Ever read a CD review and think, “What the hell does that mean?” We do. Sometimes readers need a cheat sheet to decipher the terms critics use, so we thought we’d start a Critics Dictionary. Here goes ...

This dictionary was prepared primarily for use by personnel in WOI Radio at Iowa State University as a computerized database for printing "pronouncers" to be pasted alongside the words to be ...

Stanley Sadie, a musicologist, critic, editor and Mozart authority, whose comprehensive revamping of a music encyclopedia resulted in the monolithic New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, died ...