WRITTEN ASSIGMENT #3
The reference section of the Hunter College library is located on the fourth floor. One of the books shelved there is Sourcebook for Research in Music by Phillip D. Crabtree and Donald H. Foster (ML 113 .C68 1993). This book is a bibliographic guide to reference books and general sources of information about music. General surveys of music history, many of which are published in series (usually with one book per period), are listed in chapter 5. These books are useful both as sources of information and as sources of references to additional books on the topics they cover.
As new information becomes available or circumstances cause widespread changes in people's understanding of a subject, the information in books goes out of date. Many books are therefore revised and published in updated editions. It is important to use the most recent edition of any book that has been published in more than one edition. If a book has appeared in more than one edition, bibliography and footnote references must include the edition number. Do not use the designation "1st ed." for a book that has been published in only one edition. Examples:
Roche, Jerome. The Madrigal. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
1. Jerome Roche, The Madrigal, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 15.
Some books have more than one author. In a bibliography entry referring to a book of this type, put the last name before the first name for the first author only. Example:
Fenlon, Iain, and James Haar. The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century: Sources and Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
1. Iain Fenlon and James Haar, The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century: Sources and Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 61.
If two or more consecutive footnotes in a paper refer to the same source, the bibliographic information in all but the first is replaced by the word "Ibid." (an abbreviation for the Latin ibidem, meaning "in the same place"). All of the footnotes include page numbers. Example:
1. Jerome Roche, The Madrigal, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 15.
2. Ibid., pp. 71-74.
Assignment #3: Questions
1. (10 pts.) Locate Sourcebook for Research in Music in the reference section of the library, and scan the list of series histories on pp. 110-15. Who wrote the books on the Renaissance in the Norton History of Music Series and the Prentice Hall History of Music Series?
2. Locate the most recent edition of A History of Westem Music by Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca in the Hunter library.
a. (10 pts.) Look at the score of the L'homme armé song in example 5.5 on p. 146. Copy the translation of the words of the song, and put them in quotation marks.
b. (10 pts.) Footnote question 2a. (Call the footnote no. 1.)
c. (10 pts.) Photocopy the song and sing or play it. Note that it has three sections. ("Da capo" means to repeat the first section after the last printed one.) Describe the form with letters, using one letter for each section.
3. Locate Renaissance Music by Allan Atlas in the Hunter library.
a. (10 pts.) Read the paragraph beginning at the bottom of p. 119 and the section called "Why the Cyclic Cantus-Firmus Mass?" on pp. 127-28. Explain briefly the two reasons why the cyclic cantus-firmus Mass may have originated.
b. (10 pts.) Footnote question 3a. (Call the footnote no. 2.)
c. (10 pts.) Read the first two complete paragraphs on p. 150. In a single sentence, explain what a song about the armed man might have had to do with the Christian religion in the late 15th century. State the point in general terms, without naming specific individuals or institutions.
d. (10 pts.) Footnote question 3c. (Call the footnote no. 3. Remember that you have cited the same source in the preceding footnote.)
4. Examine the score of the Agnus Dei of Dufay's Missa L'homme armé in the Stolba anthology and answer the following, then listen to the piece following the score.
a. (10 pts.) Sing or play the tenor part in mm. 1-39. How many times does the complete L'Homme armé song appear in those measures?
b. (10 pts.) Sing or play the tenor part in mm. 75-131. Here the song appears twice: first backward (with the notes in reverse order), then forward twice as fast. In which measure does the second (forward) statement begin? (The first two notes of this statement are combined into a single note.)