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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 | |