Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (Hughes, Rupert)

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Publisher. Info. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
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Work Title Music Lovers' Cyclopedia
Alternative. Title Music lovers cyclopedia, containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, &c., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages; many charts; an explanation of the construction of music for the uninitiated; a pronouncing biographical dictionary; the stories of the operas; and numerous biographical and critical essays by distinguished authorities
Composer Hughes, Rupert
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IRH 1
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 main parts
First Publication. 1912 – New York: Doubleday, Page & Company
Copyright Information Possibly public domain in EU and other 70 pma territories.
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Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century

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an earlier version, under a different title, was published in 1903.

The book contains a dictionary of terms and articles including contributions by Louis Charles Elson, Henry Edward Krehbiel, Ernest Newman, Gustave Kobbé, W.J. Henderson, Alfred John Goodrich, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, James Huneker, August Spanuth, Henry Theophilus Finck, Edward E. Ziegler, Vernon Blackburn, John F. Runciman, E. Irænus Prime-Stevenson, John South Shedlock, Homer Albert Norris, and others.