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Discography

Discography The study of sound recordings, more particularly of disc recordings; it is equivalent to bibliography and like that science it has several subdivisions. Descriptive bibliography is the study of books as objects: how they are printed, bound, illustrated, and so on. In discography this approach is concerned with the physical aspects of a recording, including the sound signals it carries. A comprehensive description of a disc recording, for example, would include attention to its…

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