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The Harvard Dictionary of Music is a standard music reference book published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. The first edition, titled Harvard Dictionary of Music, was published in 1944, and was edited by Willi Apel. The second edition, also edited by Apel, was published in 1969.
Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music and French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century.
Carrying (i.e. 1. generally, sliding in pitch from one note to another, usually pausing just above or below the final pitch, then sliding quickly to that pitch. If no pause is executed, then it is a basic glissando; or 2. in piano music, an articulation between legato and staccato, like portato) portato or louré
Brown was editor of Renaissance Music in Facsimile, published 1977–1982, and was the general editor of several other monument series of musical editions. He contributed prolifically to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He served as president of the American Musicological Society, 1978–80.
Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37501-7. Lang, Paul Henry. 1941. Music in Western Civilization. New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 585ff. Reprinted 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-04074-6. Newman, William S. 1963. The Sonata in the Classic Era. A History of the Sonata Idea 2.
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics, 1989, edited by John Daintith, R. D. Nelson. ISBN 0-14-051119-9. Around 2000 definitions of mathematical terms, plus around 200 short biographies of mathematicians.( Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Mathematics (4 vols) (Rich Farmbrough) Dictionary of Mathematics James and James (Rich Farmbrough)
The text of the 2002 edition can be accessed online via Oxford Music Online, which is also a portal for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. As well as being available to individual and educational subscribers, it is available for use by members of many libraries worldwide. [2]
RILM Music Encyclopedias (RME) is an electronic collection of music reference works from 1775 to the present from Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. RME expands every year by three to five titles.