PIANO PEDAGOGY

I. Where to find Piano Pedagogy materials in the Stetson libraries

note: the music collection is divided between the two libraries: note exact locations of materials

Webcat: online catalog of holdings of duPont-Ball Library and Jenkins Music Library

Webcat User's Guide:

http://www2.stetson.edu/library/using_webcat.pdf

Helpful hints:

Words entered with a blank space between them will be searched in any order but in the same field. To search for an exact phrase, use the letters "adj"(for the word adjacent), without the quotation marks, between the words.

Example--Words or Phrase: piano adj pedagogy

Truncation symbol: type as much as you know of a name or word, and then use the dollar sign ($) to find all possible endings to the stem.

Example--Words or Phrase: pedagog$

As you browse through the results, you should note the subject headings assigned to those items. In the complete record, you may click on anything underlined to link to other materials in that category.

Note: piano pedagogy is not used as a subject term in our catalog (the Library of Congress Subject Headings are used in most online catalogs)

Terminology:

pedagogy topics

identify terminology: pedagogy, teaching, instruction, methods, instruction and study, interpretation and phrasing

keyword searching in Webcat -- use top line, then use one relevant book to identify subject headings

Helpful call numbers (note Call No. Browse feature of Webcat; remember to select Library, must browse each library separately)

Piano (general works): ML650
History of the piano: ML651-661
Study (general works): MT220
Physiology of the hand: MT221
Methods: MT222
Beginning instruction: MT224
Studies and exercises:

  • General: MT225
  • Left hand: MT226
  • Pedaling: MT227
  • Touch: MT228
  • Wrist: MT229
  • Intervals: MT230
  • Scales, arpeggios, etc.: MT231
  • Fingering: MT232
  • Rhythm: MT233
  • Phrasing: MT235
  • Other: MT236-252

II. How to do research for periodical articles and materials held by other libraries:

A. Periodicals at Stetson

Webcat -- keyword search of 'periodical' line

Note list of periodicals alphabetically by title

http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?Id=K09798&sid=257989313&TabID=2

B. Periodicals online and in other libraries

Go to Library's main page and click on Databases...

http://www2.stetson.edu/library/databases.php

Note library guide – ERIC http://www2.stetson.edu/library/using_eric.pdf

Examples of appropriate databases:

1. Music Index

see Library's search guide

http://www2.stetson.edu/library/ra25.html

2. Arts & Humanities

note: uses term 'identifiers' not Subject Headings (as in our catalog)

after you get your list of articles, look at headings just above them to link to other databases; same search automatically performed

3. Ebsco Host Academic

note: full-text available

note: uses subject headings more like our catalog

4. Education

5. ERIC (Education -- EbscoHost) or ERIC (Education First Search)

6. Medline (Medical) Index

use for topics dealing with studies of the hand and fingers, injury

note: in searching, use 'music' in the subject field, then add other search terms as keywords

7. ProQuest COMPLETE

note: searching 'piano pedagogy' as 'subject' will get zero results, so search this as 'citation and article text'

which is the default setting

III. Internet sites:

search engines: metacrawler.com (searches several other engines at once)

altavista.com -- use phrase in quotation marks

google.com

Web sites of interest:

MusikGarten http://www.musikgarten.org/

KinderMusik http://www.kindermusik.com/

Yamaha Music Education System http://www.yamaha-mf.or.jp/english/activity/act/act1.html

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