Bücher and colleagues
Chronology of Auditory Processing and Related Co-activation in the Orbitofrontal Cortex Depends on Musical Expertise
A comparison of 162 participants links musical expertise with differences in auditory processing time.
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September 15 research expansion
The September 15 research expansion added 103 new source notes after duplicate checking against the existing collection. The source library now contains 219 records.
Pauline Sophie Heck; Wiebke Reinhardt; Andrea Bischoff; Stefan Koelsch
The Role of Active Music Making in Fostering Resilience
An online survey connects active musical engagement with one measure of resilience in its healthy sample.
Benjamin P. Gold; Marcus T. Pearce; Anthony R. McIntosh; Catie Chang; Alain Dagher; Robert J. Zatorre
Auditory and Reward Structures Reflect the Pleasure of Musical Expectancies During Naturalistic Listening
A listening experiment examines how musical surprise and uncertainty relate to pleasure and brain activity.
Alessandro Dell’Anna; Marc Leman; Annamaria Berti
Musical Interaction Reveals Music as Embodied Language
A theoretical framework considers musical interaction through movement, prediction and shared action.
Dylan van der Schyff; Andrea Schiavio
Evolutionary Musicology Meets Embodied Cognition: Biocultural Coevolution and the Enactive Origins of Human Musicality
A review connects biological, cultural and embodied explanations of human musicality.
Piotr Podlipniak
The Role of Canalization and Plasticity in the Evolution of Musical Creativity
An evolutionary hypothesis examines how stable developmental patterns and flexibility could support musical creativity.
Piotr Podlipniak
The Role of the Baldwin Effect in the Evolution of Human Musicality
A hypothesis asks how learned musical practices might interact with biological evolution.
Ruijiao Dai; Petri Toiviainen; Fulvia Francesca Campo; Elvira Brattico
Differences in Dynamic Functional Connectivity Between Musicians and Non-Musicians During Naturalistic Music Listening
A brain-imaging comparison finds different patterns during listening in musicians and non-musicians.
Debbie Rohwer
Research on Community Bands: Past, Present, and Future
A review maps community-band research and questions still needing investigation.
Barry Hartz; William Bauer
The Effect of Ear Playing Instruction on Adult Amateur Wind Instrumentalists’ Musical Self-Efficacy: An Exploratory Study
Ten adult wind players reported greater musical self-efficacy after an eight-week ear-playing programme.
Otto Merz
Review of The Ditson School and Community Band Series
A 1928 review describes teaching materials intended for newly organized bands.
Audrey-Kristel Barbeau; Roger Mantie
Music Performance Anxiety and Perceived Benefits of Musical Participation Among Older Adults in Community Bands
Older band members describe both performance anxiety and valued reasons for continuing to play.
Megan Feeney
Southeast Community Band Hits All the Right Notes
A Nebraska magazine profile describes a band welcoming players across generations and several counties.
Natalie Alexa Roese; Julia Merrill
Amateur Ensemble Music Making: Between Self and Community, and Experience and Result
Amateur musicians describe tensions between personal goals, collective experience and the work of sustaining an ensemble.
Daisy Fancourt
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health
A broad arts-and-health book provides routes into underlying research that must be assessed in its own setting.
Michael J. Bradley, Phoebe Robertson and Taylor Iery
Lifelong Participation in Community Bands: Bridging Formal Music Education and Community-Based Engagement
A supplementary narrative synthesis connects formal music education with continued community band involvement.
Kent C. Grover
Lived Experiences of Navy Musicians Adjusting to Life in the Armed Forces
Navy musicians describe identity, adjustment and mentorship during the transition into military life.
Julie Quinlan; Valerie Leahy; Claire O’Dea; Caroline McGarry
Music Is the Space Between the Notes (Claude Debussy)—The Power of Connection: Exploring Motivations, Barriers and Relational Pedagogy in Adult Music Learning
Adult learners describe the value of supportive teaching and the difficulty of making space for practice.
Annie O. Mok
Sites of Becoming: How Non-Formal Music Learning Helps Forge Musical Selves in Culturally Diverse Contexts
Non-formal music learning is examined as part of cultural identity and the development of musical selves.
Justin K. Stanton
The Impact of Military and School Band History and How It Affects National Guard Service Member Musician School Band Directors
National Guard musicians who also teach describe connections between their military and school band roles.
Nicole Espinosa; Marshall A. Dalton; Hannes Almgren; Andrew C. McKinnon; Helen F. Mitchell; Zoe Menczel Schrire; Sharon L. Naismith
The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia: a whole-brain VBM analysis
An exploratory memory-clinic imaging study finds some brain differences but no significant cognitive difference between musician groups.
W. Scott Barger
We Want a Band: A History of Community Bands in Oklahoma
A history of Oklahoma community bands supplies local stories and leads for further archival work.
Jodie Bloska; Lauren Godier-McBard; Helen Odell-Miller; Alexander Creamer; Hannah Merchant; Matt Fossey
Expanding access to adult community choirs: a scoping review to identify facilitators and barriers to choir membership
Choir access research highlights an important gap between understanding current members and understanding people who never join.
