This handy guide has been expanded and adapted to cover all facets of music to meet the changing needs of today's musician. All of the latest musical terms, musical instruments, and performers have been added to this edition.

Excerpt from A Pronouncing Pocket-Manual of Musical Terms, Together With the Elements of Notation and Condensed Biographies of Noteworthy Musicians Notation is a system of signs used in writing music. The written signs for the time-value (length, duration) of musical tones, are called Notes; the written signs for pauses (intervals of silence) between the tones, are called Rests. The Staff The Staff consists of five parallel horizontal lines. Notes are written on the lines, or in the spaces between. For higher or lower tones, additional short lines are provided, called Leger-lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.