Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Academy
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Academy. A society of persons united for the purpose of improvement in the art of music, or any art or science. Musical academies were frequent in most parts of Europe, but particularly in France and Italy, long since ; and associations under the name of Musical Conventions, and Teachers' Classes, Institutes, Normal Schools, &c., pre now becoming numerous in this country.
