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Description
A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. This informative textbook provides concrete examples of different types of writing, offering a thorough introduction to music literature. It clearly describes various information-searching techniques and library-based organizational systems and introduces the array of music resources available.
Pauline Shaw Bayne has cleanly organized the material in three succinct parts, allowing for three independent tracks of study. Part I treats essentials of the research process. It explains starting point resources like library catalogs, dictionaries, and bibliographies; addresses scholarly documentation, the use of style manuals, and basics of copyright; and provides samples of common written research products. Part 2 develops skills and strategies for library and Internet-based research, describing database structures and library catalogs, subject searching in catalogs and journal indexes, keyword searching techniques, related-record searching and citation databases, and the use of experts, the Internet, and thematic catalogs. In Part 3, Bayne describes music uniform titles and select resources that follow the organization of a music library, such as score collections, books and journals in music literature, and music teaching publications.
Each chapter concludes with learning exercises to aid the students' concept application and skill development. Appendixes provide short cuts to specific topics in library organizational systems, including Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification. The concluding bibliography provides a quick overview of music literature and resources, emphasizing electronic and print publications since 2000, but including standard references that all music researchers should know.
Table of Contents
Part 2 List of Figures
Part 3 Preface
Part 4 Part 1. The Short Course: Music Research and Writing
Chapter 5 1. The Research Process
Chapter 6 2. Starting-Point Resources: Reference Books
Chapter 7 3. Starting-Point Resources: Journals
Chapter 8 4. Starting-Point Resources: Bibliographies
Chapter 9 5. A Case Study
Chapter 10 6. Scholarly Writing
Chapter 11 7. Writing Samples
Part 12 Part 2. How to Discover and Use Resources
Chapter 13 8. Browsing as a Discovery Strategy
Chapter 14 9. Databases: Structured for Searching
Chapter 15 10. Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Controlled Vocabulary
Chapter 16 11. Subject Searching in Indexes and Abstracts
Chapter 17 12. Keyword Searching
Chapter 18 13. Related-Record Searching and Citation Indexes
Chapter 19 14. Other Discovery Methods: Experts and the Internet
Chapter 20 15. Using Thematic Catalogs
Part 21 Part 3. Resources: The Literature of Music
Chapter 22 16. M: The Music-Scores and Recordings
Chapter 23 17. ML: Music Literature
Chapter 24 18: MT: Instruction and Study
Part 25 Appendix 1. Form Subdivisions: A Selective List from the Library of Congress Subject Headings
Part 26 Appendix 2. Outline of the Library of Congress M-Class
Part 27 Appendix 3. Topical Guide to Music in the Library of Congress Classification
Part 28 Appendix 4. Bibliographies by Topic in ML128
Part 29 Bibliography
Part 30 Subject Index
Part 31 Author-Title Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Sep 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 290 |
| ISBN | 9781461655817 |
| Imprint | Scarecrow Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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