{"title":"A melodic interlude: key notes for indexing books about music","authors":"Paula Clarke Bain","doi":"10.3828/index.2023.53","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is much to enjoy about composing indexes to books on music, but they can present a suite of different challenges. In this article, based on her presentation to the 2023 conference of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI), Paula Clarke Bain shares her experience and tips on indexing several types of musical books, including scholarly works on classical music, and trade biographies/memoirs of contemporary pop/rock stars, offering insight into how to fine-tune your practice when indexing such materials.","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"107 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The indexer","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.53","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There is much to enjoy about composing indexes to books on music, but they can present a suite of different challenges. In this article, based on her presentation to the 2023 conference of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI), Paula Clarke Bain shares her experience and tips on indexing several types of musical books, including scholarly works on classical music, and trade biographies/memoirs of contemporary pop/rock stars, offering insight into how to fine-tune your practice when indexing such materials.