Research Guides: Music Education: Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Music Encyclopedias

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Most respected encyclopedia on all aspects of music. Includes biographical essays of composers and musical personalities, overviews of music history, musical instrument development, and works listings for composers. Note: four simultaneous users

Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century
Includes biographical info as well as works listings for concert music as well as pop music personalities.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin (Editor)
Publication Date: Online edition

Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Offers biographical essays, digitized content, photographs, and other special materials from the Library of Congress

Music Education Encyclopedias and Handbooks to Surveys and Research Methods

These are electronic encyclopedias that can be searched to define terms and understand how to create and design research projects for music education. The music titles will help to design and focus a research project, while the research methods books will explain terms related to the actual design of a research project. The handbooks to statistics will define terms used in planning and describing a research project.

Dictionary of Music Education by Irma H. Collins; Carolynn A. Lindeman (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780810886513
Useful for definitions used in outlining research projects and result analysis.
MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning by Richard Colwell (Editor); Peter R. Webster (Editor)
This volume includes discussions of application of research.
The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning by Richard Colwell (Editor); Carol P. Richardson (Editor); Music Educators National Conference Staff (Contribution by)
Useful for background information in setting up descriptions of research projects.
MENC Handbook of Research Methodologies by Richard Colwell
Great for designing research projects; includes qualitative and quantitative research methods, suggestions for data collection, and related analysis.
MENC Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development by Richard Colwell (Editor); Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) Staff (Contribution by)
Numerous research studies related to how children learn and perform music.
Encyclopedia of Education
ISBN: 002865594X
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics by Neil J. Salkind
Overview of terms and theories in scientific measurement and statistics. Good for designing research projects and survey methods.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Good descriptions of analysis methods and interpretation of data.

SAGE Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
More than 600 entries about important topics across the entirety of survey methodology, from survey design to result analysis.
SAGE Knowledge
Limit to just Education encyclopedias by using the "browse by discipline" limit. Then search within each education title or in the entire Sage reference book collection.
Creative Activites for Young Bands
Workbook with lesson plans by Matthew Clauhs

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Music Education Encyclopedias and Handbooks to Surveys and Research Methods