The MERFY Podcast

I'M BACK! Thanks for being patient as I tackled a large portion of my comprehensive exams!

This week, I’m bringing you a 2023 piece from Psychology of Music called, “Building a mental toolbox: relationships between strategy choice and sight-singing performance in higher education” by Justine Pomerleau-Turcotte, Francis Dubé, Maria Teresa Moreno Sala, and Francois Vachon.

Full Citation:

Pomerleau-Turcotte, J., Dubé, F., Moreno Sala, M. T., & Vachon, F. (2023). Building a mental toolbox: Relationships between strategy choice and sight-singing performance in higher education. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 119–139. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087444

 Link for the latest edition of Carol Krueger’s “Progressive Sight Singing."

In this episode, I cover a 2021 article from Frontiers in Psychology titled, “Hard Work and Hopefulness: A Mixed Methods Study of Music Students’ Status and Beliefs in Relation to Health, Wellbeing, and Success as They Enter Specialized Higher Education” by Dawn C. Rose, Carlo Sigrist, and Elena Alessandri.

Full citation:

Rose, D. C., Sigrist, C., & Alessandri, E. (2021). Hard Work and Hopefulness: A Mixed Methods Study of Music Students’ Status and Beliefs in Relation to Health, Wellbeing, and Success as They Enter Specialized Higher Education. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 740775–740775. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740775

In this episode, I talk about a 2023 article from the Journal of Music Teacher Education called, “The Push to 120: Reconciling Credit Hours in Undergraduate Music Education,” by Andrea Maas, Aaron T. Wacker, and Ashley D. Allen.

Full Citation:

Maas, A., Wacker, A. T., & Allen, A. D. (2023). The Push to 120: Reconciling Credit Hours in Undergraduate Music Education. Journal of Music Teacher Education, 33(1), 86–102. https://doi.org/10.1177/10570837231189822

In this episode, I cover a 2016 article from the Journal of Research in Music Education titled, “Bullying Victimization Among Music Ensemble and Theatre Students in the United States” by authors Kenneth Elpus and Bruce Allen Carter. 

NOTE! Next week is spring break - I'm taking a week off from the podcast to spend time with my husband, my kid, and my cat. I'll see you back here on 03/18/24!

Full Citation:

Elpus, K., & Carter, B. A. (2016). Bullying Victimization Among Music Ensemble and Theatre Students in the United States. Journal of Research in Music Education, 64(3), 322–343.

This episode covers a 2023 piece from Research Studies in Music Education called, “Music teacher mothers’ career navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic,” by Lisa Huisman Koops, Kelsey Kordella Giotta, friend of the pod Jessica LG Steuver, and Julie Ballantyne.

Special thanks to Jessica for reaching out and sharing this piece with us!

Full citation:

Koops, L. H., Giotta, K. K., Steuver, J. L. G., & Ballantyne, J. (2023). Music teacher mothers’ career navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Studies in Music Education, doi:10.1177/1321103X231206017

WE'RE BACK! I missed you!

This week, I'm covering a piece from friend of the podcast and valued mentor Dr. Robert H Woody. This is a 2023 study from Psychology of Music called, “University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study.”

Full citation:

Woody, R. H. (2023). University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study. Psychology of Music, 51(2), 553–564. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221095259

This week, I cover a 2004 piece from the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy called, “Thinking in Sound - A Qualitative Study of Metaphors for Pitch Perception” by Kathy A. Thompson.

QUICK NOTE! No new episode next week - I'll be off nerding out at the Midwestern ACDA conference! See you back on the 19th (in the episode, I definitely say the 12th on accident ... WOOPS!)

Full citation:

Thompson, Kathy A. (2004) “Thinking In Sound - A Qualitative Study Of Metaphors For Pitch Perception,” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy: Vol. 18, Article 5.

Part 2 of 2 discussing another chapter from The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education called, “The Sounds of Hope: Music Homeplaces and Compassionate, Abolitionist Music Teaching,” by Emily Good-Perkins. 

Link for CIACP Worksheet!

Full Citations:

Good-Perkins, E (2023). The sounds of hope: music homeplaces and compassionate, abolitionist music teaching. In K. S. Hendricks (Ed.), The oxford handbook of care in music education (pp. 449-462) Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197611654.013.24 

See also: Love, B. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press.