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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Transcription \Tran*scrip"tion\ (tr[a^]n*skr[i^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.] 1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions. 2. A copy; a transcript. --Walton. 3. (Mus.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it as Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: transcription n 1: something written, esp. copied from one medium to another, as a typed version of shorthand notes [syn: {written text}] 2: a recording; eg from broadcast to tape
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