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Katie Buehner
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Subjects: Dance, Music, Theatre Arts
Journal Article (MLA 5.4.2)

Works Cited List -----

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title Volume
     [just the number].issue [just the number] (Date of Publication): page range.
     Medium [Print or Web].

Wilson Kimber, Marian. "Reading Shakespeare, Seeing Mendelssohn:
     Concert Readings of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', ca. 1850-1920." 
     Musical Quarterly 89.2/3 (2006): 199-236. Print.

Magazine Article (MLA 5.4.6)

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Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Month, Day,
     Year: pp.-pp. Medium [Print or Web].

Betts, Steve, Alan Huckleberry, and Jason Sifford. "9,000 teaching pieces on YouTube:
     The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Project." Clavier Companion,
     November 2012. Print.

Newspaper Article [Web Only] (MLA 5.6.2)

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Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Website Publisher,
     Publication date [Day Month Year]. Date Accessed [Day Month Year].

Cohen, Mary L. "Oakdale choir concert presents 'We Are the Ones'." 
     Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City Press-Citizen, 7 June 2014. eb 30 June 2014.

Reviews (MLA 5.4.7)

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Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Article Title [if there is a title]" Rev.
     of Title of Reviewed Item [place title in italics or quotations marks as is
     appropriate], by Author of Reviewed item. Title of Publication and Publication
     information [format according to the publication type]: pp.-pp.
     Medium [Print or Web].

Lucano, Ralph. Rev. of Lucia da Lammermoor by San Francisco Opera,
     Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, Raymond Wolanski,
     and Simon Estes. American Record Guide 71.6 (2008): 239. Web.