• Provides a new pedagogical approach to human musicality and music education
• Reveals how our capacities to live musically and to cultivate a musical life are derived from the legacies of... view details

After more than fifty years as a music educator and conductor, the legendary Paula Crider has experienced it all - the lows and the highs, the messes and the magnificence of teaching music at all levels.

• Explains the different factors that go into a succesful and durable music program
• Offers a clear guide to creating a guitar program from scratch
• Focuses on under-discussed aspects... view details

Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory,

• Provides an understanding of the connectivity between performance, repertoire, music theory, sight-reading, improvisation, and musicological knowledge
• Uses a Performance to Notation model... view details

• Provides an easy, step-by-step guide for teachers with little or no experience teaching jazz
• Includes hundreds of musical examples and an appendix of chord symbols
• Offers tips for... view details

• Provides interdisciplinary insight into how musical care is understood and undertaken during different stages of the life course
• Offers a variety of perspectives from practitioners and... view details

Become a better conductor by becoming a better listener. Often, one of the greatest challenges for band directors is detecting errors in rehearsal quickly and easily. This comprehensive resource provides a

This resource is a practical blueprint for teachers wanting to begin teaching music technology to middle and high school-age students. The authors inspire classroom music teachers to expand beyond

For more than three decades, James Jordan has been at the forefront of the evolution of the choral warm-up, choral pedagogy, and music teaching and learning, applying the principles of Edwin E. Gordon's

• Provides new practical ideas that can be used in classrooms
• Features sample lessons and vignettes written by experts in a variety of disciplines
• Offers new applications of music... view details

• Provides a philosophical/theoretical basis for future scholarship on competition in music education, for both empirical research and philosophical inquiry
• Offers a resource for teachers... view details

• Written by leading experts in the field
• Provides a comprehensive introduction to historical, philosophical, qualitative, quantitative, and action research approaches
• Develops... view details

• Includes original, as-yet unpublished lesson plans that connect teaching social justice through music
• Features a companion website hosting all referenced videos, as well as supplemental... view details

• Proposes that music classes can and should look more like art classes
• Examines how musical creativities can be approached through technology
• Shows how cultivating students'... view details

• Argues that contemporary electronically driven popular music has great value for educational, extra-scholastic and therapeutic purposes
• Highlights the unjustified linkage of these musics... view details

• Offers a strategic combination of creating a vision and then formulating a plan to help guide musicians in successfully developing a thriving career
• Includes diverse true-life stories of... view details

Align music instruction with state and national standards and remain focused on active music making using this resource as your guide. This second edition includes new and updated chapters by a team with

• Focuses on the topic of caring pedagogies while engaging with a broad range of issues across music education
• Features collaborations between seasoned and emerging scholars, pre-K-12... view details

• Authored by leading experts in the field of music and early childhood
• Organized into key inter-disciplinary themes, including commentaries
• Written in order to be accessible to all... view details

• Taken an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the most authoritative insights from psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education, science, medicine and music... view details

• Taken an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the most authoritative insights from psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education, science, medicine and music... view details