Resources

Suggested Reading

• Altenmüller, Eckart, Stanley Finger, and Francois Boller, eds. Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives. Elsevier, 2015.

• Anvari, Sima H., Laurel Trainor, Jennifer Woodside, and Betty Ann Levy. “Relations Among Musical Skills, Phonological Processing, and Early Reading Ability in Preschool Children.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 83, no. 2 (October 2002): 111-130. 

• Bader, Jane Jones. “Sequencing Aural Skills in Elementary Piano Literature.” DMA diss., University of South Carolina, 2001.

• Bahnson, Frederic. Better Than Destiny: Practical Science for Creating the Life You Want. Austin, TX: Lioncrest Publishing, 2021.

• Baker, Mitzi. "Music Moves Brain To Pay Attention, Stanford Study Finds." news release, Stanford School of Medicine, http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2007/july/music.html 16 (2007). 

• Bevill, Kim. Top Ten Things: The Neuroscience on Sex Differences, Music, Gaming and More. n.p.: Balboa Press, 2021.

• Bilhartz, Terry, Rick Bruhn, and Judith Olson. “The Effect of Early Music Training on Child Cognitive Development.” Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 20, no. 4 (1999): 615-636.

• Blanchard, Keith. Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2023.

• Bloom, Benjamin. Developing Talent in Young People. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985.

• Bugaj, Katarzyna, and Brenda Brenner. “The Effects of Music Instruction on Cognitive Development and Reading Skills—An Overview.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 189 (2011): 89-104.

• Burnett, William, and David J. Evans. Designing Your Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

• Butzlaff, Ron. “Can Music Be Used to Teach Reading?” Journal of Aesthetic Education 34, no. 3/4 (2000): 167-78.

• Camp, Max W. Developing Piano Performance: A Teaching Philosophy. Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 1981, p. 57.

• Camp, Max W. Teaching Piano: The Synthesis of Mind, Ear and Body. Los Angeles, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 1992, p.55.

• Cassidy, Jane W., and Donald R. Speer. “Music Terminology: A Transfer from Knowledge to Practical Use.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 106 (Fall,1990): 11-21.

• Chao-Fernández, Rocío, Sara Román-García, and Aurelio Chao-Fernández. "Art, Science and Magic: Music and Math the Classroom." In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, pp. 1-5. 2017.

• Collins, Anita. “Neuroscience Meets Music Education: Exploring the Implications of Neural Processing Models on Music Education Practice.” International Journal of Music Education 31, no.2 (2013): 217-231.

• Condello, Robert Anthony. Effects of Sequencing on Meaningful Learning. Hofstra University, 1975.

• Cook, Stephen. “Through The Eyes Of a Child: Pianistic Paths For The Smallest Learners.” American Music Teacher 66, no.6 (2017): 10-13.

• Cranmore, Jeff, and Jeanne Tunks. “Brain Research on the Study of Music and Mathematics: A Meta-Synthesis.” Journal of Mathematics Education 8, no. 2 (2015): 139-157.

• Ellenberger, Carl. Theme and Variations: Musical Notes by a Neurologist. n.p.: Promusica Press, 2019.

• Fernandez, Sabrina. "Music and Brain Development." Pediatric Annals 47, no. 8 (2018): e306-e308.

• Flowers, Patricia J. “The Effect of Instruction in Vocabulary and Listening on Nonmusicians’ Descriptions of Changes in Music.” Journal of Research in Music Education 31, no. 3 (1983): 179-189.

• Flowers, Patricia J. “Music Vocabulary of First-Grade Children: Words Listed for Instruction and their Actual Use.” Journal of Research in Music Education 46, no. 1 (1998): 5-15.

• Fort, Marty. The Ultimate Guide to Music Lessons: For Parents, Students, or Anyone Who’s Ready to Play Music! Little Rock, AR: Expert Press, 2018.

• Gamble, Denise Kath. A Study of the Effects of Two Types of Tonal Pattern Instruction on the Audiational and Performance Skills of First-Year Clarinet Students. Temple University, 1989.

• Ullman, M. “Music and Language Are Processed by The Same Brain Systems.” Neuroimage Georgetown University Medical Center (2007). Accessed March 21, 2021. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/07092712110.htm.

• Granier-Deferre, Carolyn, Sophie Bassereau, Aurélie Ribeiro, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet, and Anthony J. DeCasper. “A Melodic Contour Repeatedly Experienced by Human Near-Term Fetuses Elicits a Profound Cardiac Reaction One Month after Birth.” PLoS One 6, no. 2 (2011): e17304.

• Grutzmacher, Patricia Ann. “The Effect of Tonal Pattern Training on the Aural Perception, Reading Recognition, and Melodic Sightreading Achievement of First-Year Instrumental Music Students.” Journal of Research in Music Education 35 (1987): 171-181.

