ZS-AFMW

Archiv fuer Musikwissenschaft

The most important pages in the authors’ area

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

Contribution header

In addition to the original title, provide an (English) translation of the main heading and the subheading (unless they are already in English).
There are no abstracts and keywords in the original language for the Archiv fuer Musikwissenschaften. An Abstract and Keywords in English are sufficient.

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Adam Ahorn / Max Mustermann
Main Heading in Original Language
Subheading in Original Language

English Translation of Main Heading
English Translation of subheading

Abstract: This is the abstract.
Keywords: Keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, keyword 4, keyword 5, keyword 6

Abbreviated references

In the Archiv fuer Musikwissenschaft a bibliography is not provided at the end of an article. References are always provided in the footnotes.
Full bibliographic reference for the first citation; for repeated citation in the same contribution, abbreviated form with short title.
The abbreviated reference is given as follows: surname, short title, page number. Directly after the short title, please refer in brackets to the note where the detailed bibliographic information is given:

Noeske, Musikalische Dokunstruktion (cf. note 14), p. 79.

McClary, “Narrative Agendas“ (cf. note 53), p. 328.

A consecutively repeated reference is abbreviated with “ibid.“ or “ibid., page number“:

Noeske, Musikalische Dokunstruktion, (cf. note 14), S. 22.

cf. ibid.

ibid., p. 61.

Detailed references

Monographs

First name surname, Title. Subtitle (series, volume), place year.

Nina Noeske, Musikalische Dekonstruktion. Neue Instrumentalmusik in der DDR (KlangZeiten. Musik, Politik und Gesellschaft 3), Cologne et al. 2007.

Hermann Danuser, Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts (Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft 7), Laaber 1984.

Journal article

First name surname, “Title. Subtitle”, in: Full Journal Title volume, year, issue, page numbers.

James Hepokoski, “The Dahlhaus Project and Its Extra-Musicological Sources”, in: 19th-Century Music 14, 1991, issue 3, p. 221–246.

Contribution in an edited volume

First name surname, “Title. Subtitle”, in: Title. Subtitle, ed. by First name surname, place year, page numbers.

Susan McClary, “Narrative Agendas in ‘Absolute’ Music. Identity and Difference in Brahms’s Third Symphony”, in: Musicology and Difference. Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. by Ruth A. Solie, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1993, p. 326–344.

Works list

Title. Subtitle, ed. by first name surname, place year.

Die G. F. Haendel zugeschriebenen Kompositionen, 1700–1800 / The Compositions attributed to G.F. Handel, 1700–1800 (HWV Anh. B), ed. by Hans Joachim Marx and Steffen Voss, Hildesheim 2017.