Research Methods and Writing about Music

Catalog description

Students will learn how to discover various bibliographic resources in music, including important music encyclopedias, domestic and foreign historical journals and newspapers, important manuscripts, and other sources. Students will learn how to write a paper about a specific topic based on this research, which will involve conceptual and critical thinking skills as well as deductive thought processes in order to come up with a sophisticated thesis statement. The student will then learn how to write a paper based on this process. In writing the paper, the student will include organizational skills, correct methods in citing sources, proper grammar and syntax, as well as an effective style. These writing issues will be geared specifically towards writing about music.