| 1. | Introduction | 1 |
| Purpose | 1 |
| Types of Papers | 2 |
| Role of Scholarship in a Graduate Music Program | 4 |
| Information and Ideas | 5 |
| Scholarship | 5 |
| Graduate Students as Scholars | 6 |
| Accuracy, Authenticity, Simplicity, and Clarity | 7 |
| Selecting a Topic | 9 |
| Strategies for Library Research | 10 |
| Types of Searches | 10 |
| Sources for Books | 11 |
| Sources for Articles | 11 |
| Dissertations | 12 |
| Recordings | 12 |
| Scores | 12 |
| Web Sources | 13 |
| Limitations | 13 |
| 2. | Documentation Systems and Issues | 15 |
| Systems of Documentation | 16 |
| Selecting a System | 16 |
| Selecting a Style Manual | 18 |
| Some Ethical Concerns | 19 |
| 3. | The Proposal Process | 22 |
| Introduction | 22 |
| Purpose of the Proposal | 22 |
| Proposal Content | 23 |
| The Proposal Process | 28 |
| Doctoral Essay Proposal | 28 |
| Doctoral Dissertation Proposal | 29 |
| Communicating with Your Advisory Committee | 29 |
| 4. | Master of Music Recital Papers | 30 |
| Content and Organization of Recital Papers | 30 |
| History | 33 |
| Theoretical Analysis | 34 |
| Performance Issues | 36 |
| Committee Selection and Contributions | 37 |
| 5. | Format Issues | 39 |
| General Format Issues | 39 |
| Formatting Frontispieces | 41 |
| Special Format Issues for Music Papers | 43 |
| 6. | Documentation: Format Concerns | 45 |
| Sample Documentation for Recordings (Turabian) | 45 |
| Basic Form | 46 |
| Title with Genre Name | 46 |
| One Selection from a Collection | 47 |
| Excerpt from One Piece from a Collection | 48 |
| Collection Entered under Title | 48 |
| Jazz Recording Entered under Performer | 49 |
| Jazz Collection (Entire Work Cited) | 50 |
| Jazz Excerpt from a Collection | 50 |
| Video-recording (Spoken) | 51 |
| Citing Notes Accompanying a Recording | 51 |
| Sample Documentation for Scores (Turabian) | 52 |
| Basic Form | 53 |
| Score with Librettist and Translator | 53 |
| Song in a Collection, and Reprint of Original Edition | 54 |
| Collection Entered under Editor | 54 |
| Sample Documentation for Doctoral Dissertations or Essays (Turabian) | 55 |
| Sample Documentation for an Article from an Encyclopedia (Turabian) | 56 |
| Sample Documentation for Electronic Documents (Turabian) | 57 |
| On-line Article in Scholarly Journal | 57 |
| On-line Article in a Magazine | 58 |
| On-line Article in a Newspaper | 59 |
| On-line Abstracts | 59 |
| Professional Web Site | 60 |
| E-mail Communication | 61 |
| Sample Documentation for Recording (APA Style) | 61 |
| Basic Form (with Genre Name) | 62 |
| Basic Form (One Piece from a Collection) | 62 |
| Title with Genre Name | 62 |
| One Piece from a Collection | 62 |
| Excerpt from a Piece from a Collection | 62 |
| Collection Entered under Title | 63 |
| Jazz Recording Entered under Performer | 63 |
| Jazz Collection (Entire Work Cited) | 63 |
| Excerpt from a Jazz Collection | 63 |
| Video-recording (Spoken) | 63 |
| Citing Notes Accompanying a Recording | 64 |
| Sample for Documentation of Scores (APA Reference List Style) | 64 |
| Basic Form | 64 |
| Score with Librettist and Translator | 64 |
| Song in a Collection, Foreign Title, and Reprint Original Edition | 64 |
| Collection Entered under Editor | 64 |
| Sample Documentation for Doctoral Dissertations or Essays (APA) | 65 |
| Doctoral Dissertations or Essays Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts and Obtained from University Microfilm | 65 |
| Doctoral Dissertations or Essays Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts and Obtained from the University | 65 |
| Sample Documentation for an Article in an Encyclopedia (APA) | 65 |
| Sample Documentation for Electronic Documents (APA) | 66 |
| Basic Form | 66 |
| On-line Article in Scholarly Journal | 67 |
| On-line Article in a Magazine | 67 |
| On-line Article in a Newspaper | 67 |
| On-line Abstracts | 67 |
| Professional Web Site | 67 |
| E-mail Communication | 68 |
| 7. | Enhancing a Text Through the use of Simple Music Notation | 69 |
| Adding Music Notation to Microsoft Word | 69 |
| Using Aspects of Simple Music Notation in the Text | 71 |
| Pitch-related Aspects | 71 |
| Rhythm-related Aspects | 75 |
| Other Aspects of Notation | 76 |
| 8. | Incorporating Musical Examples, Tables, and Figures | 78 |
| Musical Examples | 80 |
| Tables | 81 |
| Figures | 81 |
| References | 83 |
| Notes | 85 |
| Appendix A | Sample Introduction for a Recital Paper | 88 |
| Appendix B | Sample System of Headings | 91 |
| Appendix C | Sample Frontispieces | 94 |
| Appendix D | Setting up a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word | 98 |
| Appendix E | Key Stroke Charts: Anastasia and Petrucci Fonts | 101 |
| Appendix F | Young's Summary of Staveless Notation Systems | 104 |
| Appendix G | Procedures for Inserting a Computer-generated Musical Example | 106 |
| Appendix H | Sample Musical Examples | 108 |
| Appendix I | Sample Tables | 113 |
| Appendix J | Sample Figures | 118 |
