Review Essay: Guides to Writing about Music

Kendra Leonard

Abstract

Guides to writing about music have become staples in courses on music history. This review covers three such books, by Bellman, Herbert, and Wingell, as well as RILM’s reference on musical terms and conventions. The review discusses the strengths or weaknesses of all four books in order to help an instructor decide what might be best for any particular course.

Author Biography

Kendra Leonard

Kendra Leonard is the author of The Conservatoire Américain: A History; Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations; and the editor of Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. In addition to teaching courses in music history, she has taught English composition and rhetoric and applied music. She is currently at work on projects on Louise Talma and music in early modern film.

Published

2011-07-26

Issue

Vol 2 No 1: (Fall 2011)

Section

Reviews

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