Where can I get dissertations on tuba teaching techniques?

[threedognate]

"A College Level Tuba Curriculum: Developed Through the Study of the Teaching Techniques of William Bell, Harvey Phillips, and Daniel Perantoni at Indiana ..." by Geoffrey Whitehead - available through amazon.com and other sources.

[porkchopsisgood]

Try dissertation abstracts.....try RILM.....try Google Scholar.......try FirstSearch......try UMI......plenty of search engines to explore, especially if you are in college and can use your school's database subscriptions.

Written like a grad student taking Intro to Research in Music......

BTW....you can buy them through UMI for 30-40 bucks....typically a school will not allow interlibrary loan of dissertations....FYI

[threedognate]

My experiences have shown that university libraries will loan dissertations through the interlibrary loan process, if copies are available - sometimes a university will not loan an original if they don't hold any other copies. Often, the copy that is loaned is on microfilm or (less common) microfiche. I've obtained copies of approximately 60-75 dissertations through the interlibrary loan system over the past 4-5 years for different research projects. If you are connected to a college or university library, this can be a great (and inexpensive) resource.

[ufoneum]

UMI is the clearinghouse for most dissertations. When I have needed to use ILL (inter-library loan) to get copies, most of the time they send them on microfilm or fiche, which can be a little tiring.

One idea, which worked well for me, is to contact the person who wrote the dissertation. Most of the time they are a professor at a college somewhere in the United States, and I have had great luck simply asking for a copy of the manuscript. Most of the time these people are simply overjoyed that someone is actually reading what they spent months compiling, and will gladly mail you a copy.

Happy hunting,

- Pat Stuckemeyer