• Hair, Harriet I. “Discrimination of Tonal Direction on Verbal and Nonverbal Tasks by First Grade Children.” Journal of Research in Music Education 25 (1977): 197-210.

• Hallam, Susan. “The Power of Music: Its Impact on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People.” International Journal of Music Education 28, no. 3 (2010): 269-289.

• Hamilton, Tara Julia, Julieanne Doai, Andrew Milne, Vicky Saisanas, Andrea Calilhanna, Courtney Hilton, Micah Goldwater, and Richard Cohn. "Teaching Mathematics with Music: A Pilot Study." In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), pp. 927-931. IEEE, 2018.

• Hannon, Erin E., and Laurel J. Trainor. “Music Acquisition: Effects of Enculturation and Formal Training on Development.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11, no. 11 (2007), 466-472.

• Helding, Lynn. The Musician’s MInd: Teaching, Learning, and Performance in the Age of Brain Science. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.

• Hepper, Peter G. “An Examination of Fetal Learning Before and After Birth.” The Irish Journal of Psychology 12, no. 2 (1991): 95-107.

• Hersch, Sarah Smith. Music Educator Shinichi Suzuki: His Teacher Development Program and Studio Teaching. University of Minnesota, 1995.

• Hodges, Donald A. "Implication of Music and Brain Research: This introductory article offers an overview of neuromusical research and articulates some basic premises derived from this research." Music Educators Journal 87, no. 2 (2000): 17-22.

• Hodges, Donald A. “The Child Musician’s Brain.” The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development (2015): 52-66.

• Houser, Larry Lee. Toward a Theory of Sequencing: Study (2, 3)-1: An Exploration of the Effects of Three Instructional Sequences on Achievement of Selected Instructional Objectives in Conversion of Units in the Metric System of Measure. The Pennsylvania State University, 1974.

• Hyde, Krista L., Jason Lerch, Andrea Norton, Marie Forgeard, Ellen Winner, Alan C. Evans, and Gottfried Schlaug. “Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development.” Journal of Neuroscience 29, no. 10 (2009): 3019-3025.

• Johansson, Barbro B. “Music, Age, Performance, and Excellence: A Neuroscientific Approach.” Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition 18, no. 1-2 (2002): 46.

• Johansson, Barbro B. “Music and Brain Plasticity.” European Review 14, no. 1 (2006), 49-64. 

• Kells, Deanne. “The Impact of Music on Mathematics Achievement.” Accessed January 6, 2022. http://www.microtonemusic.net/About_Microtone_Music/Expert_Research/Benefits_of_Kindermusik/ImpactOfMusicOnMath.pdf

• Küpana, M. Nevra. "Social Emotional Learning and Music Education." SED-Sanat Eğitimi Dergisi 3, no. 1 (2015): 75-88.

• Leipold, Simon, Carina Klein, and Lutz Jancke. “Musical Expertise Shapes Functional and Structural Brains Network Independent of Absolute Pitch Ability.” Journal of Neuroscience 41, no. 11 (2021): 2496-2511.

• Levitin, Daniel. This is your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Plume/Penguin, 2007.

• Mannone, Maria, and Luca Turchet. "Shall We (Math and) Dance?" In Mathematics and Computation in Music: 7th International Conference, MCM 2019, Madrid, Spain, June 18-21, 2019, Proceedings 7 (pp. 84-97). Springer International Publishing.

• Marcus, Gary. Guitar Zero: The New Musicians and the Science of Learning. London: Penguin Press, 2012.

• Marzano, Robert J. and Daisy E. Arredondo. “Restructuring Schools Through the Teaching of Thinking Skills.” Educational Leadership, 43, no. 8 (1986): 20-26.

• McPherson, Gary E., Peter Miksza, and Paul Evans. “Self-Regulated Learning in Music Practice and Performance.” In Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance, pp. 181-193. Routledge, 2017.

• Miendlarzewska, Ewa, and Wiebke J. Frost. “How Musical Training Affects Cognitive Development: Rhythm, Reward, and Other Modulating Variables.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 7 (2014): 279.

• Moreno, Sylvain, Ellen Bialystok, Raluca Barac, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Nicholas, J. Cepeda, and Tom Chau. “Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function.“ Psychological Science 22, no. 11 (2011): 1425-1433.

• Nazzi, Thierry, Caroline Floccia, and Josiane Bertoncini. “Discrimination of Pitch Contours by Neonates.” Infant Behavior and Development 21, no. 4 (1998): 779-784.

• Nyberg, Lars, Reza Habib, Anthony R. McIntosh, and Endel Tulving. “Reactivation of Encoding-Related Brain Activity during Memory Retrieval.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97, no. 20 (2000): 11120-11124.

• Patel, Aniruddh D. Music, Language, and the Brain. 1st ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.

