The links below will help you locate research, apply for research grants, and find resources for researchers:
The AOSA Research Grant encourages research in varied applications of Orff Schulwerk, promoting the Orff Schulwerk philosophy and process.
The Research Partnership Grant encourages collaborative research projects between a school-music teacher as the primary investigator/team leader and a university-based researching teacher.
The Webliography is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of research in Orff Schulwerk related to music teaching and learning from different countries around the world.
The Resource Library contains many articles about research into Orff Schulwerk applications in the classroom and teaching practice. Filter your search using The Orff Echo as category and Research as subject.
The AOSA Excellence in Research Award recognizes and honors those researchers who have a distinguished record of scholarship and sustained engagement in research activity that contributes to the principles and practices of Orff Schulwerk.
The Isabel McNeill Carley Library comprises an extensive archive from nearly 40 years of AOSA — its work, its events, its people, much of its research and its history. AOSA established the Carley Library in 1982, naming it in honor of one of its founding members and long-time editor of The Orff Echo. The collection is housed within the Sibley Music Library on the campus of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. The century-old Sibley is world-renowned for its vast resources and the expertise of its staff.
Since 2001, when the Carley Library was transferred to Sibley from the University of Arizona, the valuable AOSA collection has been overseen by Special Collections Librarian and Archivist David Peter Coppen. He has developed the Finding Aid to help researchers locate materials within the Carley Library. Whenever new materials are sent to him from AOSA, he revises the Finding Aid to reflect the new additions.
Materials in the Carley library are one-of-a-kind, and cannot be removed from the building. Access to the collection is obtained through a direct inquiry to Mr. Coppen. He welcomes the opportunity to help members use the Finding Aid to identify materials. Once identified, library staff is available to make scans of content that can be sent via email. In most cases, it is also possible to obtain photocopies at $.15/page.
For extensive research, AOSA members will need to come to Rochester to use the records on-site at the Carley Library. Staff members will bring the documents to the research tables in Special Collections reading room for further study.
To learn now to use the Finding Aid, or to learn more about the Isabel McNeill Carley Library, contact Mr. Coppen directly:
DAVID PETER JOHN COPPEN (he/him/his)
Special Collections Librarian and School Archivist
Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester
[email protected]
office (585) 274-1335
(585) 274-1335
Andrea Schuler, Special Collections Assistant, is also available for research assistance and archival access. You may contact her at [email protected]
Many other tools for researchers are available through the Sibley Library Web site, such as the online Voyager catalogue. To plan a visit or to find out more about the Sibley Library at the Eastman School of music, visit their Web site at: http://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/
The Research Poster Session at the AOSA Professional Development Conference shares research employing qualitative, quantitative, mixed, philosophical, and historical methodologies in music education. Submissions of action research studies completed by music educators in their classrooms are encouraged. Our focus is on four areas:
- historical and philosophical foundations
- students’ musical learning and understanding
- teacher education
- arts integration
Application information can be found on the conference Presenter/Performer Registration and Information page.