In this contribution I review some recent developments in light quark spectroscopy, from a somewhat theoretical viewpoint. I concentrate almost exclusively on lightmesons, since this area of hadron physics has seen the greatest share of recent advances. In theory I will discuss recent LGT results for hybrid meson masses, hybrid decay calculations and conventional quarkonium decay calculations. In experiment I review new or recent candidates for higher quarkonium states (the new experimental hybrid candidates are reviewed by other contributers in these proceedings), and then discuss an interesting miscellany in &ggr;&ggr; physics,K1mixing angles,KK¯molecules andDsdecays. ©1998 American Institute of Physics.