• Peretz, Isabelle, and Robert Zatorre. “Brain Organization for Music Processing.” Annual Review of Psychology 56, no. 1 (2005): 89-114. 

• Peretz, Isabelle, and Robert J. Zatorre, eds. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. Oxford University Press, 2003.

• Phillips-Silver, Jessica. "On the Meaning of Movement in Music, Development and the Brain." Contemporary Music Review 28, no. 3 (2009): 293-314.

• Robinson, Jerry W. and T. James Crawford. “Fundamental Considerations in Sequencing and Teaching Basic Typing Applications.” Balance Sheet 60, no. 1 (1978): 4-7.

• Rodriguez, Carlos X. “Children’s Perception, Production, and Description of Musical Expression.” Journal of Research in Music Education 46, no. 1 (1998): 48-61.

• Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.

• Schlaug, Gottfried, Andrea Norton, Katie Overy, and Ellen Winner. “Effects of Music Training on the Child's Brain and Cognitive Development.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1060, no. 1 (2006): 219-230. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1360.015

• Schlaug, Gottfried, Lutz Jäncke, Yanxiong Huang, Jochen F. Staiger, and Helmuth Steinmetz. “Increased Corpus Callosum Size in Musicians.” Neuropsychologia 33, no. 8 (1995): 1047-1055.

• Scott-Kassner, Carol. "Developing Teachers for Early Childhood Programs: Research about the Impact of Music on Brain Development Highlights the Need to Prepare Teachers to Provide Effective Music Instruction in Day-Care Preschool Settings." Music Educators Journal 86, no. 1 (1999): 19-25.

• Scripp, Larry. “An Overview of Research on Music and Learning.” Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development (2002): 132-136.

• Speranza, Luisa, Salvatore Pulcrano, Carla Perrone-Capano, Umberto di Porzio, and Floriana Volpicelli. “Music Affects Functional Brain Connectivity and Is Effective in the Treatment of Neurological Disorders.“ Reviews in the Neurosciences 33, no. 7 (2022): 789-801.

• Strait, Dana L., Jane Hornickel, and Nina Kraus. “Subcortical Processing of Speech Regularities Predicts Reading and Music Aptitude in Children.” Behavioral and Brain Functions 7 (2011): 1-11.

• Sherman, Larry S., and Dennis Plies. Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

• Sulzer, David. Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

• Svard, Lois. The Musical Brain: What Students, Teachers, and Performers Need to Know. Oxford University Press, 2023.

• Teachout, David J. “The Impact of Music Education on a Child’s Growth and Development.” Sounds of Learning. Carlsbad, CA: International Foundation for Music Research (2005).

• Thaut, Michael H. Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications. Taylor & Francis, 2013.

• Thaut, Michael H., and Donald A. Hodges, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Topham, Tim. No Book Beginners. Melbourne, Australia: Top Music Pty Ltd, 2023.

• Trainor, Laurel J., Céline Marie, David Gerry, Elaine Whiskin, and Andrea Unrau. “Becoming Musically Enculturated: Effects of Music Classes for Infants on Brain and Behavior.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1252, no. 1 (2012): 129-138.

• Van Der Schyff, Dylan, Andrea Schiavio, and David J. Elliott. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Inactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality. MIT Press, 2022.

• Virtala, Paula, Minna Huotilainen, Eino Partanen, Vineta Vellman, and Mari Tervaniemi. “Newborn Infants’ Auditory System Is Sensitive to Western Music Chord Categories.” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (2013): 492.

• Wheeler, Mark E., Steven E. Petersen, and Randy L. Buckner. “Memory’s Echo: Vivid Remembering Reactivates Sensory-Specific Cortex.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  97, no. 20 (2000): 11125-11129.

• White-Schwoch, Travis, Kali Woodruff Carr, Samira Anderson, Dana L. Strait, and Nina Kraus. “Older Adults Benefit from Music Training Early in Life: Biological Evidence for Long-Term Training-Driven Plasticity.” Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 45 (2013): 17667-17674

• Williamson, Victoria. You Are The Music: How Music Reveals What It Means To Be Human. London: Icon Books Ltd, 2014.

• Winkler, István, Gábor P. Háden, Olivia Ladinig, István Sziller, and Henkjan Joning. “Newborn Infants Detect the Beat in Music.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106, no. 7 (2009): 2468-2471.

• Zatorre, Robert. From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It. Oxford University Press, 2023.

• Zimmerman, Emily, and Amir Lahav. “The Multisensory Brain and Its Ability to Learn Music.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1252, no. 1 (2012), 179-184.

• Zimmerman, Marilyn P. “Musical Characteristics of Children.” Washington, DC: Music Educators National Conference, 1971.

• Zuk, Jennifer, Christopher Benjamin, Arnold Kenyon, and Nadine Gaab. “Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians.” PLoS One 9, no.6 (2014): e99868.