Ellen Waterman; Erin Parkes; Geneviève Cimon; Jesse Stewart
Expanding the music circle through networked improvisation in an inclusive ensemble
An inclusive online ensemble offers practical examples of adapted participation and the limits of technology.
Emma White; Stephanie E. Pitts
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school
Young adults’ experiences after school point to the importance of musical fit, social entry and access to instruments.
Lei Zhang; Bernhard Ross; Yi Du; Claude Alain
Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception
Brain imaging compares speech-in-noise processing among older lifelong musicians, older nonmusicians and younger adults.
José Cidade; Alexandra Sá Costa; João Caramelo
Motivation for Participation in Civil Wind Bands: Contributions for Non-Formal Educational Contexts
A Portuguese civil wind band survey finds that fellowship, musicianship and the conductor all matter to current members.
Andrea Creech; Colin Enright (editors)
Pedagogies for Later-Life Music Learning and Participation: Facilitating Creative Musical Development in Later-Life
Later-life music learning calls for responsive teaching, meaningful choices and attention to who can take part.
Florian Worschech; Damien Marie; Christopher Sinke; Matthias Kliegel; Kristin Jünemann; Daniel S. Scholz; Tillmann H. Krüger; Clara E. James; Eckart Altenmüller
Quality of life in older adults is enhanced by piano practice: Results from a randomized controlled trial
A piano trial reports small relative changes in selected quality-of-life domains, with limits to its later follow-up.
Sara D’Amario; Laura Bishop
Self-reported experiences of togetherness in classical music ensembles
Advanced music students describe moments of togetherness alongside uneven or disappointing ensemble experiences.
Edward A. Roth
Shared flow and emotional synchrony through group instrumental improvisation: a feasibility study of music-based social connection
A small improvisation feasibility study explores reported flow and connection without establishing a treatment effect.
Helen English; Suzanne Lewis; Jane Davidson; Nicholas Goodwin
Transformative engagement with community music-making for older adults: A scoping review
A review of community music in later life maps reported positive change and the conditions surrounding participation.
Elizabeth H. MacGregor; Stephanie E. Pitts
‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: Investigating attitudes to diversity and inclusivity in lower- and upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom
Choir participants’ attitudes reveal a gap between a general welcome and who actually gains access.
National Endowment for the Arts; National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture
50 States of Arts Participation: 2022
State-level arts participation estimates provide a broad setting for questions about musical opportunity.
Robin Hake; Gunter Kreutz; Ulrike Frischen; Merle Schlender; Esther Rois-Merz; Markus Meis; Kirsten C. Wagener; Kai Siedenburg
A Survey on Hearing Health of Musicians in Professional and Amateur Orchestras
Professional and amateur orchestral musicians report hearing concerns and uneven use of protection.
National Endowment for the Arts
Arts Attendance, Art-Making, and Social Connectedness: Spring/Summer 2024
National survey data place arts participation and social connectedness in a wider United States context.
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet; Emma Heard
Can Community Music Contribute to More Equitable Societies? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Community music can support individual experiences of inclusion while wider inequalities persist.
José Cidade; João Caramelo; Alexandra Sá Costa
Civil wind bands beyond music education: a scoping review (2010-2021)
International civil wind band literature covers social, civic and educational questions beyond musical instruction.
Emilie Louise Anderson
Cultivating Harmony Across Generations: Exploring the Benefits of Intergenerational Music Making
Seven interviewees reflect on wellbeing, growth and relationships in an intergenerational symphonic band.
Audrey-Kristel Barbeau
Pilot Study on the Effects of Music-making on Cortisol, Alpha-amylase and Immunoglobulin-a Among Older Amateur Musicians
An eight-person rehearsal pilot does not establish a stress or immune benefit from band playing.
Gaia Vetere; Gareth Williams; Clive Ballard; Byron Creese; Adam Hampshire; Abbie Palmer; Ellie Pickering; Megan Richards; Helen Brooker; Anne Corbett
The relationship between playing musical instruments and cognitive trajectories: Analysis from a UK ageing cohort
A United Kingdom aging-cohort analysis links musical experience with selected cognitive scores, without measuring a slower rate of decline.
Florian Worschech; Clara E. James; Kristin Jünemann; Christopher Sinke; Tillmann H. C. Krüger; Daniel S. Scholz; Matthias Kliegel; Damien Marie; Eckart Altenmüller
Fine motor control improves in older adults after 1 year of piano lessons: Analysis of individual development and its coupling with cognition and brain structure
A year of piano instruction is examined through motor performance and its relationship to cognition and brain structure.
Jessica Piso
Flute Choir as a Pedagogical Workshop: Case Studies in Youth, Collegiate, Community, and Advanced Adult Settings
Flute ensemble directors describe repertoire, instrument access and ways of adapting musical parts.
