Style Sheet for Word and Music Studies

Word and Music Studies basically follows the MLA guidelines.

Format

Main Title

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Subtitle Author’s Name, Place Beginning of text ...

Chapter headings

Chapter headings should take the following form:

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  • Captions should be numbered and in italics, e.g.:
    Example 3: Robert Schumann, "Der Dichter spricht" (from Kinderscenen, op. 15), bar 12.
  • Pagination: in pencil only

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Bibliography

Full references to sources used should be listed alphabetically at the end of the text. If more than one publication by an author is documented, the publications are listed chronologically. The bibliography should take the following form:

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References

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Brown, Calvin S. Music and Literature: A Comparison of the Arts (1948). 2nd ed. Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1987.
—. "Musico-Literary Research in the Last Two Decades". Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 19 (1970): 5-27.
—. "Theoretische Grundlagen zum Studium der Wechselverhältnisse zwischen Literatur und Musik". Steven Paul Scher, ed. Literatur und Musik: Ein Handbuch zur Theorie und Praxis eines komparatistischen Grenzgebietes. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1984. 28-39.
Lagerroth, Ulla-Britta, Hans Lund, Erik Hedling, eds. Interart Poetics: Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 24. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.