RJA#7a: Evaluation of Sources

REFERENCE ARTICLE
Name(s) of author(s) of the article: Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
Title of the article: Musical Notation
Title of reference work: infoplease
Name of publisher: Columbia University Press
Date of publication: 2007
Resource searched: infoplease encyclopedia

The reference shows at the bottom the sources it used to compile the information which shows that it can be resonably trusted, not just someone writting what they think they know. It is a encyclopedia entry that mostly contains the history with some detailed description of how musical notation came about. Within the information there are links to certain words but non of which would really help me with my research. I would probably use this information to lead into or even enforce the description of notated music and why it is or is not helpful in teaching musical instruments.

BOOK
Author: Mixon, Kevin
Title: Reaching and Teaching All Instrumental Music Students
Edition number or information: Illustrated
Name of publisher: Lanham, Md./Rowman & Littlefield Education
Date of publication: c2007
Resource searched: Auraria Library/Google Books

The book seems to be of a very credible source for it contains information gatherd from many different sources and seems well organized and researched. This book can be of many uses to my reasearch. It is mostly a book for teachers about the different aspects of teaching and how to be most successful, in mixons researched opinion, in teaching music students. It has a section on teaching for diverse learning styles which would be excelent to use for the oral side of my research. The book also has a section on introducing notation which would be great for research on the notated side. It also has many different elements that come to play on teaching music which will broaden my music teaching knowledge and allow me to bring a better understanding of how to teach music in gerneral.

PERIODICAL ARTICLE
Name(s) of author(s): Music Educators National Conference
(U.S.)Title of article: Neglected Skills: Aural Perception and Music Reading
Volume and issue number: 57, no. 2
Date: 2007
Pages on which article appears: 35
Resource searched: Auraria Library

This article comes straight from the Music Educators National Conference so I know it is credited right off the bat. It has great information on ways to facilitate learning in an aural and a notated manner but it is also a very western baised article. It is giving me the idea to condense my topic to western music because I am realizing that trying to duscuss other musics would make my topic too large for this class assignment. It gives great information on the trainings that music student can go through and how they can best benefit from them (wether it be aural or notated). Discussing non-western musics in my research briefly is still needed and this article would not be very useful in that area.

WEBSITE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8646472/Music-Factsheet-No-1-Three-Ways-to-learn-music
Title: Music Musings No. 1: What is Music?
Author: Suzannah Doyle
Copright: 2004 Suzannah Doyle Music

The site is actually a site that links the users to documents. The document I am linked to comes from Suzannah Doyle's personal site. I went to her site and discoverd that she has a very extensive backround in music and is very actively involved in many different aspects of music and is well accredited. The document that I am useing is a very simpile explanation of three basic ways to to learn music (Written, Oral, and Chord Theory). The Document is mainly baised on western music and how to learn it so in applying it to learning by oral tradition, this site would not be useful but it is useful for a very brief description of those methods. I could use it for leading into more detailed information when talking about specific methods of teaching music.