Musicography

Quick meaning: Musicography is a noun meaning Writing on the subject of music.

Meaning

Writing on the subject of music.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) The art or science of writing music and of musical notation.

Example Sentences

The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant.

The short-hand of musicography alone, separated from the material accompanying it, might, we think, be found useful in no ordinary degree to the musical world.

We may jump a century and a quarter in English musicography but will find that with a very few exceptions the romantic effusion deepened while scholarship lessened, both of them considerably.

Other now standard histories of music in Latin American nations that skirt developments after 1820, 1901, or 1950 emphasize an ever-present problem in Latin American musicography. The only histories of music in their nations with which reigning Latin American composers are pleased are those narrated by themselves.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include musicmaking, musicology, hymnography, musicophilia, musicologist, librettistics.

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