THE SHORT GUIDE SERIES Under the Bdtorship of Srv BARNET ‘Marcia Stupes [A Short Gulde to Writing about Art, Eighth Edition ‘BY SYUMAN BARNET [A Short Gulde to Writing about Literature, Tenth Eatin by SvaN BARNET AND Wutaas E. CAIN A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, Sith Editon sr Jaw A. Prwenie |A Short Guide to Writing about Social Scences, Fourth Edition tr Lit Cums A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry, Second Eaton ‘o Henpen BeaLt anb Jou THMBUR A Short Guide o Writing about Film, Sith Elition pr Timor J [A Short Guide to Writing about Music, Second Elton tt Jonamiiay D. BELLMAN A Short Guide to Wrting about Poychology ‘By Dana 8. Dunn A Short Guide to Writing about Music SECOND EDITION JONATHAN D. BELLMAN ‘Uncen of Norther ColoradoFor my parents ‘Samuel sing Bellman tering tothe undergraduates of he tateof Calor: Jeanne Lsker eliman, ‘oho tght hr ene ‘and my wife and som Deborah Ann Kauffman and Benjomin Howard Belman— ‘mii vita carores sunt‘ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I Permisins fr quoted materi were rico rod by Oxford Uri: CC ——— WRITING ABOUT MUSIC — ‘Ther so much tlk aba msc and ote said. lie thet tod oe a allup tot and should fd hat they ere sage wld mang gtr! WORDS ABOUT MUSIC: WHY? gc Se Rela Mave ery aw Th Nth Cory, Rath Soe{sts pint in reading aboot how to wre ao ely shut ths book re we sore what Pater seeks tobe lovely, oto prdce certain emotions within sentative images? “The questions raked by Peters seemingly ler aseron strate the need fr wting about mse. They ao nat why is uch chy ot what ths contbation may ot be appre sd teacher, worwhle easeIndus cannot property be staid text Ina ntradictory noe, ee li ‘apy ln the ordinary sense” he ator of famous example of such @ sues at we dca specif types of writing ccs Tncvial can even dnappen ito the histori fog fr lack of recor cxampl, wile pe [soy of Florentine Renassnce carl sons {essity del not on the conpacrs bit on the sngshersees ad hee fom on the majors of ‘wllofen bean important cle Fora sider an be sean the est eas) read and asi, nd they spat the entire sil iced readership. Style Study Sol tes he a he of depres mae meter ad hyn song, nd other basing ir leet become aay stable for examin tated by exanple than by desertion, 30 let es lance hile fk sony. "Go Tell Ant hod” (shown i fom ft and bleed sling, complement thet is soe wae ‘jeu Bn, Bren he man Coney, 2 (a: Lt, Bows TesiGo Tell Aunt Rhody rdf technical vay, Accord reading. rot only Becta the density ofthesubject mater, but ao boas of the neces for Frequent reference to score examples. The best analyser are writen bythe witha good ‘elo experience with mused. Chapter adresse the chalengee of iting asia ans Performance Study iscsi of the way muse works in performance are cent owing ‘on musi ebjct. Concer review oes on hi pet, ba ny ‘a wting gains subtatally by viewing muse within» perfomance ‘eter All spect of performance are flew: how mae walla ‘cumin of he dcp that consideration of hata perfomance ‘Srumutice is ncesary fora sold understanding of ary sid sp and ther cot, a the ways in whch mane tations, bth (Sela and eure, hve been undestodsnd ened in performance. COrganological, Archival, and Source Studies rgmologtd studless ote el ‘al aspets and questions of strumental development. Archi tudes ‘fess msi flat weve centres old and suring principally in ‘manscrpts they ar socalled bese the sie and rested materials (ogy receipt, court and church records, bapa ceriestes, death ‘notaa) suv princpally io archives Source nudes emmine such mi ‘eal documents a compostonal selches and variant maniac andops om bth the pie ctl judg and te reasoning that proceeds from ae from mere sce cave ees predat that Marxist Criticism on the polar economic and pital models of Marist stig saya challenge the cried perspective Then WA. Idi ote Sol of M93 Bon ‘on seeing to expire the sump (Nee ery rT 3 3the concert fer rte in hr study of Moza plano concert“These silences suggest something deeper thn the far labels “ppresed wees a arealaed pyr” In astay ofthe seventoenth- a Stroh, nscale Hay Ste” Won Mag Mae Te Re al oh tmpeoplesin other words, colonies and colonaed, The primary stating fot of ths tical stance wae Edward Sails bok rina (1978) ‘hich rally and ceathely reinterpreted the word ortetalom tel ‘neta had prooulydesigated a roup of lings, Mtoe fd geogrphved academic decpines, but Sad saw asthe Ibe or entire ctrl plsophy. thesvi ele Se gh orp2 WRITING ABOUT MUSIC BY, AND FOR, THOSE WHO CANNOT | (NECESSARILY) READ IT Smo Fam ocmont nds of msl wong. ighy desirable nd aay aan gr tobe no ist am experienced liter but mica erate Whether