Annotated Bibliography

Chamberlain, Steve. "Do Something: HOW TO: Anyone can Play Guitar: It's Never
Too Late to Learn, so Put Down the Air Guitar and Pick Up the Real Thing."
The Guardian: 38. Mar 22 2014. ProQuest. Web. 29 June 2016.

Steven Chamberlain is the author of 10 articles since July 9 2009. The Shortest and
the longest articles he wrote were 6 column inches (169 words) and longest article:
82 column inches (2447 words).
This article is about learning how to play guitar. There are three steps to follow. They
are find a good guitar, find a great teacher, practice, and push yourself. Finding a
good guitar is not that important because the important thing is that one that feels
comfortable to hold, and make sure it is the right size for your hands. If you're wary
of spending money, borrow one from a friend before taking the plunge. The second
step is to find a great teacher. A teacher who will become your friend and give you
the best lesson. And the author also directed the link where to register to find a
teacher. The third step is of course to practice. Practice at least 10 mins a day. He
also explain how he practiced. You practice longer doesnt mean you will be better
at playing guitar, as long as you are concentrate on your practice. The last step is
push yourself. Set up a goal. Why do you want to play guitar? Why are you learning
how to play guitar. As conclusion of the article he wrote some illustration tips on
Chords.
This article relates to my topic because I have been trying to learn how to play
guitar. This explained every steps that I need to take in order to play guitar well.

Kratus, John. "Music Education at the Tipping Point." Music Educators Journal 94.2
(2007): 42-8. ProQuest. Web. 30 June 2016.

John Kratus is Professor of Music Education and Chair of the Music Education area at
the Michigan State University School of Music. Professor Kratus teaches secondary
general music methods, music education foundations, creativity, and philosophy of
music education. He is published in the fields of creativity and curriculum
development in the "Music Educators Journal," the "Bulletin of the Council for
Research in Music Education," "Psychology of Music," "Canadian Music Educator,"
and the "Journal of Research in Music Education."

Professor Kratus was previously director of Music Education at Case Western

Reserve University for 10 years, and has also taught at Bowling Green State
University and Northwestern University.

This scholarly article is about how music needs to keep up with our changing society
and music styles as well as preserve the original reason for music education. The
writer of this article thinks that the reason enrollment in music classes is so low is
because of the society changing faster than music can keep up. He uses statistics in
California and other states to prove the loss of students enrolled and considers it
the tipping point. More focus is put on all other arts programs and music is being
left behind. The author believes that the tipping occurred because of the changes
in both the way music is experienced and educational practices.To change the way
music education is disappearing, he suggests that the schools use a sticky" music
education program. This means that they make the program interesting and
irresistible to students.

I am going to use this article to show that some music education programs are
getting cut or losing a ton of funding because of the enrollment into these
programs. This article mentions what is affecting the tipping point that music
education programs are at and that could be very helpful in showing why they are
actually losing these programs.

Lewis Brown, Laura. "The Benefits of Music Education." PBS Parents. Web. 8 Apr.
2015.

Laura Lewis Brown is a Baltimore-based writer and editor, and an adjunct professor
of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the University of
Baltimore.

This article is all about the effects music education has on children. It shows us that
music is an important part of our life. The author writes about specific ways that
music education effects our children. This article says that research has found that
music is more than just music. Learning music helps children learn other subjects as
well. Music is said to help with language development. Music education increases

ones IQ and makes our brains work harder. Music helps develop skills needed for
math and it also helps improve test scores. This whole article is about the benefits
of music education and how we should want our children to learn more about
music.
I think this article will help me because it will make people more aware of the actual
real life effects music education has on children. I think the awareness to keep
music education in schools will be increased if more people knew all the positive
effects it has. This will contribute to my essay because it helps me back up the
advocating for music education in schools.

Sheppard, Philip. Music Makes Your Child Smarter: How Music Helps Every Child's
Development. Schirmer Trade Books, 2008. Print.

Philip Sheppard is Professor of 'Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London; he is

also a Senior Lecturer in 'Principles Of Education' and designed the Academy's
'Music In The Community' course. He is a guest lecturer at the Royal College Of
Music and patron of the Oxford 'Cello School. Philip directs education projects at the
Harlem Center in New York and has appeared as a guest presenter on BBC4's Proms
coverage. He has played at Glastonbury and recorded with artists including Scott
Walker and David Bowie.
The Author reveals the secret power of music in your child's development. Discover
how music can help your child's mental development, physical co-ordination,
language skills, maths ability, social skills, memory, teamwork skills, and selfexpression & creativity. It features: lullabies and songs, easy musical games, how to
make your own instruments at home, fun activities, music & movement exercises,
suggested listening, advice on choosing instruments. The first half of the book,
wherein Sheppard lays out his arguments, combines research findings with his own
personal anecdotes as teacher, musician, and parent. The second half of Music
Makes Your Child Smarter explores activities from pre-birth to early elementary (up
to age nine), with a brief introduction to the options available for formal music
lessons as children grow. Broken into age groups, Sheppard starts with simple
lullabies sung by parents to unborn children, moves into musical games, finger
plays, and motion songs, then into homemade instruments, spontaneous
composition games, body percussion, and children increase in age.

This book relates to my topic because the research and important aspects of why
music can, and does, play such a significant role in a child's development and what
will allow children the opportunity to include music in their daily lives.

Vitale, John L. "Music Makes You Smarter: A New Paradigm for Music Education?
Perceptions and Perspectives from Four Groups of Elementary Education
Stakeholders." Canadian Journal of Education 34.3 (2011): 31743. ProQuest.Web. 30 June 2016.

As a professional bassist, he has over 1,100 performance credits, including

numerous festivals, public concerts, and television appearances with Juno award
winner/platinum-selling artist Robert Michaels and two-time Juno award winner
Liberty Silver. In addition, he has many recording and compositional credits,
including the score to multi award-winning children's animated film Attic-in-the-Blue.
He is currently working on a number of new studies that include creativity in the
music classroom, attitudes of generalist teachers toward music education, and
online blogging as a pedagogical tool. And he also wrote total of 4 books so far.
Specifically, this author seeks to explore the following problem, to what extent
does music education enhance performance in math and science? , What effect
does music education have on cognitive skills? How does the "music makes you
smarter" notion influence the financial support and marketing of music education?
And what is the knowledge base of participants in music? In sum, the primary
reason why we teach music should simply be the music itself - the acts of listening,
performing, creating, sharing, and appreciating music. Its fundamental worth is not
defined by nonmusical results. The author also brought up loads of quote to make it
more sense for the audiences.

The benefits of teaching music have now become the principal reason why we
teach music here in America which we really need it in Myanmar, my country,
because I had this whole experience, I wanted to learn music at school but there
was no such as music class at school. This paper ends with a discussion on the
ramifications of this new paradigm shift and ultimately argues that the music itself
should be the focus of music education. So this research will be very important to
my topic.

"20 Important Benefits of Music In Our Schools." Bachelors Degree 20 Important

Benefits of Music In Our Schools Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 June 2016.
I sheared this article from internet source so I couldnt find the authors name. This is
from a website called bachelorsdegree.org.
The article is just to show and learn why music education is so important, and how it
offers benefits even beyond itself. Nearly everyone enjoys music, whether by
listening to it, singing, or playing an instrument. But despite this almost universal
interest, many schools are having to do away with their music education programs.
This is a mistake, with schools losing not only an enjoyable subject, but a subject
that can enrich students' lives and education. it also listed twenty difference
benefits why music is important in schools for students.
This article relates to my topic because the twenty listed benefits are undeniable
facts that are in fact Im going to need for my essay.