Definition of discography
discographies
1 : a descriptive list of recordings by category, composer, performer, or date of release an Elvis Presley discography
2 : the history of recorded music
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Others, myself included, would have preferred to see the exhaustive lists of personnel and repertoire confined to a discography.
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Mr. Lewiston’s discography includes dozens of records.
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Traversing the whole of Muse’s discography (including some five tracks from their new album), this tour didn’t feature the drones or 360 stage of the 2015 world tour.
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Discography: Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (’94, McCartney Productions Limited, distributed by Capitol in the US); Rushes (’98, Capitol); Electric Arguments (’08, ATO Records).
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Origin and Etymology of discography
French discographie, from disc- + -graphie -graphy
First Known Use: 1932
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