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Volume 102 Issue 4, June 2016
Featherless Dinosaurs and the Hip-Hop Simulacrum: Reconsidering Hip-Hop’s Appropriateness for the Music Classroom |
Adam J. Kruse |
Do Students See Themselves in the Music Curriculum? |
Gretchen Peters |
Fostering Musical Independence |
Eric Shieh and Randall Everett Allsup |
Singing, Sissies, and Sexual Identity: How LGBT Choral Directors Negotiate Gender Discourse |
Nicholas R. McBride |
Applications of Peer and Self-Assessment in Music |
Christopher Valle, Heidi Andrade, Maria Palma, and Joanna Hefferen |
Conceptualizing Conceptual Teaching: Practical Strategies for Large Instrumental Ensembles |
Leonard Tan |
Sound Foundations: Organic Approaches to Learning Notation in Beginning Band |
Chad West |
Thinking in Music from the Very Beginning: Introducing an After-School Band Project |
Laura Sindberg |
Another Perspective: Re-Placing Music Education |
Sandra Stauffer |
Volume 103 Issue 1, September 2016
Front Row Seats: Preparing young Audiences for Live Performances |
Rekha S. Rajan |
Learning through Immersive Study: Contextualizing Music in the Elementary Music Classroom |
Ayah Rifai |
Using Engagement Theory to Establish Musical Collaborative Opportunities |
Phillip D. Payne |
Software-Based Scoring and Sound Design: an Introductory Guide for Music Technology Instruction |
Daniel Walzer |
Educating the Music User |
Mark C. Adams |
“But I Never Thought I’d Teach the Little Kids” – Secondary Teachers and Early-Grades Music Instruction |
Karen Salvador and Keith Corbett |
The Music of the Spheres: Cross-Curricular Perspectives on Music and Science |
George L. Rogers |
Volume 103 Issue 2, December 2016
Student-Centered Classrooms: Past Initiatives, Future Practices |
Dee Hansen |
Curious, Collaborative, Creative: Applying Student-Centered Principle to Performing Ensembles |
Ashley Danielle Gilbert |
Cultural Diversity: Resources for Music Educators in Selected Works |
Eunjung Choi and Laura J. Keith |
Enhanced Learning for Young Music Students: Involving and Motivating Parents |
Diane Briscoe |
Conducting Expressively: Navigating Seven Misconceptions |
Courtney Snyder |
Play or Possibility? Using German Practice to Influence the Harmonica in Education |
Jacob Prosek |
Reconsidering the Role of Stephen Foster in the Music Classroom |
Jennifer Forness |
Another Perspective: The Every Student Succeeds Act in Your Music Classroom |
Lynn M. Tuttle |
Volume 103 Issue 3, March 2017
Learning to be Creatively Expressive Performers |
Katherine Strand and Brenda Brenner |
The Neuroscience of Improvisation |
Andrew T. Landau and Charles Limb |
Developing Musical Creativity through Improvisation in the Large Performance Classroom |
Martin Nargaard |
Developing Musical Creativity through reflective and Collaborative Practices |
Lisa M. Gruenhagen |
Music Listening is Creative |
John Kratus |
Volume 103 Issue 4, June 2017
Still Making Music: How Students with Traumatic Brain Injury Can Continue with Musical Activities |
Patrick M. Bennington |
Mixing Formal and Informal Pedagogies in a Middle School Guitar Classroom |
Matthew J. Rescsanszky |
Improving Music Teaching through Interpersonal Relationships |
Natalie Steele Royston |
Concept-Based Arts Integration: Lessons Learned from an Application in Music and Biology |
Terry Wolkowicz |
Gifted 101: Unlocking the Mystery of Academically Gifted Education |
Kimberly H. Councill and Lynn Fiedler |
Humanizing the Deities of Jazz |
Scott Jeppesen |
Volume 104 Issue 1, September 2017
Empowering the Music Educator through Action Research |
Richard Laprise |
Multicultural Choral Music Pedagogy Based on the Facets Model |
Hyesoo Yoo |
Teaching Improvisation through Melody and Blues-Based Harmony: A Comprehensive and Sequential Approach |
