Learning and Teaching Resources

AMS-funded Teaching Projects

• Critical Voices: The University of Guelph Book Review Project ⇒
• Music in New Jersey ⇒

Community Shared Resources (seeking contributions!)

Assignments and Activities

Handouts

• Writing About Music: Style Guide ⇒

Syllabi

• Harlem Renaissance & Music Resources ⇒
• Society for American Music Syllabi ⇒

Digital Music Resource Aggregators

• Digital Resources in Musicology ⇒
• Harvard’s Online Resources for Music Scholars ⇒
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): Petrucci Music Library ⇒

Miscellany

• Audio Companion to Alex Ross, Listen to This ⇒
• Audio Companion to Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise ⇒
• Mary Natvig on Teaching Music History ⇒
• Musical Instruments Museum Online ⇒
• University of California Press: Music Style Guide ⇒

Music History Blogs

• Dial M for Musicology ⇒
• The Avid Listener ⇒
• When in Musicology ⇒

Online Courses

• 14th-Century Medieval Notation ⇒
• EdX Courses on Music ⇒
• Khan Academy: Music ⇒
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Music Courses ⇒
• Yale Open Courses: Listening to Music ⇒

Pedagogy Journals

General Teaching and Learning Journals

• College Teaching ⇒
• International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education ⇒
• Journal of Online Learning and Teaching ⇒
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ⇒
• Journal on Excellence in College Teaching ⇒
• The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning ⇒

Music History and Theory Pedagogy Journals

• Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy ⇒
• Music Theory Pedagogy Online ⇒

Writing Pedagogy Journals

• College Composition and Communication ⇒
• Journal of Teaching Writing ⇒
• TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses ⇒

Primary Sources and Archives

• Dismuke ⇒
• English and Scottish Popular Ballads ⇒
• Gallica: The Digital Archive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ⇒
• Library of Congress Performing Arts Division ⇒
• MDZ: Munich Digitization Center ⇒
• Morgan Library and Museum: Music Manuscripts Online ⇒
• NBC Universal Radio Archives ⇒
• New York Philharmonic Archives ⇒
• Operabase ⇒
• Sheet Music Consortium ⇒
• The English Broadside Ballads Archive ⇒
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940 to 1950 ⇒
• WPA California Folk Music Project ⇒

Guides to Using Primary Sources

• Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents ⇒
• Guide to Reading Primary Sources ⇒
• How to Analyze a Primary Source ⇒
• How to Read a Primary Source ⇒
• Oral History Techinques ⇒
• Reading and Writing about Primary Sources ⇒

Print Resources

General Pedagogy (Print)

• A Self-directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning ⇒
• Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty ⇒
• Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment
• How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles of Smart Teaching
• Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty ⇒
• Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty ⇒
• Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning ⇒
• The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning
• What the Best College Teachers Do

Music Pedagogy (Print)

• Materials for Music History Pedagogy: An Annotated Bibliography ⇒
• Teaching Music History
• The Art of Teaching Music
• The Music History Classroom
• Vitalizing Music History Teaching: Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music
• What Do We Want to Teach When we Teach Music? One Apology, Two Short Trips, Three Ethical Dilemmas, and Eighty-two Questions

Resources by Genre

American Music

• Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion ⇒
• Society for American Music Syllabi ⇒
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940 to 1950 ⇒
• WPA California Folk Music Project ⇒

World Music

• University of Washington: Ethnomusicology Library Guide ⇒

Resources by Music Period

18th Century

• A Brief Introduction to the Enlightenment ⇒
• How to Solgeggiare the Eighteenth-Century Way: A Summary Guide in Ten Lessons ⇒
• Soundscape of 18th-Century Paris ⇒

19th century

• Caricatures of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Composers ⇒
• LiederNet Archive ⇒
• Stephen Fry on the Tristan Chord (video) ⇒

20th and 21st Century

• All About Set Theory ⇒
• Caricatures of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Composers ⇒
• City of Light: Paris 1900-1950 ⇒
• Dismuke ⇒
• Teaching History Through Song ⇒
• UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive ⇒
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940 to 1950 ⇒
• WPA California Folk Music Project ⇒

Baroque

• Archive of 17th-Century Madrigals and Arias ⇒
• Texts of the Complete Bach Vocal Works ⇒

Medieval

• 14th-Century Medieval Notation ⇒
• CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant ⇒
• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) ⇒
• Historical Instruments Showcase ⇒
• The Medieval Lyric ⇒
• The Oxford Cantigas de Santa Maria Database ⇒

Renaissance

• Crash Course World History: ‘Luther and the Protestant Reformation’ (video) ⇒
• Crash Course World History: ‘The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?’ (video) ⇒
• Johannes Tinctoris: Complete Theoretical Works ⇒
• The Josquin Research Project ⇒

Teaching and Learning Centers in Higher Ed

• Carnegie-Mellon: Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation ⇒
• Ohio State: University Center for the Advancement of Teaching ⇒
• Princeton: McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning ⇒
• University of Michigan: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching ⇒
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Center for Teaching and Learning ⇒
• Vanderbilt: Center for Teaching ⇒

Video and Audio Resources

• Audio Companion to Alex Ross, Listen to This ⇒
• Audio Companion to Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise ⇒
• Dan Cohen’s Animations (Music Visualizations) ⇒
• Google Arts & Culture ⇒
• Keeping Score ⇒
• Meet the Composer ⇒
• Minute Physics: Why it’s Impossible to Tune a Piano ⇒
• Music History Pedagogy Study Group YouTube Channel ⇒
• Nerdwriter’s YouTube Channel ⇒
• PBS Idea Channel ⇒
• Smalin’s YouTube Channel (Music Visualizations) ⇒