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Chicago Turabian?

Chicago/Turabian style is the citation format most common for music research.

What's the difference between Chicago Style and Chicago/Turabian style?

“Turabian is the student version of The Chicago Manual of Style, aimed at high school and college students who are writing papers, theses, and dissertations. The Chicago Manual of Style is aimed at professional scholars and publishers. Think of Turabian as Chicago for beginners.”[1]

[1] “Is Turabian Style the Same as Chicago Style?,” CMOS Shop Talk (blog), February 3, 2015, accessed November 1, 2017, http://cmosshoptalk.com/2015/02/03/for-students-is-turabian-style-the-same-as-chicago-style/.

Help with Music Citations

Citation examples (Chicago/Turabian style)

Essential elements of a citation

  • Author and other contributors
  • Title
    • Title of chapter or article "in quotation marks"
    • Book or journal title in italics
  • Publication information
    • Book = place, publisher, and date
    • Article = volume, issue, page number, and date

 

Order of elements

Footnote format (for books):

AuthorFirstName LastName, Title Title Title: Subtitle Subtitle (PublicationCity: Publisher, Date), PageNumbers.

 

Bibliography Format (for books):

AuthorLastName, FirstName. Title Title Title: Subtitle Subtitle. PublicationCity: Publisher, Date.

 

Examples in Footnote format:

1 J. Peter Burkholder, All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 35.

2 Mary Rasmussen, “The Case of Flutes in Holbein’s The Ambassadors,” Early Music 23, no. 1 (February 1995): 115.

3 Heinrich C. Koch, “On the Connection of Melodic Sections into Periods of Greater Length, or the Arrangements of Larger Compositions,” trans. by Nancy Kovaleff Baker, in Source Readings in Music History, ed. Margaret Murata and Oliver Strunk (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 811.

4 Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: Authoritative Score, Background, Context, Criticism, Analysis, ed. Kenneth Ross Hull (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000).

5 Domenico Scarlatti, Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 8, performed by Soyeon Lee, Naxos 8.570010, 2007, CD.

6 TED, “Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and Emotion Through Time,” YouTube video, 20:13, May 7, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD5ZKi-moMU.

7Christoph Wolff and Ulrich Leisinger, "Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel," Grove Music Online, ed. Deane Root, accessed May 10, 2018. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com

 

Examples in Bibliography format:

Brahms, Johannes. Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: Authoritative Score, Background, Context, Criticism, Analysis. Edited by Kenneth Ross Hull. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Burkholder, J. Peter. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Koch, Heinrich C. “On the Connection of Melodic Sections into Periods of Greater Length, or the Arrangements of Larger Compositions.” Translated by Nancy Kovaleff Baker. In Source Readings in Music History, edited by Margaret Murata and Oliver Strunk, 807-819. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Rasmussen, Mary. “The Case of Flutes in Holbein’s The Ambassadors.” Early Music 23, no. 1 (February 1995): 114–23.

Scarlatti, Domenico. Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 8. Performed by Soyeon Lee. Naxos 8.570010, 2007. CD.

TED. “Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time.” YouTube video, 20:13. May 7, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD5ZKi-moMU.

Wolff, Christoph, and Ulrich Leisinger. "Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel." Grove Music Online. Edited by Deane Root. Accessed May 10, 2018. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com

 

Use these scholarly websites to get help with your music citations:

 

You can also access the Chicago Manual of Style online (requires Chapman login):

 

Citation Management tools:

 

The definitive source for Chicago/Turabian style is A Manual for Writers Of Research Papers, Theses, And Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian, currently in its 9th edition. Unfortunately, this source is only available in print. You can find it in the library here: