About this Guide

This guide is designed to support The University of Queensland (UQ) students to develop key research skills in the area of music.

Music Research Essentials is organised into four parts:

• Part 1: Research Skills introduces the concept of research in the music discipline, the Architecture and Music Library, assignment types, creating a search strategy, and evaluating sources.
• Part 2: Secondary Sources focuses on finding and using secondary material such as books and journal articles.
• Part 3: Primary Sources focuses on how to find and use primary material such as scores, sound recordings, video and audio sources, and newspaper articles and reviews.
• Part 4: Referencing and Formatting your Assignment includes key information on correctly referencing and formatting assignments in UQ music.

Attribution

The structure of Music Research Essentials is adapted from Legal Research Skills: An Australian Guide (2023 Edition). The content has been reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 licence.

Music Research Essentials has been created for UQ music students.