Alabama Music Educators Association

Greetings fellow collegiate educators of Alabama,

I hope you had a nice summer and that your school year is off to a good start. Very soon, we’ll be gathering together at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center in Montgomery for the 2012 Alabama Music Educators Conference. I look forward to seeing you there.

This year we have structured the HED events at the conference primarily around Friday. Some HED events will take place on Thursday, but we’re considering Friday to be the “unofficial” HED day. On this day, we’ll have the most HED presentations, the recital, the business meeting, and the mixer. I hope this will make it possible for many of you to attend these events. I know schedules are particularly packed, especially near the beginning of a semester.

At this year’s AMEA conference, we will have an opportunity to feature many small chamber ensembles in the many lobbies of the Convention Center in between events. If you have an interest in having your group perform, either student or faculty, please let me know. Our only request is that ensembles be on the soft end of the dynamic spectrum, due to noise bleed throughout the building. Lori Ardovino will be sending out a request for performers for this, as well as for the HED recital, soon.

Applied music professors: please consider submitting an article for Ala Breve. The “Call for Submissions” at the end of this update is really directed toward any of you who would be interested in publishing in a peer reviewed format. Simply put, this just means that your article will be selected by a review committee prior to publication. It is an excellent opportunity for you to share your vast knowledge of your particular area of expertise with our readers.

As always, if you have any suggestions as to how we can improve the HED area of AMEA, please don’t hesitate to contact me. The AMEA Board meets periodically to discuss all facets of our organization and I am happy to bring any issues to the table for you. I appreciate your continued support.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Ala Breve is seeking submissions of research articles for the Summer 2012 “Special Research” Edition to be published during the summer, 2012. Submissions may consist of quantitative, qualitative, descriptive, historical, philosophical, or any other kind of accepted research conducted by university faculty and/or active practitioners. The deadline for the submission is May 1, 2012. Submission Guidelines (adapted from the Submission Guidelines of Update: Applications of Research in Music Education) 1. Manuscripts must be research-based. 2. Manuscripts may present a single research study or a review of the literature. 3. Articles should be unique and not published elsewhere. In accordance with the Code of Ethics, submitting a manuscript indicates that it has not been published previously and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, either in its entirety or in part. 4. Authors should comply with APA ethical standards (www.apa.org/ethics/ code2002.html) and institutional and federal regulations in the treatment of human subjects. 5. Quantitative manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001). Nonquantitative and historical studies may conform to APA style or to The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003). Authors may not mix styles within a manuscript. 8. Authors should submit four copies of typed, double-spaced manuscripts, which normally should not exceed 20 pages, along with an abstract of approximately 150 words. Authors should also submit 4 to 6 keywords relating to their article’s content. Type size should be no smaller than 12 points (double-spacing should include 28 points total for a line of text and the following line). Figures and drawings should be camera-ready. 9. To preserve the author’s anonymity in the review process, the manuscript should not reveal the author’s identity or institutional affiliation. The author’s name, address (including e-mail, if available), and institutional affiliation should appear only on a separate cover sheet. Manuscripts not conforming to this stipulation will be returned. 10. Manuscripts should be addressed to: Dr. Carl Hancock, University of Alabama School of Music, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.