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Lucia Lanaro; Andrea Bobbio; Michele Biasutti; Evangelos Himonides – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
This study aims to investigate leadership in orchestra conducting and interrogate educational principles to improve conducting pedagogy. Effective leadership implies a set of interpersonal, communicational, and emotional skills combined with a high level of expertise, which may enable the leader to not only achieve excellent outcomes but also…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Music Education, Music Activities, Teaching Methods
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Schmidt, Casey – Music Educators Journal, 2021
This article suggests pathways for supporting habits of creativity and the development of creative mindsets in performance-ensemble learning spaces. The Wallas model of creative thought is used to frame the concept of creative musical mindsets. The author reflects on the assumptions and principles outlined in the stages of this influential model…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Creativity, Skill Development
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Shuler, Pamela; Shuler, Sidney – Gifted Education International, 2021
The issue of parenting children and adolescents who demonstrate an aptitude or potential for music has not been extensively investigated or written about. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the relevant issues in this domain and offer some guidance and suggestions for parents who may have a child who demonstrates a proclivity for…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Music, Early Experience, Music Activities
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Siw Graabraek Nielsen; Anne Jordhus-Lier; Sidsel Karlsen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article explores musical parenting in Norwegian schools of music and arts. These schools aim to provide extra-curricular activities in music and other art forms to "all" children and adolescents regardless of their social and economic background, but the schools reveal traits of social and cultural exclusion, serving mainly the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Child Rearing, Parent Role
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Oliver Curbelo-González; Paula Hernández-Dionis; Cristina Martín Sanz; David Pérez-Jorge – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
Numerous studies have demonstrated the substantial advantages of integrating music education into the overall development of students, particularly in early childhood education. This integration allows for combining music education with various curriculum areas, utilizing its playful and motivating nature as a practical methodological tool for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Music Education, Program Implementation, Music Teachers
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Esa Virkkula – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
This article explores the work of conductors to develop an understanding of verbal feedback in the context of professional-level big band orchestras. A big band conductor must have strong musical and social skills to guide a big band to the performance level. This qualitative study is based on Vygotsky's theory of learning as a social process. The…
Descriptors: Music, Drills (Practice), Administrators, Musicians
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Jonathan Kladder; Katy Strand – Contributions to Music Education, 2025
The purpose of this study was to investigate the required music performance assessment (MPA) repertoire lists performed by high school and middle school choral and band programs in the state of North Carolina. The authors analyzed the number of pieces, composers, and ethnic and gender representations on the state MPA band and choral lists. In…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Music Education, High Schools, Middle Schools
Stanley, David J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
What should the core purpose of educational wind bands in the United States be? Many music students may not pursue the activity in college (or may not even play a band instrument again after their formal schooling). Musical and artistic values, however, can be applied in creative practice throughout one's life. This dissertation explores what it…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Music Activities, Place Based Education
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Jenna Richards; Erin Parkes – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
Attending a concert may prove difficult for individuals with exceptionalities or disabilities and those who support them. While traditional performance environments may not feel welcoming or amenable for individuals with exceptionalities and their families, arts organizations have recently made efforts to produce concerts that address barriers to…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Sensory Experience, Performance, Caregiver Attitudes
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Jihae Shin – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Korean novice music teachers and its role in constructing music teacher identity. Five music teachers participated in this study, and I used two data collection methods, reflective journaling and…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Professional Identity, Correlation
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Cheng Chao; Arsenio Nicolas – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
This study focuses on the evolution and literacy transmission of the Suona ensemble in Southwest Shandong Province, China, which encompasses a rich tapestry of traditional and modern educational methods spanning familial inheritance, master-apprentice relationships, selfstudy, and formal training schools. Drawing on interviews with key informants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Literacy, Music Activities
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E. Lydia Wu-Chung; Anthony K. Brandt; Melia E. Bonomo; Bryan T. Denny; Christof Karmonik; J. Todd Frazier; Karl Blench; Christopher P. Fagundes – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Maintaining healthy cognitive functioning and delaying cognitive decline in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired adults are major research initiatives for addressing dementia disease burden. Music interventions are promising, non-pharmaceutical treatment options for preserving cognitive function and psychological health in older adults with…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music Activities, Neurological Impairments, Mild Disabilities
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Koner, Karen M.; Weaver, Abigayle – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of mindfulness practices on high school band students. This action research project took place in spring 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home orders. Four students enrolled in the high school band participated in five weeks of mindfulness practice interventions over the virtual format…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Metacognition, High School Students, Music Activities
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Young, Vanessa; Goouch, Kathleen; Powell, Sacha – British Journal of Music Education, 2022
The Babysong Project arose out of the Baby Room Project and its aims included supporting baby room practitioners to develop 'communicative musicality' (Malloch & Trevarthen 2009), extending research knowledge about baby room practices and helping practitioners to explore opportunities to question and adapt their own ways of working with babies…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Child Language, Child Development
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Chen, Yannleon – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
This observational study examines the use of the German hip-hop music video, "Gute Menschen" by the band OK KID (2015), as a basis for developing students' symbolic competence regarding contemporary discourse on racism in Germany. Based on earlier investigations (Putnam, 2006; Sosulski, 2013), this article advocates for the use of German…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, College Students, Music
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