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Music (MUH 530 Bibliography & Research Skills)

This guide provides an overview of the Chicago/Turabian citation style.

Live Performances

Cite live performances only in notes.

Example

1. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Music, conductor, and Yefim Bronfman, pianist, Solemn Prelude by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, and Symphony No. 2 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, September 22, 2022.

Videos and Podcasts

Cite videos and podcasts only in notes.

Example

2. Robert Gupta, “Between Music and Medicine,” posted by TED on YouTube, October 2, 2012, lecture, 16:27, https://youtu.be/qx6KK-eT4qw.

Sound Recordings

Cite sound recordings only in notes. The title of the album should be in italics. Individual selections should be in quotation marks. Indicate the medium of the sound recording, such as CD or streaming audio. This guide lists only a couple of examples. For more details, consult the Turabian style guide.

Notes

##. Composer's First Name Last Name, "Title of Work," Performer's First Name Last Name, recorded (or released) Dare, Label, Catalog Number, Medium of the Recording.

##. Composer's First Name Last Name, Album Title, Performer's First Name Last Name, recorded (or released) Dare, Label, Catalog Number, Medium of the Recording.

Examples

3. Gustav Mahler, "Symphony No. 6 'Tragic',” Leonard Bernstein, conductor, and New York Philharmonic, recorded on May 2 & 6, 1967, Sony Classical SMK 60208, CD.

4. Johannes Brahms, Complete Piano Trios, Trio Wanderer, released September 2005, Harmonia Mundi, HMC 901915, CD.

5. Ludwig van Beethoven, "Beethoven Seventh Symphony," Eugene Ormandy, conductor and the Philadelphia Orchestra, released April 6, 2021, Sony Classical 886448890850, online streaming,  https://lynn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/streamw.asp?ver=2.0&s=6963%2FLynn19%2F8656214

Musical Scores

Cite musical scores both in notes and the bibliography, like books.

Examples

5. Gustav Mahler, Symphony Nr. 1: in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (Fassung 1909/1910) nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe (1992) (Wien: Universal Edition, 1992), XIII.

Mahler, Gustav. Symphony Nr. 1: in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (Fassung 1909/1910) nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe (1992). Wien: Universal Edition, 1992.