LibGuides: Music: Writing About Music

Academic Writing Help

Writing Help
Visit the English Composition page for basic academic writing tips and tricks.

Other sites that offer useful information on how to complete an annotated bibliography

Here are a couple of Internet resources that will help you writing about music. Each gives valuable points to ponder as you write.

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Style Sheet
A valuable resource for italicization, abbreviations and regularization of music words; also conforms to Chicago Manual practices.

Ain't but a few of us : black music writers tell their story by Willard Jenkins 1949-(Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781478023661
Publication Date: 2022
Insights into Music Composition by Gregory Young; Steve Roens
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781003205869
Publication Date: 2022-04-19
On the Record by Mike Hilleary
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781613768518
Publication Date: 2020-09-25
Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780520958814
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
A Short Guide to Writing about Music by Jonathan D. Bellman
Call Number: ML 3797 .B4 2007
ISBN: 0321187911
Publication Date: 2006-04-20
From the Publisher: Written in a clear and conversational style, A Short Guide to Writing About Music,2e examines a wide range of writing assignments for music courses at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Employing a variety of writing samples as a means to illustrate effective writing, this brief and inexpensive text teaches writers how to deftly research and write about music.
Music in Words by Trevor Herbert
Call Number: ML 3797 .H537 2009
ISBN: 9780195373738
Publication Date: 2009-02-16