Kristin Jünemann; Anna Engels; Damien Marie; Florian Worschech; Daniel S. Scholz; Frédéric Grouiller; Matthias Kliegel; Dimitri Van De Ville; Eckart Altenmüller; Tillmann H. C. Krüger; Clara E. James; Christopher Sinke
Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults
A piano trial examines changes in functional brain connectivity after one year.
Guiyue Ma; Xiaoqin Ma
Music Intervention for older adults: Evidence Map of Systematic Reviews
An evidence map organizes reviews of music interventions for older adults, with substantial clinical and dementia-related coverage.
Damien Marie; Cécile A.H. Müller; Eckart Altenmüller; Dimitri Van De Ville; Kristin Jünemann; Daniel S. Scholz; Tillmann H.C. Krüger; Florian Worschech; Matthias Kliegel; Christopher Sinke; Clara E. James
Music interventions in 132 healthy older adults enhance cerebellar grey matter and auditory working memory, despite general brain atrophy
Brain and working-memory outcomes are examined after two forms of music activity in older adults.
Megan K. E. Lummiss
My Musical Self: Examining Social Influences of Community Band Membership on Musical Identity Using Social Identity Theory
Eastern Ontario band members describe musical identity through social comparison and continuity during the pandemic.
Christopher Long
Composing for Amateurs—A Practical Exploration of Interactive Creativity and Socio-musical Relationships
A composer’s work with amateur ensembles explores trust, challenge and flexible creative roles.
Jessica A. Williams
Leading Through Music: A Comparative Case Study on the Effects of Military Band Performance
Two Army band settings provide accounts of leadership, morale and civic performance.
Karima Chacur; Rodrigo Serrat; Feliciano Villar
Older adults’ participation in artistic activities: a scoping review
A wide arts review finds much more attention to benefits than to barriers and participation across the life course.
Audrey-Kristel Barbeau; Mariane Generale; Andrea Creech
Online Group Music-Making in Community Concert Bands: Perspectives From Conductors and Older Amateur Musicians
Online band activity maintained some contact while exposing limits of technology and shared music making.
Jennifer A Bugos; Yan Wang
Piano Training Enhances Executive Functions and Psychosocial Outcomes in Aging: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
A piano trial finds selected executive-function and self-efficacy changes, without an overall stress or immune biomarker effect.
Ahmed Arafa; Masayuki Teramoto; Saori Maeda; Yukie Sakai; Saya Nosaka; Qi Gao; Haruna Kawachi; Rena Kashima; Chisa Matsumoto; Yoshihiro Kokubo
Playing a musical instrument and the risk of dementia among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
Three observational cohorts suggest an association between instrumental activity and lower dementia incidence, without proving prevention.
Jennifer Gumble
The Impact of Collegiate Marching Band on the Intra- and Interpersonal Competencies and Capacities of Alumni: A Qualitative Case Study
College marching band alumni reflect on skills and relationships they associate with their participation.
Ann M. Harrington
Aspects of Ensemble Participation and Feelings of Belonging Among New Horizons Members
New Horizons members describe belonging through rehearsal, performance and everyday communication.
Florian Worschech; Damien Marie; Kristin Jünemann; Christopher Sinke; Tillmann H. C. Krüger; Michael Großbach; Daniel S. Scholz; Laura Abdili; Matthias Kliegel; Clara E. James; Eckart Altenmüller
Improved Speech in Noise Perception in the Elderly After 6 Months of Musical Instruction
Speech-in-noise results from a music trial varied by listening condition and participant group.
Xia Guo; Masatoshi Yamashita; Maki Suzuki; Chie Ohsawa; Kohei Asano; Nobuhito Abe; Takahiro Soshi; Kaoru Sekiyama
Musical instrument training program improves verbal memory and neural efficiency in novice older adults
A keyboard-harmonica program reports selected verbal-memory improvements, with several design constraints.
Huan Zhu; Stephanie E. Pitts
When the music stops: the effects of lockdown on amateur music groups
Amateur musicians describe disrupted rehearsals, lost contact and varied responses to online music during lockdown.
Jennifer MacRitchie; Matthew Breaden; Andrew J. Milne; Sarah McIntyre
Cognitive, Motor and Social Factors of Music Instrument Training Programs for Older Adults’ Improved Wellbeing
A small older-adult piano program produces mixed performance findings alongside accounts of achievement and social experience.
Stephanie E Pitts
Leisure-Time Music Groups and Their Localities: Exploring the Commercial, Educational, and Reciprocal Relationships of Amateur Music-Making
Amateur music groups’ local relationships involve shared resources, educational connections and volunteer demands.
Lia Studer; Desiree M. Schumann; Aline Stalder-Siebeneichler; Michael Tamm; Daiana Stolz
Does trumpet playing affect lung function?—A case-control study
A comparison of high-brass players and other musicians does not establish better lung function from playing.
Andrew Goodrich
Spending their leisure time: adult amateur musicians in a community band
Continuing players in one auditioned band describe musical challenge and friendship within the demands of work, travel and everyday life.
Laura W. Wesseldijk; Fredrik Ullén; Miriam A. Mosing
The effects of playing music on mental health outcomes
A large twin study complicates simple claims that playing music either improves or harms mental health.
