Affiliation:
1. Paula Clarke Bain is a Fellow of the Society of Indexers (SI) and has been a UK editorial freelancer for two decades, most enjoying biography, comedy, film, literature and music books, plus indexes on indexes. Her website and indexing blog is at and she can be located on social media as @PC_Bain.
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.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
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