Music 242

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MUSIC 242: RESEARCH/ANALYSIS PROJECT

Locating scores and recordings:

I. Begin by locating an authoritative version of your composer's score; you will want to consult a scholarly edition of the score, if available. In addition to works list appended to your composer's article in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, you may want to use:

Heyer, Anna Harriet. Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents. 1980. REF ML 113.H4 1980; Hill, George R. and Norris L. Stephens. Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets, & Monuments of Music. 1997. REF ML 113.H55 1997
II. To locate recordings, use Sage. Remember to use the thematic catalog number assigned to your work (if it has one) if possible. For example: to find a score and recording of Mozart's Fantasia in F minor, K. 608, type:: phonorecords ; or S> scores or S> scores

Fulfilling the Assignment:

III. Begin your research with background information about your composer and his/her work, putting your piece in context. Also, consult bibliographies to locate other information on your topic. In addition to your text, good starting sources include:

REF ML 100.N48 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2001.

(and online via library web page) Excellent for overview articles as well as great bibliographies.

REF ML 128.A7D5 1991 Diamond, Harold J. Music Analyses: An Annotated Guide to the Literature. 1991.

A superb annotated bibliography of music criticism appropriate to the music generalist and undergraduate student. Arranged by composer with subdivisions of general articles and articles devoted to individual works.

IV. For pre-1940 criticism, you may want to consult the views of other composers, historically influential scholars, contemporaries of your composer, or even letters and other primary source materials by the composer his/herself. The New Grove bibliographies, biographies, etc. will all provide clues in locating these sources; a sampling of possible titles is listed below:

Beethoven: Impressions by his Contemporaries. ML 410.B4B28 1967; Berlioz, Hector. Mozart, Weber and Wagner: With Various Essays on Musical Subjects. ML 410.B5A3; Burney, Charles. An Eighteenth-Century Musical Tour... ML 195.B91 and .B92 1959; Hanslick, Eduard. Music Criticisms, 1846-99. ML 60.H352; Kodolin, Irving. The Composer as Listener. ML 90.K63; Morgenstern, Sam. Composers on Music: An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland.; ML 90.M6; Norman, Gertrude and Miriam Shrifte. Letters of Composers: An Anthology. ML 90.N67; Plantinga, Leon B. Schumann as Critic. ML 410.S5P6; Schoenberg, Arnold. Style and Idea. ML 60.S36 1975; Schumann, Robert. On Music and Musicians. ML 410.S5A14; Slonimsky, Nicolas. Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time.; ML 3785.S5; Strunk, Oliver. Source Readings in Music History. ML 160.S89 1998; Taurskin, Richard and Piero Weiss. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. ML 160.M865; Tovey, Donald Francis, Sir. Beethoven. ML 410.B4T6 1951; ________. Essays in Musical Analysis. MT 90.T6; Weber, Carl Maria von. Writings on Music. ML 60.W3713; Weiss, Piero. Letters of Composers through Six Centuries. ML 90.W44

V. The article on "Criticism" in New Grove also provides an excellent overview of the development of critical thinking about music.

VI. Thematic indexes of composers' works are also helpful. Some of the most important separately published thematic indexes in our collection include:: Bach, C.P.E.: Helm, E. Eugene. Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.; REF ML 134.B1A2 1989; Beethoven: Kinsky, Georg. Das Werk Beethovens: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner sämtlichen vollendeten Kompositionen. REF ML 134.B4K5; Boccherini,: Gerard, Yves. Thematic, Bibliographical and Critical Catalogue of the Works of Luigi Boccherini. REF ML 134.B63G5 1969; Haydn: Hoboken, Anthony van. Joseph Haydn: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis. REF ML 134.H272H6; Mozart: Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von. Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amade Mozarts. REF ML 134.M9K53 1969; Schubert: Deutsch, Otto Erich, Franz Schubert: Thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge.; REF ML 134.S38D4 1978; Thematic indexes can also be incorporated in scholarly biographies of composers. Be sure to look carefully in Sage for notes about thematic indexes, bibliographies, etc. Also consult New Grove lists of works and bibliographies.

Miscellaneous German Terms Used in Thematic Catalogs, etc.

(See also Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus REF ML 108.T476 and
Horst Leuchtmann’s Dictionary of Terms in Music REF ML 108.W73 1998 )


VII. For post 1960 studies and analyses of your work, you may want to supplement what you have found via New Grove and Diamond (step III) with periodical indexes. Try:

VIII. When you get to the point of writing your paper, consult Wingell's Writing about Music: An Introductory Guide (REF ML 3797.W54 2002) for information about formatting your work. Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers (REF ML 2369.T8 1996) as well as various online sources (online via the Music Library web page) may also be helpful.

IX. Two reminders:: 1. If you have questions, be sure to ask for help. Music Library reference office hours are posted on the librarians’ door. Please remember, we’re here to help.; 2. If you need to request materials from Interlibrary Loan, do it EARLY. It's a great system but can't work miracles. Count on at least a week's wait.

Good luck with your research!