Victoria J. Williamson; Michael Bonshor
Wellbeing in Brass Bands: The Benefits and Challenges of Group Music Making
Brass band members report friendship, purpose and musical challenge alongside pressures and physical concerns.
Andrew John Schultz
Adulthood and Music Participation in a Community Band: A Collective Case Study of the Lived Experiences of Adult Community Band Members
Seven returning players describe the relationships and life circumstances that helped them resume band participation.
Duwayne Clark Dale
Community Bands of Kentucky: Participation, Engagement and the Fulfillment of Basic Psychological Needs
Kentucky community band members describe engagement and psychological needs within selected active ensembles.
Joshua Eric Long
Sustained Adult Community Band Participation: Influences and Emotions of Music Making
Long-standing participation in one community band is explored through invitation, family connections and musical emotion.
Stephen Sanford Murray
Basic psychological needs and the New Horizons musician: a cross-case analysis of six older adults participating in a New England New Horizons ensemble
Six older musicians show how confidence, choice and relationships interact in a New Horizons ensemble.
Sarah E. Wilson
Playing with Others: The Community, Motivations, and Social Structures of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Concert Band
One concert band’s members describe a sense of community alongside dissatisfaction with parts of the musical experience.
Debbie Rohwer
Task Difficulty, Practice Techniques, and Confidence in Adult Concert Bands
Adult band members describe difficulty, practice choices and confidence while preparing specific music.
Stephanie E. Pitts
“The Violin in the Attic”: Investigating the Long-Term Value of Lapsed Musical Participation
Musical experience can retain value after someone stops performing in an ensemble.
Susan Hallam; Andrea Creech
Can active music making promote health and well-being in older citizens? Findings of the music for life project
Music for Life participants reported higher wellbeing at baseline, but the study did not find significant improvement over time.
William Leonard Dyer
Development and Maintenance of Identity in Aging Community Music Participants
Retired musicians describe different ways of maintaining identity across community ensembles.
Stephanie E. Pitts; Katharine Robinson
Dropping In and Dropping Out: Experiences of Sustaining and Ceasing Amateur Participation in Classical Music
Continuing and stopping amateur music can involve changes in fit, confidence, support and life circumstances.
Daisy Fancourt; Rosie Perkins; Sara Ascenso; Livia A. Carvalho; Andrew Steptoe; Aaron Williamon
Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users
A group drumming study reports promising psychological changes, with important limits to its comparison design.
Stephanie E. Pitts; Katharine Robinson; Kunshan Goh
Not Playing Any More: A Qualitative Investigation of Why Amateur Musicians Cease or Continue Membership of Performing Ensembles
Accounts of leaving and continuing show that ensemble membership depends on a changing relationship between music and everyday life.
Department of the Army, Center of Military History
77th Army Band (The Pride of Fort Sill!) — lineage and honors
The official 77th Army Band document records organizational lineage and honors relevant to Fort Sill history.
Sofia Seinfeld; Heidi Figueroa; Jordi Ortiz-Gil; Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Effects of music learning and piano practice on cognitive function, mood and quality of life in older adults
A small piano study reports mixed cognitive, mood and quality-of-life findings after four months.
Lee Higgins
Community Music: In Theory and In Practice
A conceptual account of community music emphasizes hospitality, facilitation and cultural democracy.
Tammy L. Kuntz
Self-Reported Personal Traits of Adult Amateur Musicians
Adult amateur musicians’ self-descriptions offer context for participation, with important sampling and measurement limits.
Pamela G. Taylor
The Role of Music-making in the Identity Construction of Members of an Adult Community Concert Band
Members of a New Orleans concert band describe identity through shared music and attainable challenge.
Kenneth A. Douglas
A Descriptive Analysis of the Psychological Needs of Adults Participating in Music Ensembles: A Survey of New Horizon International Music Association Ensemble Participants
New Horizons participants describe musical, social and practical needs within adult ensembles.
Gary Cook
PAS Museum: History and Metamorphosis
An institutional history traces the Percussive Arts Society museum’s development and move from Oklahoma to Indiana.
Brenda Hanna-Pladdy; Alicia MacKay
The relation between instrumental musical activity and cognitive aging
Older adults with different musical histories show differences on selected cognitive measures.
Kate A. Gee
Lives and Careers in Music: A Social Identity Perspective on Brass Music-making
Brass musicians’ lives and careers are explored through social identity across amateur and professional settings.
William M. Dabback
Music and Identity Formation in Older Adults
Musical identity can develop through beginning, returning or changing instruments, without everyone adopting the same label.
Roger Mantie
A Survey of Community Bands in Ontario
An Ontario band survey draft is listed as a research lead while its published counterpart is checked.
Tyler C. King
Factors Influencing Adults’ Participation in Community Bands of Central Ohio
Central Ohio band members describe how enjoyment, leadership, repertoire and travel relate to their participation.
Nathan B. Kruse
Andragogy and Music: Canadian and American Models of Music Learning among Adults
Adult learners’ preferences challenge the assumption that everyone wants the same amount of self-direction.
