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Citation Styles for Music

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As of 2020, we now have online access to the Chicago Manual of Style, which should answer all your questions about citing sources properly in Chicago Style.

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Humanities Style

Entire recording Note: ¹Composer First Name Last, Name of musical work, PerformerFirstName Last, Record label (followed by)
CD identifying number, format, Year.

Note: Igor Stravinsky, L'oiseau de feu, Apollon musagète, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati, London Records 430 740-2, 1992, compact disc.

Bibliography:  Composer Last Name, First.  Name of musical work, PerformerFirstName Last.  Record label (followed by) CD identifying number. Format. Year.

Bibliography:Stravinsky, Igor. L'oiseau de feu, Apollon musagète. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati. London Records 430 740-2. 1992, compact disc.

Part of recording Note: ¹Igor Stravinsky, Firebird ballet suite (1945) revised version, from Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Sony Classical SX9K 64136, 1999, compact disc.

Bibliography: Stravinsky, Igor. Firebird ballet suite (1945) revised version. From Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky. Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Sony Classical SX9K 64136. 1999, compact disc.
MP3 download Note:   ¹Composer First Name Last, Name of musical work, PerformerFirstName Last, Record label, format, Year.

Note: ¹Igor Stravinsky, Firebird Suite (1945), Columbia Symphony Orchestra, MP3, 1967.

Bibliography:  Composer Last Name, First. Name of work. Performer FirstName Last.  Record label. Format. Year.

Bibliography: Igor Stravinsky, Igor. Firebird Suite (1945). Columbia Symphony Orchestra. MP3, 1967.
Streaming audio service Note: ¹Igor Stravinsky, Firebird (original version), from Sacre du printemps, Petrushka, The Firebird, Apollo (1947 revision), EMI Classics, streaming audio, 1987, accessed March 5, 2013 http://bwcoll.naxosmusiclibrary.com/streamw.asp?ver=2.0&s=76779%2Fohiolinkbwc07%2F1535230.

Bibliography: Stravinsky, Igor. Firebird (original version). From Sacre du printemps, Petrushka, The Firebird, Apollo (1947 revision). EMI Classics. Streaming audio, 1987. Accessed March 5, 2013 http://bwcoll.naxosmusiclibrary.com/streamw.asp?ver=2.0&s=76779%2Fohiolinkbwc07%2F1535230.
YouTube website clip Note: ¹"Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird," [n.d.], video clip, YouTube, Accessed March 5, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUwdyN27TWI.

The abbreviation "n.d." means no date.  Include a date if it is provided. 

Bibliography: "Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird." [n.d.]. Video clip. YouTube Accessed March 5, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUwdyN27TWI.
Liner Notes Note: ¹Igor Stravinsky, Liner Notes to The Firebird, from Three Favorite Ballets, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Columbia M3S 705, LP record, 1964.

Bibliography: Stravinsky, Igor. Liner Notes to The Firebird. From Three Favorite Ballets. Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Columbia M3S 705. LP record, 1964.

Humanities Style

Entire Book: Print version Footnote/Endnote:

First reference in paper without a bibliography
Note: ¹Author First Name Last, Title of Book (City:  Publisher, Year), page numbers.
   ¹Charles M. Joseph, Stravinsky Inside and Out (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 33.

First note citation in a paper with full bibliography or subsequent citations with or without:
   ²Joseph, Stravinsky Inside and Out, 33.

Bibliography:  Author Last Name, First.  Title of Book. City: Publisher, Year.
   Joseph, Charles M. Stravinsky Inside and Out. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Entire Book: Edited Note: ¹Ethan Haimo and Paul Johnson, Eds. Stravinsky Retrospectives (Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1987), 87.

Bibliography: Haimo, Ethan and Paul Johnson. Eds. Stravinsky Retrospectives. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1987.
E-book Note: ¹Gretchen Horlacher, Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001),  accessed February 25, 2013 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/ebc/9780195370867.

Bibliography: Horlacher, Gretchen, Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/ebc/9780195370867. Also available in print.

Chapter in a Book

(Essay in a Festschrift)

Note: ¹Sally Banes, "Firebird and the idea of Russianness," in The Ballets Russes and its World, eds. Lynn Garafola and Nancy Baer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 130. 

Bibliography: Banes, Sally. "Firebird and the idea of Russianness."  In The Ballets Russes and its World. Edited by Lynn Garafola and Nancy Baer, 117-134. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.