Bibliograpy Entry Instructions
Music Department

Bibliography Entry
Instructions


The following are guidelines for the bibliography entry form for the Analysis of Song seminar. Below you will find instructions for books and edited collections, items published in collections or anthologies, and journals. There are also guidelines for entering foreign-language titles.

N.B.: Where relevant, library call numbers may be entered in the "Comments" portion of the form.

Entries for books and edited volumes should appear as follows:

Example 1:

Author: Abbate, Carolyn
Title: Unsung voices: opera and musical narrative in the nineteenth century
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date of publication: 1991

Example 2:

Author: Dahlhaus, Carl
Title: Nineteenth-century music
Contributor: Robinson, J. Bradford (remember to check the "translator" box)
Place of publication: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Date of publication: 1989

Example 3:

Author: Hallmark, Rufus (ed.)
Title: German Lieder in the nineteenth century
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Date of publication: 1995

Entries for an item published in an anthology or collection of essays should appear as follows:

Author: Cone, Edward T.
Title: Words into music: the composer's approach to the text
Contributor: Morgan, Robert P.
Title of collection: Music: a view from Delft
Place of publication: Chicago
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date of publication: 1989
Page reference: 115-123

Entries for an item published in a journal should appear as follows:

Author: Lewin, David
Title: Auf dem Flusse: image and background in a Schubert song
Journal: 19th-Century Music
Year: 1982
Quarter or month: Summer
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page reference: 47-59

Entering diacriticals

There is as yet no happy way to enter the diacriticals used in certain foreign languages when filling out forms on the Web. Here are three basic strategies for dealing with this situation:

  1. You can ignore the diacriticals and bring hard copy to the next meeting of the seminar. I'll modify the entry that appears in the bibliography page to reflect the correct diacriticals.
  2. You can paste text taken from a word processor that does allow you to enter diacriticals. What is sent to me over the Net is a bit strange, but I should be able to make sense of it.
  3. You can attempt to enter the diacriticals through a rudimentary translation code. For instance, ä can be entered as ae or a: . In French, the character á can be entered as a', and the character â can be entered as a^.
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