Martha Jayne Griffith
Personality Traits and Musical Interests of Adult Learners in an Instrumental Music Program
New Horizons learners describe varied interests and needs for practical accommodation.
Timothy S. Brophy
Prolegomenon
A short editorial is retained as a bibliographic lead, separate from the studies it introduces.
Don D. Coffman
Voices of Experience: Interviews of Adult Community Band Members in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Adult band members in Tasmania describe how instruments, encouragement and graded opportunities shape their musical experience.
Michael Hartz
The American Community Band: History and Development
A historical account of American community bands offers a starting point for following local organizations and their sources.
William David Spencer
An Attitude Assessment of Amateur Musicians in Adult Community Bands
A large survey documents attitudes among active members of adult community bands in the 1990s.
Richard Charles Dugger
A Case Study of Interpersonal Influences in a Band Music Setting: Bohumil Makovsky (1878–1950) and His Association with Selected Individuals Involved in Instrumental Music in the State of Oklahoma, Volume I
An interview-based historical dissertation examines Bohumil Makovsky’s interpersonal influence in Oklahoma band music.
James Aubrey Jarrell
An Analysis of Achievement, Procedures, and Activities of Selected High School Band Programs in Oklahoma
A 1971 Oklahoma dissertation documents practices and achievement in selected high school band programs.
Jennifer McAllister
Health in the Winds: Wind Band Participation as a Health Promoting Activity for Older Men
Five older men describe purpose, challenge and connection through wind-band participation.
Carolyn L. Steckel
An Exploration of Flow Among Collegiate Marching Band Participants
A collegiate marching-band survey explores flow and the conditions participants associate with it.
Shuai Yang; Heng Chen; Guang Yang
Under the spotlight: social anxiety and music performance anxiety in solo-exposed wind instrumentalists compared to section players in orchestra settings
Solo-exposed wind players reported more anxiety in a cross-sectional orchestral sample.
Rafael Ramirez-Melendez; Xavier Reija
The Creative Drummer: An EEG-Based Pilot Study on the Correlates of Emotions and Creative Drum Playing
A small EEG study examines creative solo drumming rather than ensemble participation.
Rosie Perkins; Sara Ascenso; Louise Atkins; Daisy Fancourt; Aaron Williamon
Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery
Selected participants describe how a drumming programme supported their experience of recovery.
Sara Ascenso; Rosie Perkins; Louise Atkins; Daisy Fancourt; Aaron Williamon
Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers
A related analysis explores several dimensions of wellbeing in the same drumming research programme.
Rahil Rojiani; Xian Zhang; Adam Noah; Joy Hirsch
Communication of emotion via drumming: dual-brain imaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
A laboratory study examines how partners communicate emotion through drumming.
Roger Mantie
The iron cage of professionalization in community music
Professional standards and grassroots practice can create tensions worth examining.
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet; Mathew Klotz; Pearly Black; Joel Alexander Spence; Chi Lui Flora Wong; Emma Heard
An analytic device for exploring the relationship between micro- and macro-outcomes in community music
A reflective device connects local experiences with wider questions of social change.
Roger Mantie
On the value of publishing in community music
Practitioner publishing raises questions about whose knowledge becomes visible.
Te Oti Rakena; Meri Haami; Naomi Sunderland
Where the music is: First Peoples’ perspectives on community music
Place, relationships and Indigenous sovereignty shape the questions researchers should ask.
Maria Varvarigou; Andrea Creech; Susan Hallam
Beyond non-formal learning: Rethinking pedagogy in community music facilitation
A pedagogical framework helps facilitators plan and reflect on responsive musical learning.
Ryan Humphrey
Policy into practice: Reframing community music as socially engaged arts practice
A case study considers how funding priorities influence community-music practice.
Melissa Forbes
Beyond ‘making it easy’: Using the language of leadership to reframe community music facilitation
Leadership offers another way to describe the responsibilities of a community-music facilitator.
Roger Mantie
‘You Can’t Step Twice’: Thinking more about community music
An editorial revisits tensions around learning, policy and durable community relationships.
Tianyan Wang
A hypothesis on the biological origins and social evolution of music and dance
A hypothesis about musical origins offers questions to test rather than established outcomes.
Andrea Schiavio; Mathias Benedek
Dimensions of Musical Creativity
A conceptual account connects personal creativity with collective musical activity.
Niels Chr. Hansen; Andreas Højlund; Cecilie Møller; Marcus Pearce; Peter Vuust
Musicians show more integrated neural processing of contextually relevant acoustic features
Musical expertise was associated with different neural integration in one listening context.
Thomas H. Fritz; Lydia Schneider; Arno Villringer
The Band Effect—Physically Strenuous Music Making Increases Esthetic Appreciation of Music
Despite its title, this experiment concerns exercise-controlled electronic music, not a conventional band.
Massimo Lumaca; Andrea Ravignani; Giosuè Baggio
Music Evolution in the Laboratory: Cultural Transmission Meets Neurophysiology
Laboratory transmission studies offer a bounded way to study the evolution of musical systems.
