The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education is a quarterly academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 covering music education

Music education

Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...

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History

The journal was established in 1963 by Charles Leonhard

Charles Leonhard

Charles Leonhard was an American music educator and academic. He was one of the first to argue for a focus upon aesthetic education within music education. For most of his career, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.-Life and career:Born in Anadarko, Oklahoma,...

 and Richard J. Colwell at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

 as Council of Research in Music Education and obtained its current name in the following year.

The initial volume was published as part of "plans for an organization to encourage research in music education [which had] been in process for more than a year." Its contents reflected two perceived needs for research in music education: (a) the need "for a means through which interest may be stimulated, guidance may be given, and some actual assistance offered to would-be researchers," and (b) the need "of disseminating information concerning research which has already taken place, whose findings the teacher may utilize in teaching, this being, after all, the basic purpose of such research."

Currently, the journal is published by the University of Illinois Press

University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press , is a major American university press and part of the University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic projects...

 on behalf of the Council for Research in Music Education.

Scope

The journal focuses mainly on quantitative and qualitative studies in music education, but also publishes invited essays, book reviews, dissertation reviews, and conference proceedings. Notable contributors include Harry Broudy

Harry Broudy

Harry S. Broudy is a Polish-born educator.Broudy attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University where he received his Bachelors Degree in German literature and philosophy in 1929. From there he went to Harvard University and earned his Masters degree in 1933 and his Ph.D in 1936...

, Elliot W. Eisner

Elliot W. Eisner

Elliot Eisner is emeritus professor of Art and Education at the Stanford University School of Education. He is active in several fields including arts education, curriculum reform, qualitative research, and is the recipient of a Grawemeyer Award in 2005 for his work in education as well as the...

, David J. Elliott

David J. Elliott

David Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University.Elliott was educated at the University of Toronto and Case Western University...

, Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...

, Edwin E. Gordon, Janet Mills, and Bennett Reimer

Bennett Reimer

From 1978 until retirement in 1997, Bennett Reimer held the John W. Beattie Endowed Chair in Music at Northwestern University, where he was Chair of the Music Education Department, Director of the Ph.D. program in Music Education, and founder and Director of the , a research group of Ph.D....

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Editors

Richard J. Colwell was the founding editor-in-chief of Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and he edited the journal (solely or together with colleagues) from 1963 until 1990 (vols. 1-44 & 48-103). Other editors have included Marilyn P. Zimmerman (vols. 104-124), Eunice Boardman (vols. 118-139), John W. Grashel (vols. 119-146), and Deborah A. Sheldon (vols. 144-150). Gregory F. DeNardo is the current editor. He has served in this capacity since 2001 (vols. 151-present).

Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education

The journal sponsors the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education (ODA). Dissertations written by recent graduates of doctoral programs in music education are nominated by university faculty and reviewed by members of the journal's advisory committee and other reviewers selected by the editor. Based on their recommendations, the editor and a select panel of judges choose the winner. The winner is then announced in the print version.

In the past, the ODA winner has been honored at a special session sponsored by the Council for Research in Music Education at The National Association for Music Education National Conference. More recently, the ODA winner has been invited to present his or her work at the University of Illinois.

ODA Winners

Year	Name	Institution	Title
1982	Richard Sang	University of Michigan	Modified Path Analysis of a Skills-Based Instructional Effectiveness Model for Beginning Teachers in Instrumental Music Education
1983	Kenneth Phillips	Kent State University	The Effects of Group Breath Control Training on Selected Vocal Measures Related to the Signing Ability of Elementary Students in Grades Two, Three, and Four
1984	David Schwaegler	University of Iowa	A Computer-Based Trainer for Music Conducting: The Effects of Four Feedback Models
1985	Douglas Bartholomew	Case Western Reserve University	A Phenomenology of Music Themes Concerning the Musical Object and Implications for Teaching and Learning
1985	Mary Goetze	University of Colorado	Factors Affecting the Accuracy in Children's Singing
1989	Jane Grant McKinney	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Developmental Pursuits of Excellence in North Carolina Music Education Shared by Alice Bivins, Grace Van Dyke More, and Birdie Holloway During Their Careers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, (1917–1965)
1990	Jeffrey C. Aaron	University of Iowa	The Effects of Vocal Coordination Instruction on the Pitch Accuracy, Range, Pitch Discrimination, and Tonal Memory of Inaccurate Singers
1990	Janet Barrett	University of Wisconsin	Melodic Schemata, Forms of Representation, and Cognitive Strategies used by Fourth-Graders in the Recall and Reproduction of Familiar Songs
1990	Marie McCarthy	University of Michigan	Music Education and the Quest for Cultural Identity in Ireland, 1831–1989
1990	W. Ann Stokes	Northwestern University	Intelligence and Feeling: A Philosophical Examination of These Concepts as Interdependent Factors in Music Experience and Music Education
1991	Mary Reichling	Indiana University	Images of Imagination: A Philosophical Study of Imagination in Music With Application to Music Education
1992	William Carson	Arizona State University	A History of the Northshore Concert Band, Wilmette, Illinois, 1956-1986: The First Thirty Years
1993	Therese Volk	Kent State University	A History of Multicultural Music Education in the Public Schools of United States, 1900–1990
1994	Robert E. Dunn	Northwestern University	Perceptual Modalities in Music Listening Among Third-Grade Students
1995	Maud M. Hickey	Northwestern University	Qualitative and Quantitative Relationships Between Children's Creative Musical Thinking Processes and Products
1996	Eleni Lapidaki	Northwestern University	Consistency of Tempo Judgments as a Measure of Time Experience in Music Listening
1998	Thorolf Kruger	University of Wisconsin	Teacher Practice, Pedagogical Discourses and the Construction of Knowledge: Two Case Studies of Teachers at Work
2002	Randall Everett Allsup	Columbia University	Crossing Over: Mutual Learning and Democratic Action in Instrumental Music Education
2002	Sheila J. Feay-Shaw	University of Washington	The Transmission of Ghanaian Music by Culture-Bearers: From Master Musician to Music Teacher
2005	Ruth I. Gustafson	University of Wisconsin	Merry Throngs and Street Gangs: The Fabrication of Whiteness and the Worthy Citizen in Early Vocal Instruction and Music Appreciation, 1830–1930
2006	Daniel S. Isbell	University of Colorado	Socialization and Occupational Identity Among Preservice Music Teachers Enrolled in Traditional Baccalaureate Degree Programs
2007	Ryan M. Hourigan	University of Michigan	Teaching Music to Students With Special Needs: A Phenomenological Examination of Participants in a Fieldwork Experience
2008	Joshua A. Russell	University of Colorado	Career Decisions of String Music Educators: Factors Associated with Retention, Migration, and Attrition
2009	Wesley D. Brewer	Arizona State University	Conceptions of Effective Teaching and Role-Identity Development Among Preservice Music Educators
2010	Sharon L. Morrow	University of Wisconsin	Voices Not Heard: Voice-Use Profiles of Elementary Music Teachers, the Effects of Voice Amplification on Vocal Load, and Perceptions of Issues Surrounding Voice Use