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Pro Tip Tuesday #13: Italics and punctuation

When writing an italicized title, word, or phrase, some authors are in the habit of not hitting Ctrl+I again until the beginning of the next non-italicized word, even if there’s punctuation in between that doesn’t “belong to” the italicized term. This follows what the Chicago Manual (6.4) calls “a more traditional system . . .…

Pro Tip Tuesday #12: Page numbers in citations

The chart below (extracted from my free resource on switching between bibliography and footnote formats in Chicago Style) indicates when and where to include page numbers in different types of citations.  BookBook ChapterJournal ArticleBibliographyno page numbersfull page range (following the editor’s name and a comma)full page range (following the parenthetical date and a colon)Full footnote:…

Pro Tip Tuesday #11: ed. / eds. / edited by

In Chicago-style footnotes and bibliographies, I often see authors mixing up the different ways of indicating that someone is the editor of a book. Here are two rules to help sort this out. Footnote, one editor: Timothy J. Cooley, ed., Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019). Bibliography, one editor:…

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PRODUCTIVITY

Erin’s Weekly Project Tracker

My work life as a freelancer/adjunct isn’t all that different from when I was a grad student – I’m juggling a bunch of different projects and types of work on any given day, my responsibilities range from ten-minute tasks to long-term projects, multiple unrelated people are depending on me to finish things on time, and…

MUSICOLOGY

~greatness~

Checking Twitter between AMS papers yesterday afternoon, I saw a few musicology friends grumbling about critic Anthony Tommasini’s new piece in the New York Times, “The Case for Greatness in Classical Music,” adapted from his new book. I took a minute to read it before running off to another paper, and it annoyed me about as…

CHURCH MUSIC

Hymn Descant: EASTER HYMN

It just figures that this would be the year I decided to Make An Effort and write new hymn descants for Easter! I had just finished arranging the hymns, prelude, and postlude for the little chamber orchestra we usually have when it became clear that we wouldn’t be having an in-person Easter service. I hope…

Christ, My All (for SATB choir and speaker)

Today is the 200th birthday of Fanny J. Crosby, who has been my go-to source of public-domain hymn texts for the past few years, so I figured I would finally share a setting of one of her texts that I wrote for my church choir last year, in the hope that church choirs will be…

New Christmas worship song: “Take Up the Story”

Between finals week and Advent, December is always an especially busy time for me. Last year, I realized after Christmas that I had forgotten to post the new song I wrote for my church, so I figured I would hold off until Advent 2019. You can see where this is going–I spent this month chasing…