Finding Print Bilingual Dictionaries
The Heilbrun Music and Media Library maintains a collection of bilingual dictionaries for languages frequently encountered by music researchers. Look for them in the Reference section under call numbers beginning with P.
Woodruff Library maintains a large collection of dictionaries for many languages in the Reference Section on the entry level and in the stacks.
Sample catalog searches for dictionaries:
This Subject search: SPANISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES—ENGLISH
will find Spanish-English dictionaries.
This Subject search: SPANISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
will find Spanish–Spanish dictionaries.
Dictionaries of Musical Terms
Musical Terminology by
Do you need to know the Italian musical term for dying away? This new conspectus lists Estinguendo, Deficiendo, Diluendo, Mancando, Morendo, Perdendosi, Smorzando, Sperdendosi, and Spirante. This collection of terms most frequently found in music, with counterparts in four languages, derived its definitions and equivalents using The Harvard Dictionary of Music, Baker's Dictionary of Musical Terms, Elson's Dictionary of Musical Terms, The Oxford Companion to Music, and Grove's Dictonary of Music and Musicians. The languages dictionaries used for verification were Cassel's, Garzanti, Langenscheidt, and Palazzi. The terms were selected as being not only the most important to today's musicians, but those that appear most frequently and are most commonly used. The format consists of four columns with the term in its original language followed by the three other equivalents.
Call Number: Music & Media ML108 .B55 1999ISBN: 9781576470152Publication Date: 1999-01-15
Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus by Call Number: Music & Media ML108 .T4ISBN: 9630512769Publication Date: 1978-01-01
