Music in words
Subtitle: a guide to researching and writing about music
By: Trevor Herbert
Contributors: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain)
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: ABRSM
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781848491007
Subjects: Musicology; Musicologie
Description: "Music in Words is both a guide and an invaluable reference tool for researching and writing about music. Fully updated and revised, the book aims to address all the issues that anyone, from students to professional musicians, may encounter when undertaking a writing task, irrespective of the style of music they are writing about."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: PART I; title: 1. How to write: some basics for shorter writing tasks; title: 2. Doing research: a basic method for longer projects; title: 4. using libraries and the internet; title: 4. Scholarly conventions: citing sources; title: 5. Using illustrations: notated music, pictures, tables and other visual representations; title: PART II; title: 6. Language and numbers; title: 7. Some musical terms and phrases; title: 8. Sources and research tools; title: 9. Citations I: The printed word and its electronic equivalents; title: 10. Citations II: Musical sources; title: 11. Citations III: Other sources.