A short guide to writing about music /
Intended for all writers on music, college through budding professional, and far more than a course textbook, this brief and inexpensive text coaches writers how to approach, research and write about music. A Short Guide to Writing about Music is written in a clear and conversational style, and empl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pearson Longman,
[2007]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | The short guide series
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1: Writing About Music
- Words about music: why?
- Choosing an audience
- Kinds of writing
- History and biography
- Style study
- Analysis
- Performance study
- Organological, archival, and source studies
- Criticism
- Marxist criticism
- Soviet pseudo-Marxist criticism
- Cultural criticism
- Gender studies in music
- Postcolonial criticism
- Author's opinion: clarity and restraint
- 2: Writing About Music By, And For, Those Who Cannot (Necessarily) Read It
- What you can and cannot do
- Concert review
- Reporting on a news event
- Artistic evaluation
- Promoting community interest in music
- Popular and world musics
- Crossing the cultural divide
- 3: Writing Music Analysis
- Analysis and its uses
- Analytical content vs play-by-play
- Analysis without musical examples
- Technical terminology
- Two analytical excerpts with commentary
- Organizing analytical writing
- 4: Three Kinds Of Practical Writing
- Program and liner notes
- Biographical background
- Cultural context
- Style and affect
- Summaries and abstracts
- Summary
- Abstract
- Press release
- 5: Belief Into Words: Opinion And The Writing Of An Effective Essay
- Presentation and tone
- Organization
- Confrontational writing
- Stylistic excess
- Writing process: from outline to final draft
- Benefits of the Suzuki Method / Jessica Mosier
- Skryabin's mystical beliefs and the holographic model / Jeff Simpson
- Hints on beginning
- 6: Research In Music
- Purposes of research
- Choice of topic
- Locating sources
- Kinds of written sources
- Non-English sources
- Reference sources
- Books
- Journal and magazine articles
- Other Web-based sources
- Recording liner notes
- Musical scores
- Use of sources
- Optimizing research time
- Don't believe everything you read!
- Scholarly vs textbook sources
- Relative age of sources
- Authorial perspective
- Dependability of the source itself
- Special difficulties in using musical sources
- Citing your sources
- To quote or to paraphrase?
- Turning research into writing
- Foundations of your research
- On being derivative
- Whose ideas?
- Choice of sources
- Opening paragraph
- Conclusions
- 7: Sample Research Paper In Music
- Gershwin's French Connection / Amie Margoles
- Commentary on the Margoles Paper
- 8: Style In Writing
- Meaning of "Style"
- Academic style traits
- Complex sentence structure
- Obscure words
- First person plural
- Passive voice
- Traditional academic organization
- Fashioning clear sentences
- Taste
- Gender-neutral wording and the pronoun problem
- Transitions
- Variety
- Punctuation
- Colon, semicolon, and comma
- Note on hyphens and centuries
- Specifically musical uses of punctuation
- Accuracy in wording
- Ill-advised upgrades
- Beat, meter, rhythm
- That and which
- Accuracy in spelling and punctuation
- Aggregate titles
- Awkward wording
- Toward a personal style
- 9: Final Manuscript
- General format
- Binding, paper, duplication
- Word processing
- Copies
- Title page
- Spacing and margins
- Block quotations
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Latin abbreviations and terminology
- Musical abbreviations
- Titles of musical works
- Musical examples and captions
- Production of examples
- Captions
- Citation process
- Footnotes or endnotes
- Parenthetical citation format
- Incomplete citations
- Abbreviated citation form
- Sample citations
- Explanatory footnotes
- Musical scores
- Last-minute corrections
- Index.