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Music Education: Books

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Recent Books in Music Education

The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

Describes new approaches to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational and skill levels.

The Music and Literacy Connection

Examines those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy

Democracy and Music Education

Challenges many of the foundational assumptions underlying contemporary music education

The Musical Experience

Proposes musical experience as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education.

Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today

A collection of thematically organized essays that illuminate the importance of music education to individuals, communities and nations.

Collaborative Learning in Higher Music Education

Seeks to respond to the challenge of becoming more conscious of the creative and multiple dimensions of social interaction in learning music.

Music Education with Digital Technology

This book draws together innovative practices underpinned by theoretical insight to clarify musical practices of relevance to the transformation of music education.

A Basis for Music Education

Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination and analysis of the fundamental concepts involved in music.

Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research

This book celebrates the diverse ways in which learners of all ages develop and use musical creativity.

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Call Numbers Related to Music Education

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Education
  • 370 Education
  • 371 Schools and their activities, special education
  • 372 Elementary education
    • 372.8
  • 373 Secondary education
  • 374 Adult education
  • 375 Curricula
  • 378 Higher education
  • 379 Public policy issues in education
Music
  • 780 Music
    • 780.7
  • 781 General principles and musical forms
    •  781.4
  • 782 Vocal music
    • 782.5
  • 783 Music for single voices
    • 783.1
  • 784 Instruments, ensembles, and their music
  • 785 Ensembles with only one instrument per part
  • 786 Keyboard, mechanical, electrophonic, percussion instruments
  • 787 Stringed instruments
    •  787.4
  • 788 Wind instruments

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