Carnegie Hall / Timeline of African American Music
Syncopated Brass Bands
Useful contextual lead for African American brass-band lineage from Civil War regimental bands into later public/community performance traditions.
Library of Congress
African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883 to 1923
Important primary-source collection for African American band repertory, composers, performers, and early recordings; contextual rather than a secondary scholarly study.
Roots of American Music Trail / University of North Alabama
W. C. Handy
Useful lead for African American fraternal-band pathway: Handy directed a Knights of Pythias band in Clarksdale.
Kalamazoo Public Library
Military Bands of 19th Century Kalamazoo
Useful lead documenting Kalamazoo Colored Brass Band terminology and local band names.
Gavin Holman
The Brass Band Bibliography (v20 - 2026) [c. 15150 entries]
Essential citation-mining source for hidden brass/cornet/community-band literature, especially industrial, fraternal, and local-history leads.
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Guide to the Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera
Important archival lead for local band photographs and ephemera, including Knights of Pythias Band examples and industrial-school band material.
Rudolph Zacharias Joorst
The history of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) within the Moravian Church in South Africa
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Jeeyeon Huh
The Development of Korean Wind Ensembles as Testified by Senior Wind Musicians: Focusing on the Foundation and Early Activities of the KBA in the 1970s
Adjacent; useful contextual lead
Unknown
A Música Comunitária em Portugal
Broader community-music framework with explicit banda filarmónica context.
Sandra Inceel et al.
Sustainability in Community Music Practice / CMA 2024 Proceedings
Broad community-music proceedings; useful for second-pass leads and sustainability framework.
Unknown / UFRN author
Repertório na banda de música comunitária Nossa Senhora do Carmo
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Tennessee State Museum
Music for Your Events at Reasonable Rates: Community Bands in Tennessee
Useful public-history synthesis documenting community bands in Tennessee, including Portland Independent Order of Odd Fellows Band.
Unknown
I Play For Togetherness: Impacts of Audio-Visual Asynchrony on Feelings of Social Closeness in Adult Community Wind Band Musicians
Direct contemporary study of adult community wind-band musicians and social closeness.
Barbara Wipfler
Frauen/Männer/Blasmusik
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Bryan Proksch and George Foreman, editors
Bands in American Musical History: Inflection Points and Reappraisals
Major adjacent source for American band historiography and citation mining; likely useful for civic/community, ethnic, institutional, and industrial-band leads.
Marvin McNeill
We Dem Folks . . . To Be Continued: Disrupting the Negative Social Imagery of African American Youth Through a Close Study of the To Be Continued Brass Band Across Screen Media
Directly studies a named African American brass band and its social/community representation across media.
Sarah Politz
Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
Direct/adjacent; includes brass-band case studies
Heather Jane Armsby
The Role of Gender in the British Brass Band
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Juan Antonio Verdía Díaz
La música en los procesos de modernización cultural. La Banda Municipal de Cádiz y el ambiente musical de dos épocas convulsas, 1850-1900 y 1929-1942
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Luc Vertommen
Context en muzikaal modernisme in het repertoire voor harmonieorkest van Paul Gilson en Les Synthésistes tijdens het fin de siècle en het interbellum in Brussel
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Claire Milburn
The Development of Marching Band Traditions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: The Human Jukebox versus the Sonic Boom of the South
Adjacent but valuable for African American band identity, institutional rivalry, performance practice, and community meaning.
Delaware County Historical Society
Delaware Ohio Brass Bands 1800s
Useful lead documenting 'Delaware Colored Brass Band' and local brass-band ecology.
Carissa Neil
Community Bands
Directly about community bands; includes literature review and U.S. context.
Cooper Neil
COMMUNITY BANDS: CREATING A MORE ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY BAND EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE USE OF MULTI-LEVEL REPERTOIRE
Direct community-band source with repository PDF or download endpoint.
Eva Margarida Figueiredo da Silva
Banda Filarmónica: Uma Prática Cultural Amadora
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Marianne Radócz
Wind Bands for Hungarian Community Music
Directly connects wind bands and Hungarian community music.
Aparecido Vicente de Souza
Música em surdina: etnografia de uma banda de música civil brasileira
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Christopher Troiano
From Antiquity to Academia: A History of Early American Brass Bands and a Way Forward for Their Adaptation within Institutions of Higher Learning
Important recent dissertation on the American brass-band movement and revival/adaptation.
Center for Folklore Studies / Ohio State University
The Second Regiment Marching Band Columbus, Ohio
Important lead on a long-lived African American civic band in Columbus, led by a father and son over 70-plus years.
Noah D. Moe
The development of the brass band movement in North America: An analysis of the structure, history, and condition of active British-style brass bands
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Joel M. Crawford
Performance Practice of Brass Band Music of the American Civil War Era: A Perspective from Saxton's Cornet Band
Relevant to historical brass-band performance practice; community relevance through period bands and revival ensemble context.
