From: meyer@uuisis.isis.org (Katherine Meyer)
Subject: re:  HELP!
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:59:22 GMT

DANIELB@DEPAUW.BITNET writes:

Hi!  I don't know how 'little' a project this is, i.e. do you have
the term to do it or is this a presentation that you have to
prepare in a matter of days? and what materials are available to 
you in your library. 

However, if you do  have access to fairly decent music reference books, 
you should not (I.M.H.O.)  skimp on the time that you spend gathering 
the background materials for your  paper.  If you want to have complete 
and up to date sources then you
should check out things like RISM and other indexes that might point 
you to books and articles.  The index for Dissertations (sorry
I forget the exact title right now) is also a good place to look.
In some cases, where no indexes or other keys are available, you might
even be forced to do a hand search (for example through periodicals) for
relevant articles.  I like to do this sometimes anyway, at least with
periodicals of direct interest to the research.  In this case, I would
recommend at least checking through the issues of Early Music.  My
thinking behind this is that one never knows what may have been
accidently overlooked in the compilation of an index or bibliography.

Also, your library might have additional database searching services.
Once you have defined your topic it may be worthwhile to have a 
search done just to make sure that you haven't missed anything.

I have also found the staff in the University Libraries (music and main 
reference) to be very helpful especially when they can see that one has 
made the effort to check the sources.  (Or they will help you to find them
if you are new to the system).

Here are a few books that might be of interest.

Robert Donington.  The Interpretation of Early Music.
                    First Pub. 1963.  New Revised Edition 1989
                    Part one covers some issues about early music
                    interpretation and authenticity.  The rest of the
                    book covers aspects of performance practice.
                    Approx. 50 page bibliography.

Musical Aesthetics: A Historical Reader.  VOL I.  Ed. by.  Edward A.
                    Lippman.

Performance Practice:  Music After 1600.  (Vol. 2 of The Norton/Grove
                   Handbooks in Music.  Ed. by Howard Mayer Brown and
                   Stanley Sadie.  New York and London: W.W. Norton & 
                   Company, 1989.
                   An interesting guide with lots of citations for other
                   references.  

Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium.  Edited by Nicholas Kenyon.
                   Oxford University Press, 1988.  Reprinted 1990.
                   Has Citations for other references.

Joel Cohen & Herb Snitzer,  Reprise.  The Extraordinary Revival of Early
                   Music.  Little. Brown & Co., Toronto,1985.

Vinquist, Mary and Neal ZaSlaw.  Performance Practice: a bibliography.
        N.Y and London  W.W. Norton, 1971.  114 p.

Bukofzer, Manfred. F.  Music in the Baroque Era.  Monteverdi to Bach.
        N.Y and London  W.W. Norton, 1947.


Composer Biographies and 
books that contain letters or other documents written by the composers.
Julie Anne Sadies book Companion to Baroque Music would probably be a
good bet to get an overview of a specific region and its composers.
Hope your project goes well.

Good luck.

Katherine 
MEYER@UUISIS.ISIS.ORG
Canada