^#smrgSAHAF Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus -

The appearance of the “Polyglot Dictionary of Musical Terms” (“Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus”) brings to its conslusion an undertaking that, for various reasons which need not be enlarged upon here, has taken an unusually lengthy time in preparation. The plan to produce a polyglot dictionary (i.e. a glosary, if possible without definitions) in the five languages German, English, French, Italian and Spanish, as the precursor of a large comprehensive dictionary of this kind in 18 to 20 languagaes, originated in the context of the seventh international musicological congress of the international Muscological Society (Cologne, June, 1958), nearly two decades ago.