Subsection 8.3.14 Citing a Music Performance
Subsubsection APA
APA does not provide a formal citation for music performances.
Subsubsection Chicago
Author of performed work Last Name, First Name. Title of performed work. Cond. Conductor First Name Last Name. Location, city, state/country, date of performance.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Symphony No. 9. Cond. Wesley Schultz. Schneebeck Concert Hall, Tacoma, WA, July 29, 2016.
Notes.
For more information about how to insert footnotes, see Subsection 12.1.2.
Subsubsection MLA
Note: With performances, you may want to emphasize different elements, perhaps the composer, or perhaps the performing group. Depending on your focus, here are two possible approaches.
Writer Last Name, First Name. Title of work performed. Date of performance. City, Theater.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Symphony No. 9. 29 July 2016, Tacoma, Schneebeck Concert Hall.
Performer Last Name, First Name. Title of work performed, by Composer First Name Last Name. Date of performance, City, Theater.
University of Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra. Symphony No. 9, by Ludwig van Beethoven. 29 July 2016, Tacoma, Schneebeck Concert Hall.
In-text: (Beethoven) or (University of Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra)
L. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, conducted by Wesley Schultz, Schneebeck Concert Hall, Tacoma, Wa, July 29, 2016.
Ibid.
L. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9.
