Piano Pedagogy

A Research and Information Guide

Gilles Comeau

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135914844
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field. The book will includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources.

Part I

Access Points for Research in Piano Pedagogy

1 Indexes and Databases

1.1 Pluridisciplinary

1. Academic Search Premier. (As far back as 1975, depending on titles, to present.) Ipswich, MA: EBSCO.

URL:http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=1&marketID=1

Key words: ethnography and music education, anthropology and music education, cognitive and music education and musicians/injuries

Academic Search Premier is a very large, multidisciplinary database of scholarly journals, newspapers and popular magazines. It includes a wide collection of active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals, and PDF back files to the 1970s are available for a large selection of journals. Most references contain author-supplied abstracts, key words, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and searchable cited references. This database covers the following subjects: biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, law, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, and more. Presents a good starting point for an overview of issues relating to piano pedagogy, with a substantial selection of articles relating to musicians and health-related injuries.

2. Annual Reviews. (As far back as 1932, depending on titles, to present.) Palo Alto, CA.

URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/

Key words: ethnography and music education, music performance, music and language, music psychology, auditory psychophysics, music and cognition

Annual Reviews is a frequently cited database covering more than 30 disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences, including topics such as sociology, psychology, and the neurosciences. Annual Reviews, the producers of the database, is a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide the worldwide scientific community with a synthesis of the primary research literature. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary literature. Significant primary research is reviewed on an annual basis to guide the user to the principal contributions in the field. Of particular interest for the researcher in piano pedagogy are articles relevant to music psychology and neuroscience, especially regarding musical processing, tonal structures in perception and music, and auditory psychophysics.

3. Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). (1975–). Thomson Scientific.

URL: http://scientific.thomson.com/products/ahci/

Key words: music and education, music and psychology, ethnomusicology, music and injury, music and cognition, piano pedagogy

Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a tool that provides access to bibliographic information, cited references, and abstracts found in almost 1,130 leading journals in the arts and humanities as well as 7,000 journals in science and social sciences. It is available in print and CD-ROM, published three times per year, updated weekly online and accessible via the Web of Science. Online searches can be restricted by language and type of document including music performance review, music score, music score review, and article. Frequently indexed journals include 65 related to music, with a few on music education, ethnomusicology, and music and computers.

4. CAIRN Journals. (2001–). Cairn.

URL: www.cairn.info

Key words: éducation musicale, psychologie et enfant, musique et psychologie

CAIRN Journals provides abstracts and full-text articles from French journals in the humanities and social sciences in both HTML and PDF format. The coverage includes psychology, literature, linguistics, education, sports, and sociology. Search keys are title, author, and key word. It provides easy access to journals of interest for research in piano pedagogy.

5. DDM-Online. (1996–). Bloomington, IN: Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University.

URL: http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/

Key words: piano, piano teaching

DDM-Online is an international database that includes over 13,400 records of bibliographical information on completed and in-progress dissertation topics in music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, as well as related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Provides a broad index highlighting all musical eras and more. Opened to the public in 1996, it is updated periodically throughout the year and it is searchable by author and/or key words. Researchers in piano pedagogy will find a number of theses related to piano learning and teaching.

6. Erudit. (1998–). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal. URL: www.erudit.org

Key words: music education, child development, psychology and music, ethnomusicology

Erudit is intended to promote and disseminate the results of scholarly research in a wide range of disciplines in the human, social, and natural sciences. Supported by the Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (the Quebec Fund for Research on Society and Culture), it also serves as a site for the diffusion of many journals from universities in Quebec and the rest of Canada. Online theses from universities in North America and Europe and a small number of digital books and conference proceedings are also available to users. Each type of document is searchable independently; the search fields vary with different search engines. It is mainly used to search journals and theses in French although some English information is available, especially via the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

7. Expanded Academic ASAP. (1980–). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning.

URL: http://www.gale.cengage.com

Key words: music and psychology and child, music and child and development, music and injury

Expanded Academic ASAP provides access to the indexed full text of many journals in a broad range of disciplines including social sciences, humanities, education, medicine, and science and technology. Over half of these titles are peer-reviewed. It also covers national news periodicals, general interest magazines, and The New York Times (Index only). It provides back files to the 1980s. The database is searchable by key word, title, author, subject, ISBN and ISSN, among others. It is also possible to limit results to only peer-reviewed titles. This is a good tool for searching a large number of periodicals in the various fields of interest for piano pedagogy research.

