musicography

Noun

musicography (uncountable)

1. Writing 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 611
   • 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...1991, Carleton Sprague Smith, editor, Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith
2. (obsolete) The 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, The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 35
   • 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...1843 March, V. D. De Stains, “Phonography: or the writing of sounds”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 19, page 292