English Vocab

Question 1

Abstract

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Summary of a book article

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Anthology

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Representative collection of selected musical or literary works

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Archive

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A place in which public or institutional records are preserved

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Arrangement

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a reworking of a musical composition so that the performing forces are substantially different from the original

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Autograph

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A document written or signed in a person’s own hand

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Catalog

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A list of the contents of a library book collection or group of libraries

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Collate

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To compare minutely in order to determine whether two or more books or manuscripts are identical copies or variants

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Collected Works

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The publication of the entire compositional output of a single composer in a scholarly edition

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Congress Report

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A publication containing the texts of the papers read at a congress or conference

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Copyright

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the right to copy. the legally secured right to reproduce, publish, record, and sell the matter and form of a literary musical or artistic work.

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Discography

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A listing of phonographic records

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Edition

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all the impressions of a literary work printed at any time or times from one setting-up of type

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Engraving

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the process of incising a design, musical composition on a metal plate or the resulting print made from it when the incised lines are inked.

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Facsimile

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an exact reproduction of a manuscript or printed source

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Fair Copy

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a neat copy of a corrected document

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Fascicle

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one of the temporary divisions of a work which is issued in small installments intended to be bound together permanently at a later time.

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Festschrift

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a publication on the occasion of a celebration, or in honor of someone, usually consisting of articles by practicing scholars

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Foliation

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the consecutive numbering of the leaves of a book or manuscript, as opposed to the numbering of the pages

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Folio

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a leaf of a manuscript or book.

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Historical set

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a set of volumes of music of historical significance

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Holograph

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a document wholly in the handwriting of its author.

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Iconography

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the study of the representation of objects by means of images or statues, reliefs, mosaics, paintings.

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Imprint

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the publishers name, often with address and ate of publication, placed at the food of the title page or elsewhere in a book.

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Incipit

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the first few notes or words of text used to identify a musical composition

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ISBN/ISSN

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International standard book number/ International standard serial number. Code numbers in an international identification system first developed in the UK in 1967

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Journal

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a generic term to refer to or sometimes used in the title of a scholarly periodical.

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Lexicon

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a book containing an alphabetical or other systematic arrangement of words and their definitions.

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Magazine

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A periodical containing articles, pictures, reviews, advertisements, often of popular interests.

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Manuscript

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a book, document, musical, composition, letter written by hand.

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Monograph

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a scholarly study treating a single subject or a limited aspect of a subject.

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Monument

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a scholarly edition of the music of one region or country

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Necrology

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a notice of the death of a person; obituary

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opus

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a creative work, usaully a composition to which a number is assigned by a composer or publisher to indicate its order in a composers written and or published output.

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Proceedings

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a published report of a conference or meeting of a society or congress

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Pseudonym

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pen name

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recto

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the side of a folio that is to be read first

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reprint edition

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a later edition of a work that ordinarily is no longer in print

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review

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a writing which gives a critical assessment of something

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Revised edition

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an edition of a work incorporating major revisions by the author or an editor and often supplementary matter designed to bring it up to date.

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serial

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any publication usually appearing at regular intervals including periodicals, annuals, newspapers, proceedings.

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Siglum

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a letter or letters with or without numbers used to identify a manuscript or printed source, library, or archived.

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Thematic Catalog

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a list or index of compositions, usually by a single composer rather than a collection or repertory of music in which each composition or movement is identified by an incipit.

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Transcription

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the transliteration of an early work into modern musical notation

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treatise

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a learned, formal writing on a subject usually in book form

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union catalog

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a library catalog listing the holdings of a group of cooperating libraries.

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Urtext

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original text

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verso

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the side of a folio that is to be read second

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watermark

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a manufacturer’s identifying mark or design embedded in a sheet of paper resulting from different thicknesses in the paper and visible when held up to light.