8. FRANCIS. (1972–). Paris, France: Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique.

URL: http://international.inist.fr/

Key words: music education and psychology, ethnomusicology and education, music and technology, music and technology and education, computer and music and education

FRANCIS was developed by l’Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) based in Paris, and it provides access to a large number of bibliographic references and abstracts in humanities and social sciences with back files to the 1970s. It covers topics such as art history, education, ethnology, history of science, linguistics, psychology, public health, computers, and sociology. The database mainly contains journal articles, but also books, proceedings, reports, dissertations and exhibition catalogs, among other resources. Documents are primarily European, with a small number coming from Canada, the United States, and other countries. Most are in French and English, but there are some in German, Italian, Spanish, or other languages. All entries are indexed in French and English. FRANCIS is available either online (monthly update) or on CD-ROM (available quarterly).

9. Humanities Full Text. (1984–present with full text from 1995). Bronx, New York: The HW Wilson Company.

URL: http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/humani.cfm

Key words: music, film, philosophy, history, drama

Humanities Full Text provides bibliographic indexing and abstracts of a large number of periodicals, with back files to the 1980s, over half of which are peer-reviewed. It includes the full text of a large number of periodicals going back to the 1990s. The database covers topics such as archeology, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, history, music, philosophy, religion, and social criticism, and contains feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of musicals, operas, plays, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, television and radio programs and more. It is searchable by key word, subject, title, publication, year, and type of article. The online database is updated daily; WilsonDisc (the CD-ROM version) is updated monthly.

10. Index to Theses. (1716–). London, England: Expert Information Ltd.

URL: http://www.theses.com/

Key words: music education, music reading, distance teaching, ethnomusicology

Index to Theses is a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Requires subscription for online access. Covers multidisciplinary topics. Includes about 200 references on piano and piano playing.

11. JSTOR (The Scholarly Journal Archive). (Dates vary with titles.) Sun Microsystems.

URL: http://www.jstor.org/

Key words: music education, music reading, music and motivation, ethnomusicology

The Scholarly Journal Archive offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. It is a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is not a current issue database, and, therefore, there is a gap, typically from one to five years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Disciplines found in this database include: music (e.g. Musical Quarterly, Musical Times, Notes, Tempo, British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Journal of Music Theory, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Royal Musical Association), performing arts (e.g. PAJ: Performing Arts Journal), education (e.g. College Education, History of Education Quarterly), and psychology (Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Psychology). Articles on motivation and learning, music education, distance education and piano teaching can all be found in this database.

12. MLA International Bibliography. (1921–). New York, NY: Modern Language Association.

URL: http://www.mla.org/bibliography

Key words: music education, music and psychology, music and cognition

MLA International Bibliography provides citations of books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, journals and bibliographies among other publications on literature from all over the world, including literary theory and criticism, modern languages, linguistics, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theatre), the history of printing and publishing, as well as folklore (including folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems). It is available in print and various online formats. The electronic version, updated 10 times per year, contains all printed entries from 1926 to the present day. The print version covers all entries since 1921. The information can be searched by classification heading, document title or author, subject-index terms, language of the text and, for articles, by the journal name. For research in piano pedagogy, this tool provides a quick way of finding citations of documents on music education and culture, sociomusicology, and the psychology of music.

13. Project MUSE. (Dates vary with titles.) Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/

Key words: ethnomusicology, music and distance learning, piano pedagogy, piano performance, music education and cognition

Project MUSE, a multi-subject database, offers full-text articles from a large number of high-quality scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Subjects include education, performing arts and music. Journals available include: Education and Culture, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of General Education, the Journal of Higher Education, Philosophy of Music Education Review, and the Review of Higher Education. It provides access to information on many aspects of teaching and learning that can be applied to piano pedagogy.

14. ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses Abstracts. (1637–). Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest LLC.

URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

Key words: piano, piano pedagogy, piano teaching, piano education, music education, sight-reading, piano performance, music reading

ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses Abstracts is a key source for finding doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Includes more than 2 mill...