Leila Heil |
Teaching Materials and Strategies for the AP Music Theory Exam |
Michael T. Lively |
Music Education, Inc. |
Corin T. Overland |
Student Teaching Seminars: Ideas for a Collaborative and Meaningful Culminating Experience |
Kimberly H. Councill and Christopher M. Baumgartner |
Volume 104 Issue 2, December 2017
Learning Together: The Instinct to Do Good and Peer-Assisted Strategies that Work |
Judith A. Jellison, Ellary A. Draper, and Laura S. Brown |
Understanding the Mind of a Student with Autism in the Music Classroom |
Ryan M. Hourigan and Alice M. Hammel |
Steps for Designing Authentic Assessment for Students with Disabilities in Music Classes |
Kimberly VanWeelden and Julia Heath-Reynolds |
Recent and Continuing Initiatives and Practices in Special Education |
Alice-Ann Darrow and Mary S. Adamek |
“I Dream a World”: Inclusivity in Choral Music Education |
Rhona Fuelberth and Christy Todd |
Legal Aspects of Teaching Music Students with Disabilities |
Jean B. Crockett |
Volume 104 Issue 3, March 2018
Critical Listening in the Ensemble Rehearsal: A Community of Learners |
Cindy Bell |
Achieving Greater Musical Independence in Ensembles through Cognitive Apprenticeship |
Brian N. Weidner |
Realizing Entrepreneurship in K–12 Music Education: Inside or Outside the Box? |
Josef Hanson |
The Rainbow Connection: How Music Classrooms Create Safe Spaces for Sexual-Minority Young People |
William G. Southerland |
Constructing Informal Experiences in the Elementary General Music Classroom |
Donna Hewitt |
Assessment in the Private Studio Setting: Supporting Student Learning, Providing Effective Instruction and Building Faculty and Student Interaction |
Jennifer Laubenthal |
Equity in Music Education: Exclusionary Practices in Music Education |
Jacqueline Kelly-McHale |
Volume 104 Issue 4, June 2018
Musicians as Movers: Applying the Feldenkrais Method to Music Education |
Catherine Lee |
The Serious Business of Musical Play in the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum |
Robyn Trinick |
Cuban Cha-Cha-Chá: Applications for Music Education in the United States |
Jeffrey Torchon |
Choosing and Altering Repertoire for the Small Band |
Stacy Dziuk |
Beginning Band without a Stand: Fostering Creative Musicianship in Early Instrumental Programs |
Matthew Clauhs |
Equity in Music Education: “The Journey: A Process for Creating a Socially Just Music Classroom” |
Amanda Soto |
What’s the Problem? Exploring the Potential of Problem-Based Learning in an Ensemble Setting |
Richard Laprise |
Volume 105 Issue 1, September 2018
“It’s Just the Way I Learn!” Inclusion from the Perspective of a Student with a Visual Impairment |
Danni Gilbert |
Preparing Preservice Music Educators to Teach in PreK Settings through the Use of Service Learning |
Roy Legette |
How Positive Festival Results Impact a Music Program |
David Pope |
Music Education in the Era of School Choice |
Lisa Martin |
Race, Class, Gender, and Rhymes: Hip-Hop as a Critical Pedagogy |
Noah Karvelis |
Does School Band Kill Creativity? Embracing New Traditions in School Instrumental Music |
Michael Wall |
Establish Safer Learning Environments Using Student-Centered Music Activities |
Alex Fung |
Volume 105 Issue 2, December 2018
The Composer Goes to the Classroom |
Christina González-Martín |
It’s All about the Voice … for Wind Instrumentalists, Too! |
Valerie Trollinger and Robert T. Sataloff |
Music Education Meets Critical Literacy: A Framework for Guiding Music Listening |
Pamela Beach |
Music Education to Train Hearing Abilities in Children with Cochlear Implants |
James Reifinger |
The Mindful Music Educator: Strategies for Reducing Stress and Increasing Well-Being |
Dana Arbaugh Varona |
Equity in Music Education: Back to Class: Music Education and Poverty |
