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Hamilton's celebrated Dictionary : comprising an explanation of 3,500 Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms, phrases and abbreviations, also a copious list of musical characters... with an appendix, consisting of a reprint of John Tinctor's "Terminorum musicae diffinitorium", the first musical dictionary known

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Title: Hamilton's celebrated Dictionary : comprising an explanation of 3,500 Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms, phrases and abbreviations, also a copious list of musical characters... with an appendix, consisting of a reprint of John Tinctor's "Terminorum musicae diffinitorium", the first musical dictionary known

Other titles: Dictionary

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Music/b/HAM

Creator(s): Hamiton, James Alexander (1785-1845)

Additional creator(s): Bishop, John (1817-1890) (Other); Tinctoris, Johannes (1511) (Other)

Related people: Bishop, John; Tinctoris, Johannes

Publisher: Robert Cocks

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1849?]

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 173p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/305612

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005002889705181

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Dated 1849, p.viii.


"Advertisement to the thirty-second edition": p. [v]. Edition statement on covers: ninety-fifth edition.


Publisher's music list, followed by 'Pianoforte compositions by W. Vincent Wallace', at end [11 pp.]; in this issue, the first advertisement (verso of p.173) is for Cocks' 'Pianoforte warehouses'.

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In original paper wrappers

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