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Music Bibliography and Research / Musx 511 Fall 20 Ui / Lhsom Dr. Barry T. Bilderback

This document discusses resources for music research, including dissertations and literature reviews. It provides information on indexes of completed dissertations, such as Dissertation Abstracts International. It also describes online databases that contain dissertation citations and abstracts, such as ProQuest. Finally, it provides guidance on conducting a literature review, including establishing a position and demonstrating how a new project fits into existing academic conversations.

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Music Bibliography and Research / Musx 511 Fall 20 Ui / Lhsom Dr. Barry T. Bilderback

This document discusses resources for music research, including dissertations and literature reviews. It provides information on indexes of completed dissertations, such as Dissertation Abstracts International. It also describes online databases that contain dissertation citations and abstracts, such as ProQuest. Finally, it provides guidance on conducting a literature review, including establishing a position and demonstrating how a new project fits into existing academic conversations.

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Music Bibliography and Research / MusX 511

Fall 20
UI / LHSOM
Dr. Barry T. Bilderback

(Class Organizer):

Thursday, 29 November 2020

1. Dissertations
2. Literature Review

DISSERTATIONS:

A formal treatise submitted in partial fulfillment of a terminal (usually doctoral) program.


Since its inception in 1951, there have been two primary series of Doctoral Dissertations in
Musicology listing dissertations completed and in progress.

The International Directory lists dissertations in progress not only directly related to music
education but on a wide range of other musical topics as well, including:
Biography
Church Music
Humanities and the arts
Ethnomusicology
Jazz

The Music Theory Online Dissertation Index is a listing of in-progress and completed
dissertations that have appeared in Music Theory Online. Each entry is linked to an abstract and
a table of contents.

Dissertation Abstracts International began in 1938 as Microfilm Abstracts of American


dissertations and broadened to its present international status in 1969. It stands as a guide to
dissertations in all fields, to which there are both author and keyword-in-title index.

ProQuest Information and Learning now maintains online searchable databases of dissertation
citations and abstracts.

INDEXES:

Adkins, Cecil and Alis Dickinson, eds. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. 7th North
American ed. /2nd International ed. (1st ser., cumulative ed.) Philadelphia: American
Musicological Society / International Musicological Society 1984. First published in
1951.
________. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. 2nd ser., 1st cumulative ed. Philadelphia:
American Musicological Society / International Musicological Society 1990. Supps., 1991 --.

Dissertation Abstracts International. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1938 --.

Dissertation Abstracts Online and ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Subject, title, and author indexes to every US dissertation accepted at accredited institutions
since 1861. Abstracts are included for doctoral records from July 1980 to the present. Abstracts
are included for masters theses from 1988 to present. Citations and abstracts from dissertations
worldwide are included from 1988 to the present.

International Directory of Approved Music Education Doctoral Dissertations in Progress. Ed.


Richard J. Colwell. Council for Research in Music Education, University of Illinois.
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1989 --.

Music Theory Online Dissertation Index.

Lists announcements of completed and in-progress dissertations that have appeared in Music
Theory Online. Each entry is linked to an abstract and table of contents.

Literature Review

-Establishes an author’s own position on a subject by providing an overview of previously


published scholarship.

-Demonstrates where the work is entering into a current academic conversation on a given
subject

-Articulates the purpose of a new project; generally filling a gap and(or) providing a further step

Opening statement:
1.Identify the way literature ties into topic
2.Classify literature under “groupings.”

HOME ASSIGNMENT: Due 12 November 2020

Assignment parameters: 2 books, 5 journals, 3 scores, 3 recordings

Set up sources in bibliographic format. Follow Turabian formatting and for each example,
provide both the bibliography (B:) and footnote format (N:) in alphabetical order as they
would be listed in the bibliography. Be sure to include, for your article, extent works
(books), journal articles, electronic source materials, and scores in the single bibliography
HOWEVER– for the sake of this assignment – provide a separate section for the
discography.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Source 1:
B: format
N: format

DISCOGRAPHY

Source 1:
B: format
N: format

EXAMPLE (for assignment provide #1 for all footnotes and provide TBD for page
numbers – where applicable / in the bibliography, journals include complete pages of
article / when accessed electronically provide URL:

Source 1:
Kitamura, Katie. A Separation. New York: Riverhead Books, 2017.

1. Katie Kitamura, A Separation (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), TBD.

Source 2:
Pérez, Ashley Hope. “Material Morality and the Logic of Degrees in Diderot’s Le neveu de
Rameau.” Modern Philology 114, no. 4 (May 2017): 872–98.
https://doi.org/10.1086/689836.

1. Ashley Hope Pérez, “Material Morality and the Logic of Degrees in Diderot’s Le
neveu de Rameau,” Modern Philology 114, no. 4 (May 2017): TBD,
https://doi.org/10.1086/689836.

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