Writing About Music

<p><strong>Preface to The Fourth Edition</strong></p> <p>Purpose of the Fourth Edition</p> <p>Changes in the Fourth Edition</p> <p>Other Resources</p> <p>How to Use This Book</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 1. Writing about Music</strong></p> <p>Why We Write about Music</p> <p>The Special Challenges of Writing about Music</p> <p>Inappropriate Ways to Write about Music</p> <p>Musicological Research and Writing</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 2. Analysis and Research</strong></p> <p>Analysis</p> <p>Questions to Consider</p> <p>Examples of Works and Research Directions</p> <p> Carlo Gesualdo: “Moro, lasso”</p> <p> J. S. Bach: Opening Chorus of Cantata No. 80, Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott</p> <p> W. A. Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor, K. 491, First Movement</p> <p> Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, Act I, Scene 3</p> <p> Franz Liszt: “Faust” Symphony, First Movement</p> <p> Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Opening Sections</p> <p> Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der J ünglinge</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 3. Getting Started: Research</strong></p> <p>Choosing a Topic</p> <p>Kinds of Topics</p> <p>What Research Means</p> <p>Gathering Materials</p> <p>Places to Start: Print Resources</p> <p> Library Catalogues</p> <p> Dictionaries and Encyclopedias</p> <p> Histories of Music</p> <p> Biographies</p> <p> Thematic Catalogues</p> <p> Articles</p> <p> Dissertations</p> <p> Scores and Recordings</p> <p>Places to Start: Electronic Resources</p> <p> Search Engines</p> <p> Databases</p> <p> Lexicons</p> <p> Online Journals</p> <p> JSTOR</p> <p>Evaluating Resources</p> <p>Foreign-Language Resources</p> <p>When to Stop: How Much Research Is Enough?</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 4. Writing a Research Paper</strong></p> <p>The Outline</p> <p> Topic and Thesis</p> <p> Topic Outline versus Sentence Outline</p> <p> Introduction</p> <p> Body</p> <p> Conclusion</p> <p> Revising the Outline</p> <p>Writing the Draft</p> <p> Musical Examples</p> <p> Diagrams, Graphics, and Tables</p> <p> Footnotes</p> <p> Bibliography</p> <p>Revising and Editing the Draft</p> <p> Computers and Editing</p> <p> Checking Spelling and Grammar</p> <p> The Editing Process</p> <p>Printing</p> <p>Proofreading</p> <p>Keep Your File</p> <p>Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 5. Questions of Format</strong></p> <p>Format for College Papers</p> <p> Paper</p> <p> Page Format</p> <p> Fonts</p> <p> Spacing</p> <p> Justification</p> <p> Page Numbers</p> <p>Format for Quotations</p> <p> Short Quotations</p> <p> Block Quotations</p> <p> Ellipsis and Editorial Additions</p> <p>Bibliography and Footnote Form: Humanities Style</p> <p> Books</p> <p> Additional Notes for Both Bibliography Entries and Footnotes</p> <p> Dissertations</p> <p> Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias</p> <p> Articles in Periodicals</p> <p> Notes</p> <p> Notes on Articles in Lexicons</p> <p> Articles in Collections of Essays</p> <p> Scores</p> <p> Sound Recordings</p> <p> Citing Interviews, Correspondence, etc.</p> <p> Citing Electronic resources</p> <p>The Author-Date System of Citation</p> <p> Reference Lists (Lists of Works Cited)</p> <p> Parenthetical Citations in the Text</p> <p>Format Issues Related to Writing about Music</p> <p> Stylistic Periods</p> <p> Referring to Centuries</p> <p> Referring to Musical Works</p> <p> Naming Notes and Keys</p> <p> Foreign terms</p> <p> Musical Examples</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p><strong>Chapter 6. Other Kinds of Writing Projects</strong></p> <p>Seminar Presentations</p> <p> Research</p> <p> Organizing the Presentation</p> <p> Tone and Approach</p> <p>Concert Reports</p> <p> Purpose</p> <p> Research</p> <p> Writing the Report</p> <p>Program Notes</p> <p> Purpose</p> <p> Who is the Audience?</p> <p> Research</p> <p> Working within Limits</p> <p> Special Problems</p> <p> Texts and Translations</p> <p> Conclusion</p> <p>Essay Examinations</p> <p> Purpose</p> <p> Preparing for Essay Examinations</p> <p> How to Proceed</p> <p> Common Errors</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p><strong>Chapter 7. Writing Style</strong></p> <p>Some Basic Ideas about Writing</p> <p>Different Kinds of Prose</p> <p>Tone</p> <p>The Stance of the Writer</p> <p>Referring to Yourself</p> <p>Writing Effective Sentences</p> <p> Word Choice</p> <p> Word Combinations</p> <p> Sentence Structure</p> <p>Effective Paragraphs</p> <p>The Effective Essay</p> <p> Introduction</p> <p> Transitions</p> <p> Conclusion</p> <p>Summary</p> <p> <strong>Chapter 8. Common Writing Problems</strong></p> <p>Errors in Basic Grammar and Writing</p> <p> Incomplete Sentences</p> <p> Run-on Sentences</p> <p> Agreement: Subject and Verb</p> <p> Agreement: Pronoun and Antecedent</p> <p> Proper Cases of Pronouns</p> <p> Relative Pronouns</p> <p> Misplaced Modifiers</p> <p> The Split Infinitive</p> <p> Mixed Metaphors</p> <p>Spelling Issues</p> <p> Using a Dictionary</p> <p> Forming Possessives</p> <p> Plurals of Borrowed Latin and Greek Words</p> <p> Foreign Words</p> <p> Medieval and Renaissance Names</p> <p>Some Troublesome Word Pairs</p> <p>Its and It’s</p> <p> Your and You’re</p> <p> Whose and Who’s</p> <p> Affect and Effect</p> <p> Due to and Because of</p> <p> Fewer and Less</p> <p> Like and Such as</p> <p> Predominant and Predominate</p> <p> Principal and Principle</p> <p>Punctuation</p> <p> The Period</p> <p> The Comma</p> <p> The Semicolon</p> <p> The Colon</p> <p> Quotation Marks</p> <p> The Hyphen</p> <p> The Dash</p> <p> Parentheses</p> <p>Special Problems Involved in Writing about Music</p> <p> Technical Terms</p> <p> Describing Musical Events</p> <p>Summary</p> <p><strong>CONCLUSION</strong></p> <p><strong>APPENDIX: SAMPLE PAPER</strong></p> <p><strong>INDEX</strong></p>