Research Guides: MUS 411: Music History I: Writing About Music

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Books--Writing about music

Music in Words by Trevor Herbert
Call Number: ML3797 .H537 2009
ISBN: 9780195373738
Publication Date: 2009
How to write : some basics for shorter writing tasks -- Doing research : a basic method for longer projects -- Using libraries and the Internet -- Scholarly documentation : citing sources -- Using illustrations : notated music, pictures, tables, and other visual representations -- Language and numbers -- Some musical terms and phrases -- Sources and research tools -- Citations I : the printed word and its electronic equivalents -- Citations II : musical sources -- Citations III : other sources
Irvine's Writing about Music by Demar Irvine; Mark A. Radice (Revised by)
Call Number: ML3797 .I79 1999
ISBN: 1574670492
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Also available as an ebook at the link above.
Words & music: form and procedure in theses, dissertations, research papers, book reports, programs, theses in composition by E. Eugene Helm & Albert T. Luper
Call Number: ML3797 .H49 1982
ISBN: 0913574163
Publication Date: 1982

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Books--Writing about music