Research Guides: Music: Education

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Use these call numbers to browse for books at the Cabell Library:

MT -- Music, Instruction and study
BF -- Psychology
L -- Education
ML -- Music literature, history, and theory

Music Education Books

Dictionary of Music Education
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2013
Includes entries on key individuals, critical terms, important events, and notable organizations, offering readers a broad survey of the field of music education.
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Call Number: ebook
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning.
Menc Handbook of Research on Music Learning
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2011
This Handbook summarizes the latest research on music learning. Chapters are written by expert researchers in music teaching and learning, creating research summaries that will be useful for practitioners as well as beginning and advanced researchers.
Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs
Call Number: MT17 .H36 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Research-based curricular strategies that are grounded in both best practice and current special education law. Chapters address the full range of topics and issues music educators face, including parental involvement, student anxiety, field trips and performances, and assessment strategies.
Crowd Control: Crowd management and effective teaching for chorus, band, and orhcestra
Call Number: MT1.H38 2013
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Provides a variety of ideas and techniques for teaching music classes using elements of popular culture, such as popular songs and genres, mixes and remixes, video games, music videos, television shows, and internet resources.
New Art and Science of Teaching Art and Music
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
This research-based book for art and music teachers outlines music- and arts-based teaching strategies.
Sociology for Music Teachers
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2017
Demonstrates the relationship of music to education, schooling and society, and examines the consequences for making instructional choices in teaching methods and repertoire selection.

Music Education Search Tips

You can find music education sources within The VCU Libraries Search box using such Subject terms as:

Music -- Instruction and Study
School music -- Instruction and study
[Instrument or group] -- Instruction and Study e.g.
- Guitar -- Instruction and Study
- Stringed Instruments -- Instruction and Study
[Instrument] -- Methods
Other useful terms:
- Juvenile, Adult
- Primary or Elementary
- Middle School
- Secondary or High School
- Studies, Educational Practices or Strategies
- Exercises, Games or Activities
- Testing
- Training
- Performing Arts

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