One home for the research.
September 8, 2026: Community Band Research Project makes the site’s broader role explicit. The Science of Making Music material remains here within the project. Contextual links now connect existing research themes with Oklahoma historical examples and practical return-to-playing guidance. All 83 source records and their appraisal limits are retained; this update does not claim new full-text review.
September 15, 2026
expanded research integrated into Community Bands
103 new source notes were added after duplicate checking, bringing the searchable library to 219 records. Additional unverified and partially verified material remains visible in the research pipeline.
September 7, 2026 · Citation and access review
Clearer references and a recovered source.
Author attributions for R012, R015, R022 and R031 were corrected against publisher or repository records. Full titles and author lists were reconciled where metadata was available. R053 now links to the matched Ottawa repository record. R012 identifies the outstanding access restriction on its publisher correction. These are bibliographic updates; they do not represent new full-text appraisals of all sources.
Community Bands
A collection that keeps growing.
New material will broaden the sources, deepen the appraisals and bring missing perspectives into view.
September 7, 2026 · First release
The initial collection is open.
The first release brings together 83 source records and seven themes. Records distinguish direct community band material, related music and arts research, and historical or institutional context.
The collection includes full main-text and targeted appraisals, with incomplete editions, supplements and outstanding checks identified. Known relationships between repeated samples are linked on the source pages.
Where the work goes next.
- Add new sources with their methods, settings and limitations intact.
- Replace partial or supplementary material with fuller appraisals where a complete work becomes available.
- Seek accounts of people who did not join, left, or tried to return without success.
- Expand attention to access, disability, costs, less positive experiences and follow-up over time.
- Corroborate historical dates and organizational continuity with original records.
These are areas for further work, not findings already established by the collection. Topic notes and source records will be revised as the evidence develops.
September 9, 2026
Twenty additions and a shared-sample clarification.
This release adds 20 source notes, bringing the collection to 103 records. Each new note identifies the type of work and the extent of production checking. Five overlapping intake papers were matched to existing records; they were not added as duplicates. The earlier 83 appraisals keep their individual dates.
The Perkins (2016) and Ascenso (2018) qualitative drumming papers share the same 39 participants. They are linked with the related Fancourt (2016) programme report. Hypotheses, editorials, clinical drumming and solo laboratory tasks are not presented as direct evidence of ordinary community-band effects.
Older men’s wind-band participation · Responsive musical learning · Related drumming studies
September 10, 2026
Thirteen additions, with different kinds of evidence.
The collection now contains 219 source records. This update adds three sources focused directly on community bands, eight related music or neuroscience papers, a 1928 book review and a Nebraska magazine feature. The notes identify the material checked and distinguish observations, interventions, theory and historical context.
The Hartz–Bauer ear-playing paper appears once despite three intake copies. Goodrich’s leisure-time article was already in the collection and remains a single record. The earlier 103 notes retain their individual review dates.
Research overview · Ear playing · Performance anxiety · Teaching materials in 1928 · Nebraska community-band profile