Writing about Music: A Style SheetWhere do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane’s album A Love Supreme? Is it "premiere" or "première"? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers—anyone who deals with music in print. Extending the principles devised for the classical repertoires, this revised and expanded edition now includes examples from world music, rock, jazz, popular music, and cinema. This essential volume covers some of the thorniest issues of musical discourse: how to go about describing musical works and procedures in prose, the rules for citations in notes and bibliography, and proper preparation of such materials as musical examples, tables, and illustrations. One section discusses program notes, while others explain the requirements for submitting manuscripts and electronic files, and outline best practices for student writers. An appendix lists common problem words. Updates include greatly simplified citations of Internet locators, the recognition of multiple platforms, and the expectation of paperless transmission and storage of work. Cited as the authority by The Chicago Manual of Style, this classic handbook is the go-to source for anyone writing about music. |
Contents
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2 NARRATIVE TEXT | 20 |
3 CITATIONS AND CREDITS | 51 |
4 MUSICAL EXAMPLES | 72 |
5 TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS | 85 |
6 PROGRAMS PROGRAM NOTES AND CONCERT REVIEWS | 92 |
7 FILE PREPARATION AND CONTROL | 109 |
8 BEST PRACTICES FOR STUDENT WRITERS | 113 |
Problem Words and Sample Style Sheet | 121 |
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2nd edn Abbreviations accent album Allegro American artist Bach bass Bedřich Smetana Beethoven Berlioz bibliography Block Quotations Boston Symphony Orchestra Cambridge capitalize catalog characters chorus citation cited classical Comédie Française concert dash Deathlike Silence Productions Deldevez Diacritics Earache Records edition editor English Facebook files font foreign languages francs given in roman Grove Dictionary Holoman WAM3 hyphen illustrations italic Jazz Jenůfa letter ligature lowercase Major manuscript meter signature Milan Minor Missa solemnis Music Notation Music Online musical examples Musical Symbol musicale Musik nouns Opera Opéra-Comique opus Orchestra Oxford paper Paris Peaceville Records performance Piano Pitch Names program notes publication published punctuation quotation marks Records reference roman type running text Schumann score sentence Simon Rattle Sonata Song spellings standard Style Sheet Symphony Tchaikovsky timpani translation transliterated Unicode uppercase Violin Webster’s Wikipedia writing about music York