Meanings
- uncountableWriting on the subject of music.
The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant.
1919, Phillips Barry, “Greek Music”, in The Musical quarterly, volume 5, page 6112 more examples
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.
1991, Carleton Sprague Smith, editor, Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague SmithWe 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.
1997, Paul Henry Lang, Musicology and Performance, page 60 - obsoleteuncountableThe art or science of writing music and of musical notation.
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.
1842 October 28, The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 352 more examples
This work is divided into two parts, logography, or universal writing of speech, and musicography, or symbolical writing in music; the first of which offers a new set of phonetic characters as a substitute for our degenerated logographic system, and the second a reformation of our musical notation; a short-hand form of each system being joined to it.
1843 March 28, V. D. De Stains, “Phonography: or the writing of sounds”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 19, page 292There are continually springing up, however, advocates of new systems of musicography the adoption of which would reduce all our musical heir-looms to the level of waste paper, and most existing musical science and skill to the level of those of these advocates; for it is remarkable that no scheme for the reformation of musicography has ever been proposed by any person of acknowledged musical science or skill.
1867 March 29, Journal of the Society of Arts, page 292
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