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| Preface to The Fourth Edition | |
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| Purpose of the Fourth Edition | |
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| Changes in the Fourth Edition | |
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| Other Resources | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing about Music | |
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| Why We Write about Music | |
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| The Special Challenges of Writing about Music | |
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| Inappropriate Ways to Write about Music | |
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| Musicological Research and Writing | |
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| Analysis and Research | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Examples of Works and Research Directions | |
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| "Moro, lasso" | |
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| Opening Chorus of Cantata No. 80, Ein' | |
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| feste Burg ist unser Gott | |
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| Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor, K. 491, First Movement | |
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| Otello, Act I, Scene 3 | |
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| "Faust" | |
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| Symphony, First Movement | |
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| The Rite of Spring, Opening Sections | |
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| Gesang der J �nglinge | |
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| Getting Started: Research | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Kinds of Topics | |
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| What Research Means | |
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| Gathering Materials | |
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| Places to Start: Print Resources | |
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| Library Catalogues | |
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| Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | |
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| Histories of Music | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Thematic Catalogues | |
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| Articles | |
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| Dissertations | |
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| Scores and Recordings | |
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| Places to Start: Electronic Resources | |
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| Search Engines | |
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| Databases | |
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| Lexicons | |
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| Online Journals | |
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| JSTOR | |
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| Evaluating Resources | |
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| Foreign-Language Resources | |
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| When to Stop: How Much Research Is Enough? | |
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| Writing a Research Paper | |
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| The Outline | |
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| Topic and Thesis | |
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| Topic Outline versus Sentence Outline | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Body | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revising the Outline | |
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| Writing the Draft | |
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| Musical Examples | |
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| Diagrams, Graphics, and Tables | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Bibiliography | |
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| Revising and Editing the Draft | |
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| Computers and Editing | |
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| Checking Spelling and Grammar | |
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| The Editing Process | |
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| Printing | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Keep Your File | |
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| Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions of Format | |
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| Format for College Papers | |
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| Paper | |
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| Page Format | |
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| Fonts | |
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| Spacing | |
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| Justification | |
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| Page Numbers | |
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| Format for Quotations | |
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| Short Quotations | |
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| Block Quotations | |
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| Ellipsis and Editorial Additions | |
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| Bibliography and Footnote Form: Humanities Style | |
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| Books | |
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| Additional Notes for Both Bibliography Entries and Footnotes | |
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| Dissertations | |
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| Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | |
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| Articles in Periodicals | |
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| Notes | |
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| Notes on Articles in Lexicons | |
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| Articles in Collections of Essays | |
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| Scores | |
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| Sound Recordings | |
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| Citing Interviews, Correspondence, etc | |
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| Citing Electronic resources | |
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| The Author-Date System of Citation | |
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| Reference Lists (Lists of Works Cited) | |
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| Parenthetical Citations in the Text | |
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| Format Issues Related to Writing about Music | |
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| Stylistic Periods | |
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| Referring to Centuries | |
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| Referring to Musical Works | |
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| Naming Notes and Keys | |
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| Foreign terms | |
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| Musical Examples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Other Kinds of Writing Projects | |
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| Seminar Presentations | |
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| Research | |
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| Organizing the Presentation | |
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| Tone and Approach | |
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| Concert Reports | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Research | |
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| Writing the Report | |
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| Program Notes | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Who is the Audience? | |
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| Research | |
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| Working within Limits | |
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| Special Problems | |
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| Texts and Translations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Essay Examinations | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Preparing for Essay Examinations | |
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| How to Proceed | |
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| Common Errors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Style | |
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| Some Basic Ideas about Writing | |
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| Different Kinds of Prose | |
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| Tone | |
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| The Stance of the Writer | |
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| Referring to Yourself | |
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| Writing Effective Sentences | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Word Combinations | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Effective Paragraphs | |
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| The Effective Essay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Common Writing Problems | |
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| Errors in Basic Grammar and Writing | |
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| Incomplete Sentences | |
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| Run-on Sentences | |
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| Agreement: Subject and Verb | |
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| Agreement: Pronoun and Antecedent | |
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| Proper Cases of Pronouns | |
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| Relative Pronouns | |
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| Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| The Split Infinitive | |
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| Mixed Metaphors | |
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| Spelling Issues | |
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| Using a Dictionary | |
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| Forming Possessives | |
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| Plurals of Borrowed Latin and Greek Words | |
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| Foreign Words | |
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| Medieval and Renaissance Names | |
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| Some Troublesome Word Pairs | |
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| Its and It's | |
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| Your and You're | |
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| Whose and Who's | |
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| Affect and Effect | |
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| Due to and Because of Fewer and Less | |
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| Like and Such as | |
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| Predominant and Predominate | |
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| Principal and Principle | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| The Period | |
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| The Comma | |
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| The Semicolon | |
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| The Colon | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| The Hyphen | |
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| The Dash | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Special Problems Involved in Writing about Music | |
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| Technical Terms | |
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| Describing Musical Events | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Sample Paper | |
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| Index | |