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2026

Music Education Resources to Commemorate America’s 250th

2026

Arts Education Funding: A Two-Year National Snapshot

2026

Strengthening Arts Education at the State Level: MAESTRO Act Resources

2025

Early Career Teacher Mini-Series

Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory. Offering bachelor's and master's degrees in music education. Apply now.

NAfME Journals

NAfME publishes five peer-reviewed journals available to members as part of their membership; all are available online to members at no additional cost.

Music Educators Journal

Peer-reviewed scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, and more.

Journal of Research in Music Education

Peer-reviewed journal comprising reports of original research related to music teaching and learning.

Journal of General Music Education

Peer-reviewed journal describing successful practices from early childhood through high school.

Update: Applications of Research in Music Education

Peer-reviewed journal presenting reviews of research studies without research terminology or jargon.

Journal of Music Teacher Education

Peer-reviewed research journal includes general interest articles and research articles related to music teacher education.

Research and Music Teacher Education

Research and music teacher education are among the cornerstones of the NAfME Strategic Plan. Learn more about the work of the Society for Research in Music Education and the Society for Music Teacher Education.

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Music Standards

The 2014 Music Standards are all about Music Literacy. The standards emphasize conceptual understanding in areas that reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage: Creating, Performing, and Responding.

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NAfME BLOG

September 29, 2026

From Sound through Soma to Symbol

Students of all ages benefit from internalizing musical sounds before encountering the symbols that represent them. Only after embodied experience can students truly understand and reproduce Guido d’Arezzo’s secret codes, now commonly called “music notation.”