lists of singers, pianists, organists, violinists, music-publishers, violin-makers, etc., besides numerous comprehensive studies in biography that are not in dictionary-form.
17DUALISM, HARMONIC. Works by Hauptmann, 1853 (2d ed. 1873); Oettingen, 1866 (2d ed. 1913); H. Riemann, 1887 (6th ed. 1912), 1890 (5th ed. 1914), 1893, 1905; Ergo, 1891; Capellen, 1901, contra (in Neue Zeitschrift); Münnich, 1909 (in the Riemann Festschrift); K. Stumpf, 1911–12.
19EMBELLISHMENTS. Works by E. D. Wagner, 1869; Ziehn, 1883; E. G. Dannreuther, 1893–95; A. H. Ehrlich, 1896; J. L. Farrenc, 1897; Seiffert, 1899–1901; Fr. Kuhlo, 1896 (Ueber melod. Verzierungen); M. Kuhn, 1902 (Die Verzierungskunst in d. Gesangsmusik d. 16–17. Jahrh.); H. Goldschmidt, 1907; Beyschlag, 1908; Lach, 1913 (of general scope). Among pedagogical manuals note those by L. Klee and Zwintscher. To the list of 18th-century authorities given by Baker perhaps there might be added Quantz, 1752, K. P. E. Bach, 1753–62, J. A. Hiller, 1780, and Tartini, 1782.
21ETHNIC MUSIC. Works by K. Engel, 1864–83; Comettant, 1869; Al. Kraus, 1878–1901 (partly on Japan); A. J. Ellis, 1885; K. Stumpf, 1886–1911; C. R. Day, 1891 (on India); K. Hagen, 1892 (Ueber die Musik einiger Naturvölker); Wallaschek, 1893; Galli, 1898; L. Riemann, 1899; B. Ankermann, 1901 (Die afrikan. Musikinstrumente); O. Abraham and Hornbostel, 1903–09; Galpin, 1903–10; Tiersot, 1905–10;
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