Introduction

Music Research Essentials introduces music students to:

• research techniques for undergraduate music assignments
• finding and evaluating primary and secondary sources
• referencing using Chicago 17th Edition style
• formatting your assignments.

Prerequisites

This book assumes no previous familiarity with Western music. However, each chapter assumes familiarity with the preceding chapters and it is recommended that chapters are read in order.

Who this Book is for

This book was written primarily for undergraduate students in the School of Music at The University of Queensland (Australia).  However, while some of the information in the book is UQ-specific, we hope that parts of it might also be useful or interesting to any students doing music research or instructors in the discipline.