Excerpts from: A Musical Dictionary - Grassineau, James c. 1715-1769 (London J. Wilcox, 1740)
From a copy in the collection of Early Music Facsimiles
A Musical Dictionary, being a collection of terms and characters, as well ancient as modern; including the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music ... The whole carefully abstracted from the best authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English languages.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Dictionary