Hi MLAers - here are the results of my query to the list regarding style
manuals and books on how to do research. The citations for the books listed
follow the results. Warning! They do not follow any style manual, DRA is the
format I copied and pasted. Thanks for your responses.
Holly Borne
Butler University
Bo...@Butler.edu
Questions:
1. What Style Manual does the music dept use at your university?
2 none
5 Turabian
1 Turbian and Chicago
1 Irvine plus Turabian
1 no recommendation just be consistent
1 Chicago and Turabian; for music education American Psychological
Association
1 APA (for music education); Turabian for Performance Studies and
Composition/History
1 Chicago and Wingell
1 "Gave up on relying on one single style guide, none is completely
satisfactory"
2. What book do you recommend for instructing undergraduate students on how
to write papers and do research in the library?
1 Turabian or Chicago, scour discographies for examples of citing recorded
material
1 Druesdow, or faculty use their own handouts
1 Wingell
2 Turabian
3 Rely on bibliographic instruction or music research course
1 Druesdow
1 Wingell and Druesdow
1 The Craft of Research (Univ. of Chicago Press) -
NOTE: does anyone have a citation for The Craft of Research?
Title: A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations
/ Kate L. Turabian.
Author: Turabian, Kate L.
Grossman, John, 1924-
Bennett, Alice, 1938-
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Edition: 6th ed. / rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett.
Title: Writing about music : a style book for reports and
theses / by Demar Irvine.
Author: Irvine, Demar.
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1968.
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Title: Writing about music : a style sheet from the editors
of 19th-century music / D. Kern Holoman.
Author: Holoman, D. Kern, 1947-
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988.
Title: The Chicago manual of style.
Author: University of Chicago. Press.
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982-
Title: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Author: American Psychological Association.
Published: Washington, D.C. : The Association, 1983.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Title: Library research guide to music : illustrated search
strategy and sources / John E. Druesedow, Jr.
Author: Druesedow, John E.
Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pierian Press, c1982.
Title: MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gibaldi.
Author: Gibaldi, Joseph, 1942-
Modern Language Association of America.
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1995.
Edition: 4th ed.
Title: Writing about music: an introductory guide / Richard Wingell.
Author: Wingell, Richard.
Published: N.J. : Englewood Cliffs, 1990.
