Assignment title

Student name – Student number

Course and year

Class / elective

Date:

Tutor:

Word Count:

I certify that the coursework that I have submitted is my own unaided work, and
that I have read, understood and complied with the guidelines on plagiarism as set
out in the programme handbook. I understand that the School may make use of
plagiarism detection software and that my work may therefore be stored on a
database which is accessible to other users of the same software. I certify that the
word count declared is correct.
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The main body of your text, obviously, goes here. If you are using
information from, e.g. a book, article, or webpage then you must put
a reference to your source in a footnote at the bottom of the page,
like this.1 This applies even if you are paraphrasing.

If you are using a short quote ‘it can be integrated into your text,
between quotation marks, like this.’2 If, however, you are quoting a
long passage directly, then the quotation should be inset like this:

Here is a long quote. I have used the “Quote” style which has
selected a smaller font size and indented the margins. Note
that you don’t need quotation marks, but you still need to cite
your source.3

If you are using a musical example, it should appear within the text,
and be referenced from the text (Example 1).

Example 1: Handel. Agrippina. Act 2 Scene IV, ‘E tu, Poppea’.

This is a sub-section
Sub-sections can be useful for structuring your essay and clarifying
the division of ideas that may not otherwise flow naturally in prose.

The final section of your essay will be the bibliography, in which you
list all the sources that you have used. These will, of course, include

1
McGuire, ‘Edward Elgar: “Modern” or “Modernist?” Construction of an Aesthetic
Identity in the British Music Press, 1895-1934’.
2
Kremer, ‘Searching for Ludwig’.
3
Collins, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge.

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every source cited in your footnotes as well as any other texts which
have influenced your argument. A couple of examples are shown
below. Please see the School document, Taught Programmes
Referencing Handbook, available on Moodle or the Intranet for
further details.

You may wish to use bibliographic software to help manage and

generate your references, ensuring consistency in style across your
document. This will also save you a vast amount of time typing
references and checking formats in the BMus Handbook.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Word still does not support the footnote

style of referencing prevalent in writing on music. Zotero –
http://zotero.org – is free and cross-platform. It offers an add-in for
Word that I have used to generate the sample references in this
document and the bibliography below.

Bibliography
Collins, H. Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2010.

Kremer, Gidon. ‘Searching for Ludwig’, 2015.

http://www.kremeratabaltica.com/searching-for-ludwig/.
Accessed 20 August 2017.
McGuire, Charles Edward. ‘Edward Elgar: “Modern” or “Modernist?”
Construction of an Aesthetic Identity in the British Music
Press, 1895-1934’. The Musical Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2008):
8–38.