Music: By Subject Subject Guide
Education
8 resources available
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Books about Music Education
Theory and history, MT 1-5; Techniques and methods, MT 918-948 (General Stacks); Textbooks (K-12): LT (Textbooks location)
Dictionary of Music Education: A Handbook of Terminology
Ref MT 1 .E49 2005
Dictionary of terminology common to the music education profession. Also includes lists of textbooks and reference books by subject area, tests, web sites, organizations, and journals/magazines for music education.
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Dedicated to teaching and movement methods of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman.
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, Tutorial
This database is also available from ProQuest and from the US government.
Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Materials
Links to resources with lesson plans in many subjects, selected by librarians in WMU's Education Library.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
With more than 75,000 members, MENC is the largest organization in the U.S. supporting music education. Site includes teaching resources and information about all aspects of the field.
Music Education Resource Links (MERL)
Links to curriculum resources, organized by the nine national content standards as presented by the National Standards for Art Education.
Ultimate Guide to Music Education Standards K-12
Information about and links to the standards, as well as to curriculum resources and materials and other information related to music education.
Contents
- African American Music
- American Music
- Band
- Brass
- Chamber Music
- Choral
- Composers
- Contemporary and Computer Music
- Copyright and Music Industry
- Education
- Film and Television Music
- History and Musicology
- Instruments
- Jazz
- Keyboard
- Musical Theatre
- Opera
- Orchestra and Orchestral Music
- Percussion
- Pop/Rock/Rap/Folk
- Songs and Sheet Music
- String and Plectral Instruments
- Theory, Analysis, Composition
- Therapy
- Voice
- Women in Music
- Woodwinds
- World Music