Unknown
Importância das Bandas Filarmónicas no Ensino da Música em Portugal na perspetiva de um Maestro e de um músico
Strongly relevant to Portuguese philharmonic bands and music education.
James D. Dordzro
Brass Band Music in Ghana: The Indigenisation of European Brass Band Music
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Katlin L. Harris
The Stanocola Refinery Band: Industry, Tradition, and Community
Strongly relevant industrial/workplace band study; also mentions lodge and school band ecology.
Bryan Proksch
Music and Oil in Beaumont: A History of the Magnolia Petroleum Band
Highly relevant industrial-band case connected to company sponsorship, community identity, and American band history.
Jean-Marc Ramos
La banda del batallón cívico de Talca-Chile
Contextual-to-strong relevance: civic band history with municipal/community implications.
Inês Isabel Henriques Fonseca
Estratégias de Marketing nas Bandas Filarmónicas em Portugal
Strongly relevant to Portuguese philharmonic bands as community cultural organizations.
Claire Milburn
An Oral History of Marching Band Traditions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Adjacent but important for African American band culture, institutional-community identity, and marching-band tradition.
Robert H. Clark
A Narrative History of African American Marching Band: Toward A Historicultural Understanding
Strongly relevant adjacent literature for African American civic, educational, and community band traditions; not limited to adult community bands.
Gonçalo Domingos Alves Marques
Iniciação ao estudo do eufónio: banda filarmónica e o ensino artístico especializado de música
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
E. Harper
Musical learning, development and mediation: A case study of the Delta Langbroek Band in the Music van de Caab project in the Western Cape
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Ivana Bezerra de Castro Martins
Banda de música da força policial militar do Ceará: uma história social de práticas e identidades musicais (c.1850-1930)
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Bryan Raya
A Survey of the Current Financial Trends in American Adult Community Bands
Direct community-band source with repository PDF or download endpoint.
D.A. Okyere
Development of Brass Band Music of The Salvation Army, A Study of The Mamprobi Corps
Direct / church-community band
Beatriz Cancela Montes
La Banda Municipal de Música de Santiago de Compostela (1848-2015)
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Christina Forrer
Jugendförderung in Blasmusikvereinen des Kantons St. Gallen
Relevant to Swiss wind-band clubs and recruitment/youth development.
Linda H. Hendriks and Evert H. Bisschop Boele
Orkesten onder druk? Onderzoek naar de HaFaBra-sector in Noord-Nederland
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Laurent Martino
La Fanfare en Europe, un exemple des relations internationales de loisirs dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle
Strongly relevant to European fanfare networks and CISM/confederation structures.
Gillian French
Follow the band: community brass bands in the Scottish Borders
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Paulo Esteireiro
As Bandas de Música no distrito de Lisboa entre a Regeneração e a República
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Debbie Rohwer
Making Music as an Adult: What Do the Spouses Think?
Contextual source on adult music-making and family/spousal perceptions; relevant to adult community-band participation literature.
Courtney Osborn
Faster, higher, louder: the effects of competition on the British brass band movement from 1913-2013
Strongly relevant historical brass-band movement scholarship.
Ana Sílvia Alves Lemos
A banda filarmónica como associação e meio de animação sociocultural: estudo de caso da Banda de Amares
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Polly K. Middleton
The Bloomington Town Band and Indiana University Band 1818-1898: How Community Music Informed the Development of University Music
Direct historical study of town-band/community music links to university music.
Unknown / Universiteit Utrecht master student
Blaasmuziek & Imago
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Cheryl A. Bowles
A Study of Community Band Participants: Implications for Music Education
Direct participant study; important for adult participation and post-school music education.
Peter J. Jutras
The Benefits of New Horizons Band Participation as Self-Reported by Selected New Horizons Band Members
Large survey of perceived benefits among New Horizons Band participants.
David Samuel Thomas
Critical influences affecting the contemporary brass playing community
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Don D. Coffman
Survey of New Horizons International Music Association Musicians
Major survey of New Horizons musicians; important well-being and participation source.
Vincent Dubois, Jean-Matthieu Méon, Emmanuel Pierru
Les mondes de l'harmonie
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Rodney L. Miller
The Impact of the American Community Band on Music Education
Direct community-band source with repository PDF or download endpoint.
Gregory D. Booth Hebert / David G. Hebert
Music transmission in an Auckland Tongan community youth band
Direct case study of a community youth brass band and cultural transmission.
William M. Dabback
Identity formation through participation in the Rochester New Horizons Band programme
Direct New Horizons Band case focused on identity formation.
Myra King Rhoden
A History of the Tara Winds Community Band, Jonesboro, Georgia, 1988-2008
Direct community-band source with repository PDF or download endpoint.
Kari K. Veblen
The many ways of community music
Foundational broader community-music framework applicable to community bands but not band-specific.
Unknown / Cité de la Musique colloquium contributors
Les fanfares en France
Direct or adjacent research source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, or municipal band traditions.
Mário Sérgio Moreira
Inclusão, identidade e o método Da Capo na aprendizagem instrumental em uma banda filarmônica
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
William M. Dabback
Toward a Model of Adult Music Learning as a Socially-Embedded Phenomenon
Foundational dissertation behind Dabback's later New Horizons identity work.
