MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning Volume 2: Applications

by Colwell, Richard; Webster, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199754342
• ISBN10: 0199754349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 2: Applicationsbrings together the best and most current research on best practice for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession's empirical and conceptual knowledge of how students gain competence in music at various ages and in different contexts. The collection of chapters, written by the foremost figures active in the field, addresses a range of best practices for approaching current and important areas in the field, including cognition and perception, music listening, vocal/choral learning, and the needs of special learners. The book's companion volume,Strategies, provides the solid theoretical framework and extensive research upon which these practices stand. Throughout both volumes in this essential set, focus is placed on the musical knowledge and musical skills needed to perform, create, understand, reflect on, enjoy, value, and respond to music. A key point of emphasis rests on the relationship between music learning and finding meaning in music, and as music technology plays an increasingly important role in learning today, chapters move beyond exclusively formal classroom instruction into other forms of systematic learning and informal instruction. Either individually or paired with its companionVolume 1: Strategies, this indispensable overview of this growing area of inquiry will appeal to students and scholars in Music Education, as well as front-line music educators in the classroom.

Author Biography

Richard Colwell is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the University of Illinois and the New England Conservatory of Music. He is the founding editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. He is also a Guggenheim scholar and a member of MENC's Hall of Fame. He is co-editor of The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, as well as editor of The MENC Handbook of Research Metholodolgoies and The MENC Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development.
Peter R. Webster is Professor of Music Education and Director of the Center for Music Technology at Northwestern University School of Music, and co-author (with David Brian Williams) of Experiencing Music Technology

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xv
Contemporary Research on Music Listening: A Holistic View	p. 3
The Acquisition of Music Reading Skills	p. 61
Music, Movement, and Learning	p. 92
Self-Regulation of Musical Learning: A Social Cognitive Perspective on Developing Performance Skills	p. 130
Research on Elementary and Secondary School Singing	p. 176
Music Learning in Special Education: Focus on Autism and Developmental Disabilities	p. 233
Music Learning in Early Childhood: A Review of Psychological, Educational, and Neuromusical Research	p. 256
Index	p. 291
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