A Guide for Music Citation - Chicago/Turabian Style

A music example/figure is a quotation, so you must format and cite the example correctly. Turabian terminology uses "figure" instead of "example." You can insert a music figure into your paper by photocopying from a score, or using Finale, Sibelius, or other score-writing programs.

• Include the clef(s). If the measures you've copied from the score do not include clefs, add them yourself on each line of the example.
• Give a title to your figure. For measure numbers, remember to use mm. for multiple measures (ms. means "manuscript").

Figure 7. Johann Sebastian Bach, Adagio from Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564, mm. 26-31.⁵

Insert a superscript at the end of your music example title and supply a corresponding footnote. The footnote gives publication information about the score you used for your example.

The note for the above example is:

5. Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, vol. 15, Drei Toccaten für Orgel, ed. Wilhelm Rush (Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1867): 258.