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Referencing style - Chicago: Music Scores

A guide to using the Chicago 17th referencing style for footnotes and reference lists.

Music Scores

 

Material type Note (footnote) example

Subsequent note entry

(see CMOS 14:30)

 Bibliography example
Music Scores (print)

    15. James Ledger, Processions for String Quartet (Grosvenor Place, N.S.W: Australian Music Centre, 2011).

   Ledger, James. Processions for String Quartet. Grosvenor Place, N.S.W: Australian Music Centre, 2011.
Music Scores (print)

    15. Aaron Copland, Concerto, Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Harp and Piano), Reduction for Clarinet and Piano (New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1950), 10.

See: Chicago Manual of Style Online chapter 14, section 255.

   Copland, Aaron. Concerto, Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Harp and Piano). Reduction for Clarinet and Piano. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1950.
Music Scores (online)     15. Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 120, No.1, ed. Hans Gál (Germany: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1895), 3, https://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.library.uwa.edu.au/view/ work/bibliographic_entity|score_movement|464771.   Brahms, Johannes. Clarinet Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 120, No.1. Edited by Hans Gál. Germany: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1895. https://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.library.uwa.edu.au/ view/work/bibliographic_entity|score_movement|464771.
Music Scores (unpublished manuscript)

    15. Johann Sebastian Bach, "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!", BWV 208, score, ca. 1720-1739, D-B Mus. ms. Bach P 42, Faszikel 3, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, last modified 22 August 2017, https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00000866.

See: Chicago Manual of Style Online chapter 14, section 256.

   Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Last modified 22 August 2017. https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00000866.

 

Creating Notes (Footnotes) using Microsoft Word

By default, Microsoft Word will format footnotes at the end of the page with a superscript number and no indent.  

For the Chicago Notes and Bibliography style, you will need to manually change the font size of footnote number and indent it.

See our instructions on how to create a Note (footnote) in Word and manually edit the format according to the Chicago Notes and Bibliography style.

Please check with your Unit Coordinator to see if their preference is to use the formal Chicago style footnote formatting or the default Word format.

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