Benefits of Listing to Instrumental Music (http://freebeatguide.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/benefits-of-listening-to-instrumental-music/) This short article offers a popular music perspective as to why instrumental music listening is beneficial for listeners and musicians. This serves as a good contrast to the more art music-oriented perspectives often available to students.

Music and Learning (http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Arts%20in%20Education/brewer.htm/) This reprint, via Johns Hopkins’ School of Education, of Christ Brewer’s 1995 article from Music and Learning  provides a more complete context for many of the educational assumptions people make about music listening, particularly instrumental music listening, due to “soft-science” news stories and phenomena such as the “Mozart Effect.” This article details how music interacts with learning and is learning unto itself and places music as a concrete part of education, even if it’s not music education. This article is a good companion to the last chapter and to the textbook as a whole.