Foundations in music bibliography

As more and more music literature is published each year, librarians, scholars, and bibliographers are turning to music bibliography to retain control over the flood of information. Based on the Conference of Music Bibliography, this timely book provides vital information on the most important aspects of the scholarly practice of music bibliography. This book provides librarians with great insight into bibliographic issues they face every day including bibliographic control of primary and secondary sources, the emergence of enumerative and analytical bibliography, bibliographic instruction, and bibliographic lacunae. This book features the perspectives of prominent scholars and music librarians on contemporary issues in music bibliography often encountered by music librarians. It offers practical insights and includes chapters on teaching students how to use microcomputer programs to search music bibliographies, organizing a graduate course in music bibliography, and researching film music bibliography. The book also provides a supplement to Steven D. Westcott's A Comprehensive Bibliography of Music for Film and Television. This insightful volume demonstrates the many ways that bibliography relates music publications to each other and endows grander meaning to individual scholarly observations. Some of the fascinating topics covered by this book include: the history of thematic catalogs, indexing Gregorian chant manuscripts, general principles of bibliographic instruction, analyses of Debussy, discographies, musical ephemera and their importance in various types of musicological research, bibliographical lacunae (i.e. lack of access to visual sources, failure to control primary sources, and lack of communication with the rest of the performing arts). This book shows librarians how bibliography can be used to help music students and researchers find the information they need among the innumerable available sources. It is an indispensable asset to the shelves of all music reference libraries that wish to provide their patrons with the latest bibliographic tools.

Papers presented at a conference held Oct. 1986, at Northwestern University.

"Has also been published as Music reference services quarterly, volume 2, numbers 1/2 3/4 1993"--Title page verso.

A core literature for music bibliography / David Fenske -- The problem of definitive identification in the indexing of hymn tunes / Nicholas Temperley -- The cataloging of chant manuscripts as an aid to critical editions and chant history / Theodore Karp -- The Rossini thematic catalog : when does bibliographical access become bibliographical excess? / Philip Gossett -- Italian music and lyric poetry of the Renaissance / Michael A. Keller -- Discography : discipline and musical ally / Michael Gray -- Varieties of analysis : through the analytical sieve and beyond / Arthur Wenk -- Musical ephemera : some thoughts about types, controls, access / James B. Coover -- Reference lacunae : results of an informal survey of what librarians want / Ann Basart -- The bio-bibliography series / Don Hixon -- Three bibliographic lacunae / Susan T. Sommer.

The varieties and uses of music bibliography / Donald W. Krummel -- The thematic catalogue in music : further reflections on its past, present, and future / Barry S. Brook, Richard J. Viano -- Scholarly editions : their character and bibliographic description / Keith E. Mixter -- "Perfuming the air with music" : the need for film music bibliogra…