Debbie Rohwer and Don D. Coffman
Relationships Between Wind Band Membership, Activity Level, Spirituality, and Quality of Life in Older Adults
Strongly relevant to adult wind-band participation and well-being.
Antonia Ceschi-Smith
Music Education and Community Development in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Carnegie Centre Jazz Band
Adjacent but strong community-band/community-music case; jazz band rather than wind/brass band.
Mary Ellen Cavitt
Factors Influencing Participation in Community Bands
Direct multi-state study of factors influencing adult participation in community bands.
Celso José Rodrigues Benedito
Banda de música Teodoro de Faria: perfil de uma banda civil brasileira através de uma abordagem histórica, social e musical de seu papel na comunidade
Direct or adjacent academic source for community, civic, brass, wind, philharmonic, harmony, fanfare, or municipal band traditions.
Keith Raymond Bean
The Knights of Pythias Band of Champaign, Illinois: Their Place in American Band History and an Analysis of Selected Cornet Solos from Their Performance Library
Direct fraternal/community band case study; important for Knights of Pythias band literature and American civic/fraternal band history.
Sara Beth Keough
The Geography of Community Bands in Virginia
Direct community-band source with repository PDF or download endpoint.
Don D. Coffman
Banding Together: New Horizons in Lifelong Music Making
Major community-music article on New Horizons bands and lifelong music making.
Don D. Coffman and M. Adamek
Perceived Social Support of New Horizons Band Participants
Direct New Horizons/social support source.
Trevor Herbert
The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History
Foundational scholarly monograph on British brass-band movement and community/working-class culture.
Don D. Coffman and M. Adamek
The Contributions of Wind Band Participation to Quality of Life of Senior Adults
Strongly relevant to senior adult wind-band participation and quality of life.
Deborah A. Sheldon
Participation in Community and Company Bands in Japan
Directly about adult participation in Japanese community and company bands.
Richard Scott Cohen
The Musical Society Community Bands of Valencia, Spain: A Global Study of Their Administration, Instrumentation, Repertoire, and Performance Activities
Directly about community bands in Valencian musical societies.
Rolf S. Olson
The History and Development of the Dalesburg Cornet Band
Direct history of a named long-running community/cornet band.
Don D. Coffman and Karen M. Levy
Senior Adult Bands: Music's New Horizon
Strongly relevant to senior adult band movement and lifelong music making.
Anne M. Marvin
Facing the Music: The Turn-of-the-Century Hometown Band
Useful local-history article on hometown bands; cited in community-band bibliographies.
Don D. Coffman
Musical Backgrounds and Interests of Active Older Adult Band Members
Early older-adult band-member study; foundational for New Horizons/adult-band literature.
Christine K. Bowen
Adult Community Bands in the Southeastern United States: An Investigation of Current Activity and Background Profiles of the Participants
Direct multi-state study of adult community bands in the U.S. Southeast.
Gordon Wingate Bowie
R. B. Hall and the Community Bands of Maine
Direct historical study of R. B. Hall and Maine community bands.
Trevor Herbert
Victorian Brass Bands: The Establishment of a 'Working-Class Musical Tradition'
Major historical account of brass bands as working-class/community institutions.
Roy E. Ernst and Scott Emmons
New Horizons for Senior Adults
Foundational article documenting the creation and first year of the New Horizons Band model for senior adults.
Susan Lyle-Smith
Nathaniel Clark Smith (1877-1934): African-American Musician, Music Educator and Composer
Highly relevant African American bandmaster study; documents Knights of Pythias Band activity, community ensembles, school bands, and industrial music networks.
Donna K. Rothrock
The Perpetuation of the Moravian Instrumental Music Tradition: Bernard Jacob Pfohl and the Salem, North Carolina, Bands (1879-1960)
Strong regional/community band history linked to Moravian instrumental music.
Kenneth Kreitner
Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania
Foundational book on town bands and community life in Pennsylvania.
Emma Scogna Rocco
Italian Wind Bands: A Surviving Tradition in the Milltowns of Lawrence and Beaver Counties of Pennsylvania
Major study of Italian immigrant wind-band traditions in Pennsylvania mill towns.
Frank Chester Patterson
Motivational Factors Contributing to Participation in Community Bands of the Montachusett Region of North Central Massachusetts
Direct early dissertation on motives for community-band participation.
Peter J. Martin
A Status Study of Community Bands in the United States
Major national status study of U.S. community bands; widely cited as one of the most comprehensive early studies.
Benjamin Richard Compton
Amateur Instrumental Music in America, 1765 to 1810
Contextual early American amateur instrumental-music source relevant to pre-band civic/community music roots.
Unknown
Music in the Oklahoma Territory: 1889-1907
Relevant territorial music history with community and local band evidence.
Clayton Howard Tiede
The Development of Minnesota Community Bands During the Nineteenth Century
Direct historical dissertation on nineteenth-century Minnesota community bands.
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