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"We have tested the new edition on subject after subject, and always it has supplied the point sought. Best of all, it is informed with the spirit which Grove insisted upon at the start. It tells the reader what he wants to know, and on every page it arrests him with writing that is good to read. If the 'Dictionary' is instructive, it is also one of the most fascinating of books."—The Tribune (New York).
"Assuming that the remaining volumes will represent the same standard of musical scholarship and will contain similar results of careful and accurate labor, it will not be premature to announce—and this, too, without any disrespect to the memory of Sir George Grove as a scholar—that at last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope."—The Dial (Chicago).
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
The spellings for the names Scriabine and Strawinsky have been retained as they appeared in the original book.