Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition

Allen Scott

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780253014481
• eBook ISBN:
  9780253014566
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Theory & Appreciation

Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.

CHAPTER ONE

Introductory Materials

As a preliminary to the bibliographies that constitute the main body of this volume, this chapter presents some general information pertaining to research in music. First there is a list of standard English terms that relate to the scholarly study of music or to general bibliography and library research, with definitions. Next follow lists of such terms in the three other most important languages of research in music, German, French, and Italian, together with English equivalents. The final lists are general outlines of the music classification numbers in the two standard library cataloging systems in North America, the Library of Congress Classification system and the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

1.1 COMMON ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TERMS

The terms that follow have been brought together because of their application to scholarship in general and the scholarly study of music in particular. Some (e.g., abstract, anthology, catalog, discography) will be quite familiar and are generally known, while others might be confusing (congress report, journal, magazine, periodical). Many, even most, are likely to be less familiar because they are new or relate to the study of books (codex, foliation, incunabula, siglum, watermark), manuscripts (autograph, choirbook, holograph), printing (colophon, facsimile, frontispiece), research libraries (archive, carrel, microforms, serial, stacks), or scholarship (collate, historical set, iconography, Urtext). Some are technical or specialized enough so that they are not to be found in most dictionaries. For further information and other terms, see Michael Levine-Clark and Toni M. Carter, eds., A.L.A. Glossary of Library and Information Science, 4th ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2012); Jean Peters, The Bookman’s Glossary, 6th ed., rev. and enl. (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1983); and Willem Elbertus Clason, ed., Elsevier’s Dictionary of Library Science, Information and Documentation in Six Languages: English/American, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam, London, and New York: Elsevier, 1992).

abstract—a summary of a book, article, etc.; also called a précis (e.g., Dissertation Abstracts, RILM Abstracts).

anthology—a representative collection of selected musical or literary works or excerpts.

archive—a place in which public or institutional records are systematically preserved, or a repository of any documents or other materials, especially those of historical value.

arrangement—a reworking of a musical composition so that the performing forces, the musical content, or the form are substantially different from the original (compare edition, definition c, and transcription).

autograph—a document (music manuscript, letter, etc.) written or signed in a person’s own h...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introductory Materials
• Part 1: Sources of Literature about Music and Musicians
• Part 2: Sources of Music and Recordings
• Indexes