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