Vincent C. Bates |
Volume 105 Issue 3, March 2019
Democracy in the Middle School Music Classroom |
Amanda Draper |
High-Impact Experiences through Commissioned Works and Composer Residencies |
Micah Ewing |
An Emerging Process of Assessment in Music Education |
Phillip Payne |
Teaching about the Korean Ganggangsullae Folk Tradition in General Music Class |
Gina J. Yi |
Inside Out: Integrating Creative Practices in the Orchestra Classroom. |
Leo Park |
Equity in Music Education: The Music We Speak: Language and Power in the Urban Classroom |
Judy Lewis |
The Tanglewood Symposium: Popular Music Pedagogy from 1967 to Today |
Ruth Gurgel |
Volume 105 Issue 4, June 2019
A Music Educator’s Guide to Saving the Planet |
Daniel Shevock and Vincent C. Bate |
Developing Growth Mindset in the Ensemble Rehearsal |
Kari Adams |
Promoting Sophisticated Word Use in the Elementary Music Classroom |
Ayah Rifai |
Eurhythmics, “Sufficient” Space, and the Role of Environment with the Child’s Development |
Bonnie Jacobi |
Using Music to Encourage Joint Attention for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Attention as a Reciprocal Relationship |
Mary Crum Scholtens |
Health and Wellness for In-Service and Future Music Teachers: Developing a Self-Care Plan |
Christa Kuebel |
Volume 106 Issue 1, September 2019
Engaging with Popular Music from a Cultural Standpoint: A Concept-Oriented Framework |
Nasim Niknafs |
A Return to Amateurism in Music Education |
John Kratus |
Approximation and Scaffolding in the Modern Band |
Scott Burstein and Bryan Powell |
Popular Music Learning in Choir: Helping Students Find Their Voices |
Julie Kastner |
Mixing it Up: Sound Recording and Music Production in School Music Programs |
Matthew Clauhs |
Volume 106 Issue 2, December 2019
Harnessing Optimism in Response to Musical Challenges |
Seth A. Taft |
Mapping Your Place: Developing a Place-Conscious Music Classroom |
Jonathan G. Schaller |
Labels, Inequity and Advocacy: The “Woman” Composer in the Wind Band World |
Jeffrey Boeckman |
Structured Surround Soundscapes: A Three-Pronged Strategy for Effective and Meaningful Collective Improvisation |
Ng Hoon Hong |
Using Visual Mapping to Promote Higher-Level Thinking in Music-Making |
Joshua Groffman and Zora Mackiewicz-Wolfe |
Equity in Music Education: Diversity in the Choral Classroom |
Dee Ann Gray |
Volume 106 Issue 3, March 2020
The Physicality of Music Production: Investigating the Role of Mindful Practice and Kinesthetic Learning |
Megan Lam |
“Classroometrics”: The Validity, Reliability, and Fairness of Classroom Music Assessments |
Brian Wesolowski |
An Effective and Engaged Followership: Assessing Student Participation in Ensembles |
Douglas C. Orzolek |
Backward Design and Repertoire Selection: Finding Full Expression |
Jocelyn W. Armes |
Fund-a-mental Grant-Writing: Opportunities for Teachers and Researchers |
Jennifer Bugos |
Equity in Music Education: Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation and Understanding the Difference |
Karen Howard |
Volume 106 Issue 4, June 2020
Integrating Literacy within the Performance Classroom |
Cynthia L. Wagoner |
Mastery Goals and Intrinsic Motivation in Instrumental Ensembles |
Olivia Tucker |
Shame in Music Education: Starting the Conversation and Developing Resilience |
Mara E. Culp, Sara K. Jones |
Factors that Affect Participation in Secondary School Music: Reducing Barriers and Increasing Access |
Mara E. Culp, Matthew Clauhs |
Caring and Connectivity: A Framework for Active Caring in the Music Classroom |
Sarah Watts, James Eldreth, Timonty Grant, Julie Renne |
Music Education, Curriculum Design, and Assessment: Imagining a More Equitable Approach |
Jennifer Mellizo |
Equity in Music Education: Making a Place for Everyone |
Mallory Alekna, Soyeon Kang |