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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.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780253014566 |
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| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 518 |
| File size: | 755 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Allen Scott is Associate Professor of Music History at Oklahoma State University.
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Sourcebook for Research in Music
By Allen Scott, Phillip D. Crabtree, Donald H. Foster
Indiana University Press
Copyright © 2015 Indiana University PressAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-253-01456-6
CHAPTER 1
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 precis (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 hand; thus, a primary source (see sources, primary and secondary; compare holograph, manuscript).
carrel — an alcove or desk in a library — often in the stacks — comprising a table and shelves for private study, to which books in a library's collection may be charged for research use.
catalog, catalogue — (a) a list of the contents of a library, book collection, or group of libraries (see union catalog); (b) a list or index of compositions, usually by a single composer rather than of a collection or a repertory of music (see thematic catalog).
CD-ROM("compact disc read-only memory") — any information, such as a database, stored on compact discs and readable on the screen of a computer designed for this purpose, or one equipped with a CD-ROM drive (see online catalog, database).
choirbook — a music manuscript in a large enough format and with the separate voice parts of the compositions contained in it written large enough on the same or on facing pages so that an entire choir could sing from it (in use especially in the 15th and early 16th centuries). (See also partbook, manuscript.)
codex (pl.: codices) — an ancient book or unbound sheets in a manuscript(e.g., Squarcialupi Codex, Trent Codices; see The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, "Sources [pre-1500]").
collate — to compare minutely in order to determine whether two or more books or manuscripts are identical copies or variants.
collected works, complete edition — the publication of the entire compositional output of a single composer in a scholarly edition (compare edition, definition c, historical set, monument).
colophon — (a) an inscription usually placed at the end of a book or manuscript and containing facts relative to its production; (b) an identifying mark, emblem, or device sometimes used by a printer or publisher on the title page, cover, spine, or jacket, i.e., a logotype (commonly called "logo") (compare imprint).
congress report — a publication containing the texts of the papers read at a congress or conference, either a one-time event on a particular topic, such as an individual composer, or the regular meeting of a society; in the first instance, the report would normally be an independent publication, and in the second, it could be one of a series of such volumes (see proceedings) or published in the association's journal.
copyright (©) — the "right to copy"; the exclusive, legally secured right to reproduce, publish, record, and sell the matter and form of a literary, musical, or artistic work for a period in the United States of seventy years beyond the death of the writer, with no right of renewal (Copyright Act of 1976 and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998); works created in 1923 or after, and that were still in copyright in 1998, will not enter the public domain until 2019. Additions to and clarifications of U.S. copyright law are found in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) and the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act (2002).
discography — a listing of phonograph records, compact discs, videotapes, and/or tape recordings.
edition — (a) all the impressions of a literary work printed at any time or times from one setting-up of type (excluding a facsimile reproduction, which constitutes a different edition); (b) one of the successive forms — e.g., second, revised, enlarged, corrected, etc. — in which a work is published, either by the author or a subsequent editor (see also reprint edition, revised edition); (c) the presentation of an older musical composition in a version that makes it accessible to modern performers (compare arrangement, transcription).
engraving — the process of incising a design, musical composition, etc., on a metal plate, or the resulting print made from it when the incised lines are inked.
facsimile — an exact reproduction (but not necessarily the original color or size) of a manuscript or printed source (compare reprint edition).
fair copy — a neat copy of a corrected document.
fascicle — one of the temporary divisions of a work which is issued in small installments intended to be bound together permanently at a later time.
Festschrift — a publication on the occasion of a celebration, or in honor of someone (e.g., on the occasion of a renowned scholar's sixtieth birthday), usually consisting of articles by scholars practicing in the field of the one honored, e.g., colleagues, former students, or other professionals.
foliation — the consecutive numbering of the leaves (i.e., the sheets of paper with a page on each side) of a book or manuscript, as opposed to the numbering of the pages (see also recto, verso).
folio (f., fo., fol.) — (a) a leaf of a manuscript or book (see recto, verso); (b) formed of sheets each folded once into two leaves or four pages ("in folio"); (c) a page size more than 15 inches/38 centimeters high; (d) a volume of this size.
format — the general makeup of a book as to size and other features (see also folio, oblong, octavo, quarto).
frontispiece — an illustration preceding and facing the title page of a book.
historical set — a set of volumes of music of historical significance (compare monument; see chapter 7 of this book).
holograph — a document (music manuscript, letter, etc.) wholly in the handwriting of its author (from the Greek word holos, "whole" or "complete"); thus, a primary source (see sources, primary and secondary; compare autograph, manuscript).
iconography — the study of the representation of objects by means of images or statues, reliefs, mosaics, paintings, etc.
imprint — the publisher's name, often with address and date of publication, placed at the foot of the title page or elsewhere in a book (compare colophon).
incipit — the first few notes or words of text used to identify a musical composition.
incunabula(pl.) — Latin, "cradle"; books printed from movable type before 1500 (i.e., the cradle of printing).
