Tran*scrip"tion (?), 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 composes 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, Listzt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
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