Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire
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Bibliographies of Choral Music topics can be found in Reference and the General Stacks under ML128.C48. Here are some recent choral music bibliographies:
Choral Music
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Choral Repertoire
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Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for practicing conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts, it is an account of the complete choral output of the most significant composers of this genre throughout history. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era; trends and styles unique to various countries; biographical sketches of over 500 composers; and performance annotations of more than 5,000 individual works. This book will be an essential guide to programming, a reference tool for program notes and other research, and, most importantly, a key resource for conductors, instructors, scholars, and students of choral music.
A Conductor's Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral-Orchestral Works
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Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music
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Collected Editions, Historical Series and Sets, and Monuments of Music
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A bibliography of collected editions, monuments, and sets of music. These sets are commonly shelved under M1-M3.
Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music
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A bibliography of collected editions, monuments, and sets of music. These sets are commonly shelved under M1-M3.
Historical Dictionary of Choral Music
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
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Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik
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Comprehensive scholarly encyclopedia of musical topics in German. Comprises two sets, Sachteil (topical encyclopedia) and Personenteil (biographical encyclopedia).
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Comprehensive scholarly encyclopedia of musical topics in English. Most current edition is available in Grove Music Online (via Oxford Music Online).
Books on writing about music are at ML 3797.
A Style and Usage Guide to Writing about Music
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In A Style and Usage Guide to Writing About Music, Thomas Donahue presents a collection of guidelines to help express through the written word the special notations, terms, and concepts found in the discipline of music. It concentrates on questions of style and format in the interest of good formal writing within the context of United-States English, so that writers may communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.While compiling the guidelines, Donahue reviewed content from many other music and general guides. He documented the most common formats in order to assist the writer in selecting an appropriate format for the given circumstance when more than one may apply. The book draws on profuse musically-oriented examples and is arranged by topics both musical and typographic, such as the proper use and spelling of composer names and musical concepts; the use of notes, pitches, and octave delineations; letters and numbers employed to describe form and harmony; when, where, and how to apply compound words and hyphenation of terms and names; and the proper citation of musical and audiovisual sources. The book concludes with a glossary of typographic terms, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index, making this a valuable resource for students, scholars, teachers, and writers.
Music in Words
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A textbook and reference book "about the way we research music and write about it." Graduate student level.
A Handbook for Preparing Graduate Papers in Music
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To apply musical analysis in your research, you have three basic options: 1) you can conduct your own analysis, 2) you can read someone else's analyses, 3) you can conduct your own analysis and compare it to one or more analyses by others. You can often find analyses of musical works in book form by searching for the musical work in Library Search and limiting your results to books. Individual analyses are often classified with biographies for the composer who wrote the work, at ML410 on the shelf. You can also find analyses in article form by searching for the musical work in a periodical index database (see core databases on the Articles page of this guide) or by consulting a specialized bibliography of analyses, like the two listed below:
Analyses of Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
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Music Analyses
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