MUEP 240 : General Music Methods I
About Research in Music Education
In LUCIA,
the Library of Congress subject Heading for music education is "music instruction and study."
Other key words, such as the phrase "general music" will also be useful in finding relevent information on your subject.
"Browse by subject" (below) using subject terms, or just the beginning portion.
For instance, browsing "music instruction and study" will give you over 200 items that contain that title and also
other subject headings that may be of interest, such as "Kindergarten music."
Material on music education can be drawn from many fields like music, education, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and even medicine, just to name a few. In addition to consulting catalogs and indexes, be sure to look at bibliographies supplied at the end of relevant articles, chapters, and books, and to search library catalogs for book-length bibliographies.
Your sources must be fully documented in your final bibliography. Use APA format for your citations:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
RRef. BF76.7 .P83 2001
The Ready Reference area of the Mudd also has A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker, RRef. PE1408 .H26 2004, which comprises clarity, grammar, punctuation, mechanics and research sources in the MLA, APA, and Chicago formats along with usage and grammatical terms. If you are just looking for the correct format for your bibliographic citations, this short-cut manual may help you.
The sources listed in this guide were chosen specifically for this course. Direct links are provided to Internet resources and searchable databases, as well as links to LUCIA, the library's online catalog. Be sure to check the library's Electronic Resources page regularly to see new Databases, Indexes, Web Resources; some of these will only be available to users on the Lawrence campus. Also, you may want to take a look at guides on related topics from the Library Research Guides page.
Evaluating the resources you find is an essential part of the research process. See this guide to hints on evaluation of books and articles and this guide to evaluating Internet resources.
As always, if you have any questions be sure to ask a Reference Librarian.
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Research Guides
A Guide to Research in Music Education. Roger P. Phelps.
3rd floor: MT1 .P5 2005
The Reflective Conservatoire: Studies in Music Education. George Odam and Nicholas Bannan, ed.
(for music education in Great Britain)
3rd floor: MT3 .E5 R44 2005
The Music Practitioner: Research for the Music Performer, Teacher, and Listener. Jane W. Davidson, ed.
3rd floor: ML3830 .M9815 2004
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Browse By Subject
("Subject begins with..." in LUCIA)
These are by no means the only subject headings that may be helpful to your research topic. When you find a useful item in LUCIA, look at the subject headings describing that item. Those may lead you to more materials on the same subject.
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Smithsonian Global Sound (Access from LUCIA)
Online, on-campus resource
"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 10 vols.
Ref. [q.] ML100 .G16 1998
Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom. Carol Frierson-Campbell, 2 vols.
3rd floor, MT1 .T387 2006
Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education. William M. Anderson and Patricia Shehan Campbell, eds.
3rd floor, quarto [q.] MT1 .M93 1996
Global Music Series. Multiple authors
3rd floor
This series ("Title begins with.." search in LUCIA,) consists of 6 titles, all having to do with expressing various cultures using music.
American Musical Traditions. Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin, eds.
3rd floor, quarto [q.] ML3551 .A53 2002
Five volumes encompassing sources for American music: Native American music, African American music, British Isles music, European American music, and Latino and Asian American music.
Making Connections: Multicultural Music and the National Standards. William M. Anderson and Marvelene C. Moore, eds.
3rd floor, quarto [q.] MT10 .M15 1993
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Databases, Indexes and Online Resources
Use indexes to find citations, abstracts and sometimes full-text of periodical articles or full-text of books or other documents. These are all available from the pull-down menu on the Library Research page unless otherwise noted.
Smithsonian Global Sound (Access from LUCIA)
Online, on-campus resource
"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."
ERIC
Journal articles and reports in education from 1966 to the present.
RILM
"RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world."
EBSCOhost
Follow the link for EBSCOhost Web. Searches a single database or multiple databases, including ERIC and RILM. Contains broad and
specialized coverage of academic and general periodicals. Use the Go or
Back button on your browser after exiting EBSCOhost to leave the system.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. (Access from LUCIA.)
Paper, 1997-2002. Electronic full text access from Fall-Winter, 2002 (Vol. 21) through the present. Indexed in RILM and ERIC.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Broad coverage of academic periodicals from 1980 to the present. Includes full text of some articles.
PsychInfo
Searches all PsycINFO journals, books and chapter records from 1887 to present.
PsychArticles
Search the full text of journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Sociological Abstracts
Articles on all aspects of sociology.
ISI Social Science Citation Index
A multi-disciplinary citation index in the social sciences.
Once you have a citation for an article on your topic and there is no electonic link to the full text, look in LUCIA for the title of the journal to see if the library owns it. You should also search BESS, an automated search of the library's fulltext databases, for electronic copies of articles.
It's important to think carefully about any information you find in any format, and to evaluate resources for their accuracy, applicability, and so forth. Evaluation of web resources is especially important. You may want to consult this guide to Evaluating Internet Resources, or this bibliography on Evaluation of Information Sources. You can often learn a lot about a page (and a site) by parsing the URL.
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Definitions of terms and abbreviations:
Ref. = Reference collection, first floor
RRef.= Ready reference, shelves behind the reference desk
Periodicals = Current issues; Level A
Periodical Back Files = Level A
GovDoc = U.S. Government Documents, second floor
Reference Indexes = Alphabetically arranged at the end of the reference collection
Microform Area = Reading room east of the reference desk, near microform drawers
q. = Oversized books: interfiled in reference and scores; at end of classes in other collections
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