Discography?!


Question:

Discography?

i wonder why they call the compilation of an artist's work a 'discography' i wonder where it originated.. could it be that back then they have LP's and its a disc? please someone enlighted me... thnx!


Answers:

Yes

Discography stems from:

(1) the gramophone record, often called a "disc", the dominant commercial medium of sound recording for most of the 20th century
(2) the -graph suffix signifying something written (see also autobiography, graphology and so on).




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