INTRODUCTION

Its single alphabetical list gives entries for composers, living and dead; for musical works (titles of operas, symphonic poems, etc.); for English and foreign musical terms; for performers and conductors; and for the names of certain well-kno·wn musical institutions (for instance Glyndeboume, Scala). Critics and other writers are not generally entered, unless of course they qualify in another capacity: but an exception is made for those whose catalogues of composers' works have become established in common reference. No musical dictionary could shut out Kochel, for example, from whose name the initial K. has become familiar in the numbering of Mozart's works.