Music Education

This research guide is here to help students find resources for music education by providing a location to access different bibliographic works and websites to help with research and understanding of the subject matter.

Using this research guide, you can access a number of databases, websites, and directions to library books which will help you learn more about applying best practices of music education. 

Each database and website can direct you to helpful tools that will direct you to learn more about different aspects of the practice, and the guide provides descriptions of their purpose. 

Additionally, each library book's title should be helpful to provide you with a starting point for your research and understanding of the content, with a link provided if you click the citation!

Remember, anything in red is a link! And the links provided will direct you to helpful resources to guide you through your education process. Use the black tabs with title headings like "collected resources," databases," and other helpful titles to navigate the guide for the materials which will be of the most use to you.

Some other research guides may also help you as you navigate through educational topics in music, including:

• Music History
  • Contains materials about the history of music, instruments, and music theory
• MUH 530: Topics in Music History
  • Contains materials similar to the above Music History Guide, with more specification geared towards the course
• Archives & Special Collections
  • Contains materials related to Anderson University's history of music and education

The "Related Guides" tab to the side lists them, but the website is powered by EBSCO, who is still working to update the interfacing, so these links will provide a more accurate direction for your usage.

Fine Arts & Music

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine art students. 

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

With 9,000 pages-- the complete online version of the print set also includes associated audio tracks, musical illustrations, photographs, drawings, song texts, score examples, charts, and maps. 

IPA Source

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 12,000 titles!

Library Music Source

This resource contains over 300,000 pages of Western Classical sheet music from over 35,000 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, organ, voice, chorus, strings, winds, percussion, and guitar. 

Oxford Music Online

The Oxford Music Online gateway provides access to multiple music resources including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.

AllMusic lets users sample or purchase music recordings, giving access to the first 30 seconds of hundreds of thousands of recordings, as well as accompanying notes, biographies, reviews, and classical composition descriptions. Users must register to listen, but it is free. 

Baroque Music Pages contains articles, composer biographies, portraits, and music samples.

Credo Reference is an information database that allows users to filter by subject topic and to explore a variety of information in that specifically focuses on music and artists.

The George F. Devine Music Library at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has compiled a wonderful links page to online music collections and library holdings. 

Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music offers an extensive collection of data for concert band, with a goal to document every concert band work and composer. 

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library is the free public domain sheet music library. 

The Journal of Music History Pedagogy is a biannual, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal dedicated to the publication of original articles and reviews related to teaching music history of all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and general) and disciplines. The JMHP holds no single viewpoint on what constitutes good teaching and endorses all types of scholarship on music history pedagogy that are well-researched, objective, and challenging.

Music Mind Games is an innovative method for teaching music literacy and music theory. The creative teaching sequence, nurturing philosophy, colorful materials, and 200+ original games are used in schools, studios, choirs, and camps worldwide.

Music Theory Pedagogy Online is a website that serves as a repository for all things relating to music theory pedagogy. This comprehensive site will contain a vast array of materials ranging from older issues of the journal to ancillary materials for new journal articles such as scores, recordings, or video demonstrations to a growing collection of peer-reviewed articles, supplemental teaching materials, and video teaching demonstrations. MTPO also offers a textbook authors' helpdesk, and various inter-institutional initiatives like a peer tutoring program. 

The National Association for Music Education hosts publications & resources including professional standards , blogs, books, journal articles, and professional organization memberships. Explore the website to access all these and more.

The Library of Congress in collaboration with Sony gives free online access to over 10,000 music and spoken-word recordings produces in the U.S. between 1901 and 1925  through the National Jukebox.

OnMusic Dictionary includes browsing by instrument, composers, symbol charts, and various other categories. 

Public Domain Music is a reference site to help identify music and songs in the public domain; this is royalty-free music that users can use anywhere in any way they choose.

Renaissance Channel is devoted to the performance of medieval and renaissance music.

Teoria is a website dedicated to the study and practice of music theory, and has been part of the internet community since January 1997, when it was published under the development of José Rodriguez Alvira as a complementary resource for his courses at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. 

Putnik, Edwin. The Art of Flute Playing. Evanston, IL: Summy-Birchard Co., 1970.

LOC Call Number: MT340.P86 1970

Teal, Larry. The Art of Saxophone Playing. Evanston, IL: Summy-Birchard Co., 1963.

LOC Call Number: MT502.T4

Brass Anthology: A Compendium of Articles from the Instrumentalist on Playing the Brass Instruments. Evanston, IL: The Instrumentalist, 1969.

LOC Call Number: MT339.B72 1969

Baines, Anthony. Brass Instruments: Their History and Development. New York: Scribner, 1978.

