Full Description
A Short Guide to Writing about Music parallels musical skills to writing skills, examining a wide range of writing tasks for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Intended for all writers on music — college through budding professional — and far more than a course textbook, this brief and inexpensive text coaches writers how to approach, research, and write about music. A Short Guide to Writing about Music is written in a clear and conversational style, and employs a variety of writing samples (both student and professional) as a means to illustrate effective writing.
Contents
PREFACE
1-WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
2-WRITING ABOUT MUSIC BY, AND FOR, THOSE WHO CANNOT (NECESSARILY) READ IT
3-WRITING MUSIC ANALYSIS
4-THREE KINDS OF PRACTICAL WRITING
5-BELIEF INTO WORDS: OPINION AND THE WRITING OF AN EFFECTIVE ESSAY
6-RESEARCH IN MUSIC
7-A SAMPLE RESEARCH PAPER IN MUSIC
8-STYLE IN WRITING
9-THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT
INDEX