Writing About Music

This is the "Holoman" handbook. Find models and guidelines for numerous decisions you'll make on matters such as title forms, and capitalization foreign language conventions to preparation and captioning of musical examples. Contexts include written prose and program formatting. Guidance on music-specific citation practices are included.

This handbook is known as "Donohue." It's similar to Holoman but with additional guidance when it comes to the use of notes, pitches, and octave delineations as well as letters and numbers employed to describe form and harmony. A glossary of typographic terms is included.

This is known as "Herbert." It's similar to Holoman and Donahue, but, with more extensive citation examples, and somewhat greater attention to writing for jazz, popular music, world musics, and ethnography. Some of its opening material reviews considerations and techniques relating to music research generally, too.