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Dillon, Jonathan Edan – Journal of General Music Education, 2023
Part-work is a skill through which an individual performs and maintains one musical part while another part is performed at the same time. Rich and varied part-work experiences feature prominently in the musical lives of children. Despite this, elementary general music teachers often frame part-work as a skill needed in the short term to perform…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Singing, Performance
Emily Hatch – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Performing music is one of the fundamental processes of music education. A musical performance includes not only singing or playing accurate notes and rhythms but also making interpretive decisions to convey music expressively. The author researched to find out the best strategies for developing expressive performance, and then created a lesson…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Performance, Lesson Plans
Springer, D. Gregory; Silvey, Brian A. – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of focus of attention instructions (i.e. focus on the solo, accompaniment, or collaboration) on listeners' performance evaluations. Participants (N = 159) were inservice band directors who listened to and evaluated the accuracy and expressivity of four excerpts of Haydn's "Concerto for…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Musical Instruments, Student Evaluation
Karen Kyriakou – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2022
For the past 12 years I have been involved teaching music at a deaf school in Melbourne, philanthropically supported by Musica Viva's Equal Music program. The students use Auslan as their primary language and prior to the residency there had not been a music program in the school for more than a decade. Students now participate fully in the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
Espie, Stephanie R. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2022
Although academic discussions of whiteness in music education have been prevalent for over a decade, critical examinations of whiteness in world music education have been disproportionately lacking. One specific world music ensemble that warrants examination is the steelband within American schools. The steelpan was introduced in the United States…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Teaching Methods, Performance
Gallo, Donna; Kuchenbrod, Emily – Music Educators Journal, 2022
In this article, we situate songwriting in elementary spaces as a vehicle for personal and musical expression and informed by popular music practices. We offer insights for how educators can anchor students' work by encouraging them to create songs for a specific purpose like shedding light on social issues relevant to their lives. This article…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Singing, Musical Composition, Writing (Composition)
Marina McLerran – Music Educators Journal, 2024
Musical expression is often not explicitly addressed in secondary instrumental rehearsals due to the perception of expression as an obscure concept and the instructional time constraints on music educators. Secondary music educators, however, are encouraged to discuss expressive performance goals with instrumental students from the beginning of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Music
Harney, Kristin; Greene, Jennifer L. R.; Katz-Cote, Heather; Mulcahy, Krista; Stanley, Laura Moates – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2023
In this mixed-methods study, we explored perspectives of ensemble directors (N = 306) regarding standards-based instruction and circumstances impacting standards-based instruction in the areas of creating, performing, responding, and connecting. Our research was modeled on Byo's (1999) examination of teacher perceptions of the implementation of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Administrator Attitudes, Music Teachers, Music Activities
Woods, Peter J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2021
Within the growing body of literature focused on the cultural space surrounding punk music, an increasing number of scholars have examined do-it-yourself (DIY) music cultures through the lens of curriculum theory and education research more broadly. Extant research into punk pedagogy has largely failed to investigate one particular cornerstone of…
Descriptors: Music, Cultural Influences, Performance, Music Activities
Sefton, Terry G.; Ricketts, Kathryn – LEARNing Landscapes, 2022
This paper describes the pedagogical roots of the work we do, both as teachers and as performers; and how our work reaches beyond the classroom and into community, eliciting narratives and weaving them through improvised dance and music collaborations, eventually onto the walls of an art museum. Our concept was to solicit stories that told of some…
Descriptors: Performance, Art Activities, Visual Arts, Arts Centers
Massy, Paul J.; Sembiante, Sabrina F. – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
This systematic literature review seeks to examine the pedagogical practices, professional relationships, and curricular development that impact teachers' and students' experiences in the postsecondary music education field as well as the theoretical frameworks and methodological design guiding the inquiry of included studies. A literature search…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Meta Analysis, Educational Change
Wesley Brewer – Music Educators Journal, 2023
Wind band has a deep and long-lasting connection to folk-song sources. Societal expectations around music choices and sources are changing, including calls to diversify repertoire and eliminate traditional songs that include offensive language and stereotypes. Concerns about music usage in relation to cultural appropriation are also being…
Descriptors: Music Education, Equal Education, Musical Instruments, Music Activities
Adams, Kari; Springer, D. Gregory; Geringer, John M.; Nápoles, Jessica; Davis, M. Nicole – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of transitional elements on listeners' aesthetic responses. Participants (N = 81) viewed an excerpt of a choral performance while manipulating a Continuous Response Digital Interface to record their aesthetic responses. Participants in one group viewed the original choral performance, which…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Activities, Music Education, Comparative Analysis
Corey Sullivan – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this scoping review was to synthesize literature regarding audio streaming in the P-12 music classroom by identifying the varied uses, recommendations for equitable access, and gaps in the knowledge base. A total of 23 publications met the criteria for inclusion. Ensemble and general music classrooms in elementary, middle, and high…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Computer Software
James A. Middleton – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
An extended (and probably unnecessary) parallel is drawn between engagement in mathematics and engagement in musical performance. Key facets of engagement are described and a model of how mathematics engagement plays out in task-level activities is discussed in light of new findings related to its social and emotional facets. Implications for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Processes, Music, Learner Engagement