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Selected Music Education Titles

Alternative Approaches in Music Education by Ann C. Clements
Call Number: MT3.U5 A47 2010
ISBN: 9781607098560
Publication Date: 2010-10-16
This book provides personalized case studies of music programs that are engaging in alternative approaches. The diversity of these real-world case studies will inspire questioning and curiosity, stimulate lively discussion and innovation, and provide much food for thought.
Building Strong Music Programs by Charlene Ryan
Call Number: MT1 .R95 2009
ISBN: 9781607091219
Publication Date: 2009
While program building is an essential, time-consuming part of every music teacher's job, students are rarely prepared for it. Ryan covers issues important to student teachers, new teachers, teachers changing schools, and teachers looking to rejuvenate their existing programs.
Choral Music by Barbara A. Brinson; Steven M. Demorest
Call Number: MT930 .B82 2014
ISBN: 1133599664
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
This essential text provides choral music educators with a well-organized, practical introduction to directing choirs and managing choral programs at the middle-school through high-school level. It offers step-by-step advice on designing and administering a choral program, from curricula to repertoire to performance, and helps instructors develop a personal philosophy of music education.
Crowd Control by Susan L. Haugland
Call Number: Print Books MT1 .H38 2013
ISBN: 9781475803624
Publication Date: 2013-02-07
Crowd Control 2nd edition is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical 'how-to' guide shows teachers, pre-service or experienced, efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms.
A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music by Ann C. Clements; Rita Klinger
Call Number: MT3.U5 C54 2010
ISBN: 9780415994583
Publication Date: 2010
A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music is a practical guide focused on the link between music education coursework and the field-based aspects of the student teaching experience. It addresses general topics that are common to all music placements, as well as those topics that are of specific interest to the general, choral, and instrumental music classrooms.
Including Everyone by Judith A. Jellison
Call Number: Print Books MT1 .J35 2015
ISBN: 9780199358762
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
Including Everyone equips music teachers with five principles of effective instruction for mixed special needs / traditional settings that are applicable in both classroom and rehearsal rooms alike. These five guidelines lay out Jellison's argument for a new way to teach music that shifts attention away from thinking of children in terms of symptoms.
Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education by William M. Anderson; Patricia Shehan Campbell
Call Number: MT1 .M93 2010
ISBN: 9781607095392
Publication Date: 2011
Broadly based and practically oriented, the book will help you develop curriculum for an increasingly multicultural society.
The Musical Experience by Janet R. Barrett (Editor); Peter R. Webster (Editor)
Call Number: Print Books MT1 .M987365 2014
ISBN: 9780199363049
Publication Date: 2014-08-12
The Musical Experience proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education.The editors and their contributors define musical experience as being characterized by the depth of affective and emotional responses that music engenders, and illustrate that its breadth is embodied in the infinite variety of meanings - both personal and communal - that music evokes.
Music Education in Your Hands by Michael L. Mark; Patrice Madura
Call Number: MT3.U5 M327 2010
ISBN: 9780415800907
Publication Date: 2009-11-20
Written for future classroom music teachers, the book provides an overview of the music education system , illuminating the many topics that music educators need to know, including technology, teaching methods, curricular evolution, legislation, and a range of societal needs from cultural diversity to evolving tastes in music. I
Music Matters by David J. Elliott; Marissa Silverman
Call Number: Print Books MT1 .E435 2014
ISBN: 9780195334043
Publication Date: 2014-06-23
Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and valuesof musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more.
Planning instruction in music : writing objectives, assessments, and lesson plans to engage artistic processes by Frank Abrahams, author.; Ryan John, author
Call Number: Print Books (MT1 .A276 2015 )
Publication Date: 2015
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom by Nicole Biamonte (Editor)
Call Number: MT1 .P638 2011
ISBN: 9780810876637
Publication Date: 2010
This essay collection 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.

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