Resources

For Students

Apps

BandBlast

Fingercharts

Web sites

New York Philharmonic Kidzone http://www.nyphilkids.org/index.html

Bulletproof Musician https://bulletproofmusician.com/

For Parents

Books

Coyle, Daniel. The Talent Code. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2009.

Suzuki, Shinichi. Translated by Waltraud Suzuki, Nurtured by Love. Miami, FL: Summy-Birchard, Inc. or Warner Bros. or Alfred Publishing.

Suzuki, Shinichi. Translated by Mary Louise Nagata, Ability Development from Age Zero. Miami, FL: Summy-Birchard, Inc. or Warner Bros. orAlfred Publishing.

Articles

Mazzocchi, Tony. (2015) “3 Things Parents Must Tell Their Children When They Begin a Musical Instrument.” National Association for Music Education, http://www.nafme.org/3-things-parents-must-tell-their-children-when-they-begin-a-musical-instrument/

Corrigall, Kathleen A. and Laurel J. Trainor. (2011) “Associations Between Length of Music Training and Reading Skills in Children.” Music Perception, 29, no. 2: 147-155.

Trainor, Laurel J., Antoine J. Shahin and Larry E. Roberts. (2009) “Understanding the Benefits of Musical Training: Effects on Oscillatory Brain Activity.” Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 1169: 133-142.

Inouye, Itsuo. (2006) “Musical Training Benefits Kids’ Brains.” Associated Press.

Anvari, Sima H., Laurel J. Trainor, Jennifer Woodside, Betty Ann Levy. (2002) “Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83: 111-130.

McTamaney, Catherine. (2005) “Why Music?” Montessori Life, 17,no. 3: 16-21.

Ohlhaver, Dorothy. (1998) “Learning with Music in the Classroom: What Research Says.” Montessori Life, 10, no. 4: 32-3.

Faulmann, Jo. (1980) “Montessori and Music in Early Childhood.” Music Educators Journal, 66, no. 9: 41-43.

Blogs

Trust Me I’m a Scientist. Blake Madden. February 3, 2014. “Why Music Education Really Matters” http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2014/02/03/why-better-music-education-really-matters/

Slipped Disc. Lebrecht, Norman. January 26, 2014. “Cornell President: young scientists must be taught music and the arts” http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2014/01/cornell-president-young-scientists-must-be-taught-the-arts.html

Slipped Disc. Lebrecht, Norman. January 23, 2014. “Exclusive: Nobel winner says ‘In the US, classical music is fundamentally a dying art’ ” http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2014/01/exclusive-nobel-winner-says-in-the-us-classical-music-is-fundamentally-a-dying-art.html

Slipped Disc. Lebrecht, Norman. October 9, 2013. “Nobel medicine winner says: I owe it all to my bassoon teacher” http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/10/nobel-medicine-winner-says-i-owe-is-all-to-my-bassoon-teacher.html

Dissertation

Watson, Robert Anthony. (2011) “The Flute Pedagogy of Toshio Takahashi” DMA Document, University of Georgia https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/watson_robert_a_201105_dma.pdf