Graduate Research in Music 660-710
Schedule of Classes & Syllabus
Fall 2001

Rebecca Littman, Music Librarian
Office Number: Library E295
Class Time: Tuesday 4:30-7:00, Library E280
Office Hours: by appointment
Phone: 229-5529
Email: rlittman@uwm.edu
URL: http://www.uwm.edu/Library/Music
URL for this class: http://www.uwm.edu/~rlittman/710.html

REVISED Course Schedule
This schedule has been altered to accomodate the session that was missed when classes were cancelled.
It may change again in the future. Please check the website on a regular, e.g. daily, basis !

Session 1 -- Introduction to the Course (Sept 4)
Materials for the day.

Session 2 -- Libraries & Research (Sept 18)
Materials for the day.

ASSIGNMENT #1 (due next week)
READ for Next Week: St. John, Warren. "Vanity's Fair" (on E-Reserve)

Session 3 -- Evaluating Sources (Sept 25)
Materials for the day.

DUE:Assignment #1
ASSIGNMENT #2 (due next week)

Session 4 -- Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Histories of Music (Oct 2)
Materials for the day.

DUE:Assignment #2
ASSIGNMENT #3 (due next week)

Session 5 -- Non Music Sources (Oct 9)
Materials for the day.

NOTE:This class will meet in E-159.(access to this room is through the Reserve Room on 1st floor East Wing).

DUE:Assignment #3
ASSIGNMENT #4 (due 23 October)

Session 6 -- Web Resources (Oct 16)
Materials for the day.

NOTE:This class will meet in E-159

Note: To avoid too much compression of the assignment/readings timeline, I've made reading of this article optional... it gives an interesting perspective on historical research and performance and I recommend reading it, but we will not discuss it in class unless someone who does read it has questions.
Taruskin, Richard. in Text & Act, Chapter 5: "What -- or Where -- is the Original?" (on E-Reserve)

Session 7 -- Primary Sources (Oct23)
Materials for the day.

DUE:Assignment #4
ASSIGNMENT #5 (due next week)

Session 8 -- Popular Music Resources (Oct 30)
Materials for the day.

Due: Assignment #5
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK: First Draft of Final Project

Session 9 -- Sound Recordings (Nov 6)
Materials for the day.

DUE: First Draft of Final Project

Session 10 -- Thematic Catalogs & Collected Editions (Nov 13)
Materials for the day.

ASSIGNMENT #6 (due next week)

Session 11 -- Resources for Teachers (Nov 20)
Materials for the day.

NOTE:This class will meet in E-159, the Library Instruction Lab.
DUE: Assignment #6

Session 12 -- Resources for Performers (Nov 27)
Materials for the day.

Session 13 -- Copyright Issue (Dec 4)
Materials for the day.

NOTE:This class will meet in E-159, the Library Instruction Lab.

ASSIGNMENT -- Final Project due NEXT WEEK

Session 14 -- Wrap Up (Dec 11)

DUE: Final Project

Assignments

Assignment #1 (due 25 Sept)

Scavenger Hunt #1. The questions can be found here.

Assignment #2 (due 2 Oct)

Write evaluations of 5 resources. At least 2 must be web-resources.

This should be 4-5 pages in length. Provide full citations to the materials so that I can look at them.
Consult your Style Manual for citation formats (including web-resources).

Assignment #3 (due 9 Oct)

Write a biography of yourself following the standards set by sources such as Baker's and New Grove.

Assignment #4 (due 23 Oct)

Locate 5 non-music sources that will be helpful to you in your final graduate work and beyond and write reviews of them.
These can be specific books or articles, or entire databases or web resources. Tell me how you found them, and why you think they will be useful and what you think their limitations might be.

Follow the same pattern for description and review as you did for assignment #1.

Assignment #5 (due 30 Oct)

Scavenger Hunt #2. The questions can be found here.

Assignment #6 (due 20 Nov)

Scavenger Hunt #3. The questions can be found here.

Final Project (due 11 Dec)

An annotated 'webliography' of resources that are important to your discipline, both print and web-based. It should include 50-75 relevant sources, more if you find them, organized in a way that would make the webliography useful to others as well. You should be gathering sources to include as the course proceeds. Note that there is a draft of the list due about a month before the course ends, on 6 November.

The result should be marked-up in HTML and ready for mounting on the WWW.

NB: I will not teach you the HTML, so you'll need to find a way to mark things up. There are many free/shareware software products available and some of the campus computer labs have software that can help you. I will provide links to web-based tutorials. It is your responsibility to learn HTML well enough to create a real web resource. You know this from the beginning of the class, so please make this part of your class-preparation. Do not leave it until the end or you will not get full points for the assignment.

Particularly well-done projects may be added to the UWM Music Collection's website, and the designer will be given credit.

A Sample of a few sites created for this class can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/~rlittman/samplesites.html

House Keeping

Everyone must get an email account. My email address is rlittman@uwm.edu.

Required Text: There are 2 books required.

NB: I have not ordered these books through the UWM Bookstore. They are readily available in larger bookstores and through web vendors like Amazon.com.

1 -- Foster, Donald, and Phillip D. Crabtree. Sourcebook for Research in Music. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1999.

2 -- Everyone must buy, or demonstrate that they already own, a copy of the most recent edition of the style guide that meets the needs of your area:

Education students should own the APA guide:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.

Others can choose between:
Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers. 14th Ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Gibaldi, Joseph, and Phillis Franklin. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th Ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999.
Turabian, Kate L., et al. A Manual for Writers of Term papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th Ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

I don't really care which one you buy, but I want to know what style you're using and I want you to be consistent. You will be graded on this!

A list of suggested readings and miscellaneous resources (both print and Internet-based) is available on the MISCELLANEOUS READINGS page.

Attendance: Because the class meets only once a week, attendance is required at ALL sessions. Normally I'm not an attendance freak, but if you miss one of these classes that's a significant portion of the course material.

Goals for the Class: to learn the resources that will help you in your graduate work.

Grading:

Attendance:

15

Assignment #1:

5

Assignment #2:

10

Assignment #3:

5

Assignment #4:

10

Project Draft:

5

Assignment #5:

5

Assignment #6:

5

Final Project:

35

Final Quiz:

5

TOTAL:

100

Prepared for Graduate Research in Music 660-710, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Department of Music.
Rebecca Littman, rlittman@uwm.edu

2 Sept 99. updated 5 Sept 00. revised 15 Sept 01.