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Title: Music Notation and Terminology

Author: Karl W. Gehrkens

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MUSIC NOTATION AND TERMINOLOGY

by

KARL W. GEHRKENS, A.M.

Associate Professor of School Music
Oberlin Conservatory of Music

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The A. S. Barnes Company
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Copyright, 1914, by
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PREFACE

The study of _music notation and terminology_ by classes in
conservatories and in music departments of colleges and normal schools
is a comparative innovation, one reason for the non-existence of such
courses in the past being the lack of a suitable text-book, in which
might be found in related groups clear and accurate definitions of the
really essential terms. But with the constantly increasing interest in
music study (both private and in the public schools), and with the
pr