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Writing about music : an introductory guide / Richard J. Wingell.
Van Pelt - Marian Anderson Music Study Center (452) ML3797 .W54 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wingell, Richard, 1936-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Historiography--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Music.
- Musical criticism--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Musical criticism.
- Academic writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Academic writing.
- Musical criticism--Authorship.
- Music--Historiography.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 171 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Writing about Music 1
- Why We Write about Music 1
- The Special Challenges of Writing about Music 2
- Inappropriate Ways to Write about Music 3
- Musicological Research and Writing 7
- 2 Analysis and Research 9
- Examples of Works and Research Directions 13
- Gesualdo: "Moro, lasso" 13
- J. S. Bach: Opening Chorus of Cantata No. 80, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott 14
- Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor, K. 491, First Movement 16
- Verdi: Otello, Act I, Scene 3 17
- Liszt: A Faust Symphony, First Movement 18
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Opening Sections 19
- 3 Getting Started: Research 21
- Choosing a Topic 21
- Kinds of Topics 23
- What Research Means 24
- Gathering Materials 25
- Places to Start: Print Resources 26
- Library Catalogs 26
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 26
- Histories of Music 28
- Biographies 30
- Thematic Catalogs 30
- Articles 31
- Dissertations 31
- Scores and Recordings 32
- Places to Start: Electronic Resources 33
- On-line Library Catalogs 33
- Databases on CD-ROM 34
- The Internet 35
- Evaluating Resources 37
- Foreign-Language Resources 38
- When to Stop: How Much Research Is Enough? 38
- 4 Writing a Research Paper 40
- The Outline 40
- Topic and Thesis 40
- Introduction 41
- Body 42
- Conclusion 42
- Revising the Outline 42
- Writing the Draft 43
- Musical Examples 44
- Diagrams, Graphics, and Tables 45
- Footnotes 46
- Bibliography 48
- Revising and Editing the Draft 50
- Computers and Editing 50
- Checking Spelling and Grammar 51
- The Editing Process 52
- Printing 54
- Proofreading 54
- Keep Your File 55
- Plagiarism 55
- 5 Questions of Format 59
- Format for College Papers 59
- Paper 60
- Page Format 60
- Fonts 61
- Spacing 61
- Justification 61
- Page Numbers 62
- Format for Quotations 62
- Short Quotations 63
- Block Quotations 63
- Ellipsis and Editorial Additions 64
- Bibliography and Footnote Form 65
- Dissertations 70
- Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 70
- Articles in Periodicals 72
- Articles in Collections of Essays 73
- Scores 73
- Sound Recordings 74
- Citing Interviews, Correspondence, and E-Mail 75
- Citing Electronic Resources 75
- Format Issues Related to Writing about Music 78
- Stylistic Periods 78
- Referring to Musical Works 78
- Naming Notes and Keys 80
- Foreign Terms 81
- Musical Examples 82
- 6 Other Kinds of Writing Projects 83
- The Seminar Presentation 83
- Research 84
- Organizing the Presentation 84
- Tone and Approach 88
- Concert Reports 88
- Purpose 89
- Research 89
- Writing the Report 90
- Program Notes 91
- Purpose 91
- Who Is the Audience? 91
- Research 92
- Working within Limits 93
- Special Problems 94
- Texts and Translations 96
- Essay Examinations 97
- Purpose 97
- Preparing for Essay Examinations 98
- How to Proceed 98
- Common Errors 99
- 7 Writing Style 102
- Some Basic Ideas about Writing 102
- Kinds of Prose 104
- Tone 105
- The Stance of the Writer 106
- Referring to Yourself 107
- Writing Effective Sentences 108
- Word Choice 108
- Word Combinations 111
- Sentence Structure 114
- Effective Paragraphs 118
- The Effective Essay 119
- Transitions 120
- 8 Common Writing Problems 122
- Errors in Basic Grammar and Writing 122
- Incomplete Sentences 122
- Run-on Sentences 123
- Agreement: Subject and Verb 123
- Agreement: Pronoun and Antecedent 124
- Proper Cases of Pronouns 126
- Relative Pronouns 126
- Misplaced Modifiers 128
- The Split Infinitive 131
- Mixed Metaphors 131
- Spelling Issues 132
- Using a Dictionary 132
- Forming Possessives 133
- Plurals of Borrowed Latin and Greek Words 134
- Foreign Words 134
- Medieval and Renaissance Names 135
- Some Troublesome Word Pairs 136
- Its and It's 136
- Your and You're 136
- Whose and Who's 137
- Affect and Effect 137
- Due to and Because of 137
- Discreet and Discrete 137
- Fewer and Less 138
- Principal and Principle 138
- Punctuation 138
- The Period 139
- The Comma 139
- The Semicolon 141
- The Colon 142
- Quotation Marks 142
- The Hyphen 143
- The Dash 143
- Parentheses 144
- Special Problems Involved in Writing about Music 144
- Technical Terms 144
- Describing Musical Events 147.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0130406031
- OCLC:
- 47892364
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