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Short Guide to Writing About Music, A

ISBN: 9780321015778 | 0321015770
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
Written in a clear and conversational style, A Short Guide to Writing About Music examines a wide range of writing assignments for music courses at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Employing a variety of writing samples as a means to illustrate effective writing, this brief and inexpensive text teaches writers how to deftly research and write about music.
Prefacexiii
Writing About Music
1(20)
Words about Music: Why?
1(2)
... MOREChoosing an Audience
3(1)
Kinds of Writing
4(6)
Biography and History
4(2)
Style Study
6(2)
Analysis
8(1)
Performance Study
8(1)
Organological Study
9(1)
Archival Study
9(1)
Source Study
10(1)
Criticism
10(6)
Cultural Criticism
12(1)
Feminist Criticism
12(2)
Gay and Lesbian Criticism
14(1)
Marxist Criticism
15(1)
The Author's Opinion: Clarity and Restraint
16(5)
Writing About Music by and for Those Who Cannot (Necessarily) Read it
21(18)
What You Can and Cannot Do
24(1)
The Reaction Paper
25(3)
The Concert Review
28(5)
Reporting on a News Event
28(1)
Artistic Evaluation
29(3)
Promoting Community Interest in Music
32(1)
Popular and World Musics
33(6)
Writing Music Analysis
39(12)
Analysis and Its Uses
39(3)
Analytical Content vs. Play-by-Play
42(9)
Analysis Without Musical Examples
44(1)
Technical Terminology
45(1)
Two Analytical Excerpts with Commentary
46(5)
Three Kinds of Practical Writing
51(18)
Program and Liner Notes
52(10)
Biographical Background
53(1)
Cultural Context
53(1)
Style and Affect
54(8)
Summaries and Abstracts
62(3)
The Summary
62(1)
The Abstract
63(2)
The Press Release
65(4)
Opinion and the Writing of an Effective Essay
69(14)
Presentation and Tone
70(3)
Organization
70(1)
Confrontational Writing
70(2)
Stylistic Excess
72(1)
The Writing Process: From Outline to Final Draft
73(5)
Hints on Beginning
78(1)
Collegial Editing: Essays as Peer Review Exercises
79(4)
Research in Music
83(22)
The Purposes of Research
83(1)
Choice of Topic
84(1)
Kinds of Written Sources
85(7)
Non-English Sources
86(1)
Reference Sources
86(1)
Books
87(1)
Journal and Magazine Articles
88(2)
Recording Liner Notes
90(1)
Web-Based Sources
90(1)
Musical Scores
91(1)
Use of Sources
92(6)
Optimizing Research Time
92(1)
Don't Believe Everything You Read!
92(1)
Scholarly vs. Textbook Sources
93(1)
Relative Age of Sources
94(1)
Authorial Perspective
95(1)
Dependability of the Source Itself
95(1)
Special Difficulties in Using Musical Sources
96(2)
Citing Your Sources
98(2)
To Quote or to Paraphrase?
99(1)
Turning Research into Writing
100(1)
The Foundations of Your Research
100(1)
On Being Derivative
101(1)
Whose Ideas?
101(4)
Choice of Sources
101(1)
Conclusions
102(3)
A Sample Research Paper in Music
105(26)
``Similar Processes, Different Results: Development in the Piano Works of Gyorgy Ligeti,''
106(22)
Tim Sullivan
Commentary on the Student Paper
128(3)
Style in Writing
131(22)
The Meaning of ``Style''
131(2)
Academic Style Traits
133(7)
Complex Sentence Structure
133(1)
Obscure Words
134(1)
First Person Plural
135(1)
Passive Voice
136(1)
Traditional Academic Organization
137(3)
Fashioning Clear Sentences
140(6)
Taste
142(1)
Transitions
143(2)
Variety
145(1)
Punctuation
146(2)
Colon, Semicolon, and Comma
146(2)
Specifically Musical Uses of Punctuation
148(1)
Accuracy in Wording
148(4)
Beat, Meter, Rhythm
150(1)
That and Which
150(1)
Accuracy in Spelling and Punctuation
151(1)
Aggregate Titles: Singular or Plural?
151(1)
Awkward Wording
151(1)
Toward a Personal Style
152(1)
The Final Manuscript
153(18)
General Format
153(3)
Binding, Paper, Duplication
153(1)
Word Processing
153(1)
Copies
154(1)
Title Page
154(1)
Spacing and Margins
155(1)
Block Quotations
155(1)
Bibliography
155(1)
Musical Examples and Captions
156(2)
Production of Examples
156(1)
Captions
157(1)
Citations
158(2)
Sample Citations
160(11)
Explanatory Footnotes
168(1)
Musical Scores
169(1)
Abbreviated Citation Form
169(1)
Last-Minute Corrections
170(1)
Index171

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