Music Glossary

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Adrian Mariano

Italian glossary,

Bjoern Jacke

German glossary,

Christian Mondrup

Original author of LilyPond glossary, Danish glossary,

David González

Spanish glossary,

François Pinard

Original glossary of GNU music project, French glossary,

Han-Wen Nienhuys

Dutch glossary,

Heikki Junes

Finnish glossary translations,

Jan Nieuwenhuizen

Dutch glossary,

Kurtis Kroon

English glossary,

Mats Bengtsson

Swedish glossary,

Neil Jerram

English glossary translations.


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Music Glossary