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Short Guide to Writing About Music, A

by: Bellman, Jonathan

Short Guide to Writing About Music, A

by: Bellman, Jonathan

ISBN 13:
9780321015778
ISBN 10:
0321015770
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

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.

Preface

xiii

Writing About Music

(20)

Words about Music: Why?

(2)

Choosing an Audience

(1)

Kinds of Writing

(6)

Biography and History

(2)

Style Study

(2)

Analysis

(1)

Performance Study

(1)

Organological Study

(1)

Archival Study

(1)

Source Study

(1)

Criticism

(6)

Cultural Criticism

(1)

Feminist Criticism

(2)

Gay and Lesbian Criticism

(1)

Marxist Criticism

(1)

The Author's Opinion: Clarity and Restraint

(5)

Writing About Music by and for Those Who Cannot (Necessarily) Read it

(18)

What You Can and Cannot Do

(1)

The Reaction Paper

(3)

The Concert Review

(5)

Reporting on a News Event

(1)

Artistic Evaluation

(3)

Promoting Community Interest in Music

(1)

Popular and World Musics

(6)

Writing Music Analysis

(12)

Analysis and Its Uses

(3)

Analytical Content vs. Play-by-Play

(9)

Analysis Without Musical Examples

(1)

Technical Terminology

(1)

Two Analytical Excerpts with Commentary

(5)

Three Kinds of Practical Writing

(18)

Program and Liner Notes

(10)

Biographical Background

(1)

Cultural Context

(1)

Style and Affect

(8)

Summaries and Abstracts

(3)

The Summary

(1)

The Abstract

(2)

The Press Release

(4)

Opinion and the Writing of an Effective Essay

(14)

Presentation and Tone

(3)

Organization

(1)

Confrontational Writing

(2)

Stylistic Excess

(1)

The Writing Process: From Outline to Final Draft

(5)

Hints on Beginning

(1)

Collegial Editing: Essays as Peer Review Exercises

(4)

Research in Music

(22)

The Purposes of Research

(1)

Choice of Topic

(1)

Kinds of Written Sources

(7)

Non-English Sources

(1)

Reference Sources

(1)

Books

(1)

Journal and Magazine Articles

(2)

Recording Liner Notes

(1)

Web-Based Sources

(1)

Musical Scores

(1)

Use of Sources

(6)

Optimizing Research Time

(1)

Don't Believe Everything You Read!

(1)

Scholarly vs. Textbook Sources

(1)

Relative Age of Sources

(1)

Authorial Perspective

(1)

Dependability of the Source Itself

(1)

Special Difficulties in Using Musical Sources

(2)

Citing Your Sources

(2)

To Quote or to Paraphrase?

(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)

Index

171

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