Newsome, Roy. Brass Roots: A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and Their Music, 1836-1936. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Anderson, Paul G. Brass Solo and Study Material Music Guide. Evanston, IL: Instrumentalist Co., 1976.

Rice, Albert R. The Clarinet in the Classical Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Toff, Nancy. The Development of the Modern Flute. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1979.

LOC Call Number: ML935.T63

Lawson, Colin. The Early Clarinet: A Practical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Beck, John. Encyclopedia of Percussion. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2007.

LOC Call Number: ML102.P4 E5 2007

Meylan, Raymond. The Flute. London: Batsford, 1988.

LOC Call Number: ML935.M513 1988

Nettl, Bruno, Ruth M. Stone, James Porter, and Timothy Rice. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland Publishers, 1998.

LOC Call Number: ML100 .G16 1998

Garrett, Charles H. The Grove Dictionary of American Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

LOC Call Number: ML101.U6 N48 2013

Bachelder, Daniel F. Guide to Teaching Brass. 6th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

LOC Call Number: MT418.H9 2002

Holloway, Ronald A. Guide to Teaching Percussion. 4th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1984.

LOC Call Number: MT655.H64 1984

Westphal, Frederick William. Guide to Teaching Woodwinds. 5th ed. Dubuque, IA: W.C. Brown Publishers, 1990.

LOC Call Number: MT339.5.W47 1990

Bucur, Voichita. Handbook of Materials for Percussion Musical Instruments. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.

Szőnyi, Erzsébet. Kodály’s Principles in Practice: An Approach to Music Education through the Kodály Method. London ; Boosey & Hawkes, 1979.

Regelski, Thomas A., and J. Terry Gates. Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

Elliott, David J. Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Goodman, Karen D. Music Therapy Education and Training From Theory to Practice. Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 2011.

Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind. 2d ed. London ; Oxford University Press, 1982.

LOC Call Number: MT339.5.B37 1982

Joppig, Gunther. The Oboe and the Bassoon. London: Batsford, 1988.

Van Cleve, Libby. Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

LOC Call Number: MT360.V35 2004

Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. New York: Schirmer Books, 1966.

LOC Call Number: MT342.Q31 1966

Cox, Gordon, Robin Stevens, and Anthony Haynes. The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: Cross-Cultural Historical Studies of Music in Compulsory Schooling. Continuum Studies in Educational Research. London: Continuum, 2012.

Latham, Alison. The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Baines, Anthony. The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1992.

LOC Call Number: ML102.I5 B34 1992

Reimer, Bennett. A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision, Third Edition. Carol Stream: State University of New York Press, 2022.

Powell, Bryan, and Gareth Dylan Smith. Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field. Bristol, England: Intellect, 2022.

Debost, Michel. The Simple Flute: From A-Z. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Cook, Gary. Teaching Percussion. 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.

LOC Call Number: MT655.C67 1997

Kirkbride, Jerry, and William Dietz. Teaching Woodwinds: A Method and Resource Handbook for Music Educators. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.

LOC Call Number: MT339.5.D54 1998

Thompson, Kevin. Wind Bands and Brass Bands in School and Music Centre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

LOC Call Number: MT733.T43 1985

Ely, Mark C. Wind Talk for Brass: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching Brass Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Ely, Mark C. Wind Talk for Woodwinds: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching Woodwind Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Saucier, Gene A. Woodwinds: Fundamental Performance Techniques. New York: Schirmer Books, 1981.

LOC Call Number: MT339.5.S3 1981

Woodwind Anthology: A Compendium of Articles from the Instrumentalist on the Woodwind Instruments. Evanston, IL: Instrumentalist Co., 1976.

LOC Call Number: MT339.W66 1976

Voxman, Himie. Woodwind Ensemble Music Guide. Evanston, IL: Instrumentalist Co., 1973.

LOC Call Number: ML128.W5 V7 1973

Baines, Anthony. Woodwind Instruments and Their History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963.

LOC Call Number: ML930.B3 1963

Voxman, Himie. Woodwind Solo and Study Material Music Guide. Evanston, IL: Instrumentalist Co., 1975.

LOC Call Number: ML128.W5 V73

Turabian, Kate L., Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. Fitzgerald. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Ninth Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

LOC Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2018

Use the Turabian manual as a guide for Chicago/Turabian style.

Use the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide as an online resource to develop notes and bibliography for your research.

The Turabian Quick Guide provides an online resource as a guide for using Chicago/Turabian style.

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

• Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
• Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.) 
• Search your entire library
• Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.

Zotero is a citation guide which you can use to map your research project resources.  Below is a step-by-step photo guide to using Zotero to create a bibliographical citation. However, you can also use the Zotero Connector browser extension, and Zotero will automatically generate the citation for you! Just be sure to check for any errors.