ISBN, ISSN (International Standard Book Number; International Standard Serial Number) — code numbers in an international identification system first developed in the United Kingdom in 1967 and adopted in the U.S. in 1968; the identifying code is placed at the front of books and serials respectively (e.g., ISBN 0-697-03342-2, ISSN 10441608).
journal — (a) a generic term to refer to, or sometimes used in the title of, a scholarly periodical (e.g., Journal of the American Musicological Society); (b) a diary or daily record of occurrences, transactions, or reflections. (Compare magazine, periodical, proceedings, review, yearbook; see chapter 4 of this book.)
lacuna(pl.: lacunae) — a hiatus, gap, or missing portion in a source or body of works.
lexicon — a book containing an alphabetical or other systematic arrangement of words and their definitions; a dictionary.
magazine — a periodical containing articles, pictures, reviews, advertisements, etc., often of popular interest and sometimes focusing on a specific subject area.
manuscript (MS, ms) — (a) a book, document, musical composition, letter, etc., written by hand; (b) an author's written or typed copy of a work before it is printed; thus, a primary source (see sources, primary and secondary; compare autograph, holograph).
microforms-a general term for microfilm and other miniature processes of reproduction such as the following:
microcard — a card on which numerous pages of a book are reproduced in greatly reduced size.
microfiche — a card-like transparency on which appear multiple frames of microfilm.
microfilm — a photographic reproduction in which the image is reduced to fit a frame of 35 mm or 16 mm film.
monograph — a scholarly study (book or article) treating a single subject or a limited aspect of a subject (see also treatise).
monument, musical — a scholarly edition of music from one region or country (Denkmal [pl.: Denkmaler] is the German equivalent) (see edition, definition c; refer to chapter 5 of this book).
necrology — (a) a notice of the death of a person; obituary; (b) a list or record of people who have died within a certain period of time; in either sense, there may or may not be biographical information included.
oblong (ob., obl.) — a book size wider than it is high (e.g., 4° obl., 8° obl.).
octavo (8°, 8vo)- the size of a piece of paper cut eight from a sheet, or a page size about 9 3/4 inches/25 centimeters high.
online catalog, database — a catalog of information (such as a library's holdings with information about each item) loaded into a computer, which may be called up by author, title, subject, keyword(s), type or set of composition(s), etc., on a computer terminal (see catalog, catalogue, definition a).
opus (pl. opera, opuses) — a creative work, usually a composition, to which a number is assigned by a composer or publisher to indicate its order in a composed s written and/ or published output.
partbook — one of a set of printed or manuscript books, each containing the music for only one voice or instrument part in an ensemble (in use throughout the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth).
periodical — a journal or magazine ordinarily with a fixed interval between issues (compare serial).
précis — a summary of a book, article, etc.; also called abstract.
proceedings — a published report of a conference or meeting of a society or congress, frequently accompanied by abstracts or texts of the papers presented there (see also congress report).
pseudonym — pen name; nom de plume.
quarto (4°, 4to) — the size of a piece of paper cut four from a sheet, or a page size about 12 inches/30 centimeters high.
rastrology — the study of musical staves drawn by hand using a rastrum (Latin, "rake"), a pen with five or more points used to draw one or more staves at a time; the comparison of differences and irregularities between the lines and staves thus drawn may lead to conclusions such as probable date, identity of the scribe, etc., of a manuscript.
recto (r) — the side of a folio that is to be read first, i.e., the right-hand page (e.g., "fol. 2r"; see also verso).
reprint edition — a later unaltered printing of a work that ordinarily is no longer in print, often issued by another publisher who specializes in these editions, such as Da Capo or Dover (compare facsimile, revised edition).
reprography — the process of copying documents by xerography, photography, etc.
review — (a) a writing which gives a critical assessment of something, such as a written work or musical performance; (b) a term often used in titles of scholarly periodicals (e.g., Performance Practice Review, La revue musicale).
revised edition — an edition of a work incorporating major revisions by the author or an editor and often supplementary matter designed to bring it up-to-date (compare reprint edition).
serial — any publication usually appearing at regular intervals, including periodicals, annuals (yearbooks), newspapers, proceedings, etc.
shelflist — a bibliographical record of a library collection in call-number order.
siglum (pl.: sigla) — a letter or letters with or without numbers used to identify a manuscript or printed source, library, or archive (see The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, "Sources [Pre-1500]").
sources, primary and secondary — a primary source is a composition, letter, or document by a composer, author, or some other person, or any document dating from the historical period in question that gives the words of the witnesses or recorders of an event; a secondary source is second- or third-hand information and may be based on a primary source.
stacks — a library term for the main area in a library where books are shelved. Stacks are either "open," if the general public is admitted to them, or "closed," if it is not.
stemmatics — from stemma (Latin, "garland, wreath"); the genealogical study of musical or literary manuscripts.
thematic catalog — a list or index of compositions, usually by a single composer rather than a collection or repertory of music, in which each composition or movement is identified by an incipit(compare catalog, catalogue, definition b).
transcription — (a) the transliteration of an early work into modern musical notation; (b) the process or result of adapting a musical composition (usually instrumental) to a medium other than its original one, which may vary from little more than a transference from one medium to another to a modification of the original necessitated by the change of medium (compare arrangement, edition).
treatise — a learned, formal writing on a subject, usually in book form (see also monograph).
union catalog — a library catalog listing the holdings of a group of cooperating libraries (see catalog, catalogue, definition a).
Urtext — original text, often a prototype from which later variants (texts, compositions, etc.) are derived.
verso (v) — the side of a folio that is to be read second, i.e., the reverse side or left-hand page (e.g., "fol. 2v"; see also recto).
watermark — a manufacturer's identifying mark or design embedded in a sheet of paper, resulting from different thicknesses in the paper and visible when held up to light.
yearbook — a publication issued annually, such as the Bach-Jahr buch or "Recherches" sur la musique franqaise classique, that contains scholarly contributions and information, often limited to a specific area.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
1. Introductory Materials
Part I: Sources of Literature about Music and Musicians
2. General Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs, and Guides
3. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
4. Journals and Periodicals and Their Indexes
5. Area Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs, and Guides 1: Fields of Musical Study
6. Area Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs, and Guides 2: Musicians, Instruments, and Repertories
Part II: Sources of Music and Recordings
7. Sources of Music
8. Discographies and Recordings
Indexes
Index of Authors, Editors, Compilers, Translators, and Composers
Index of Titles