ABSTRACT
When Charles Schmidt and his colleagues wrote the preceding paragraph in 1991, it was an accurate perspective of the state of research on applied music instruction. Today, the statement is less accurate. In the last two decades, the work of Schmidt and others has begun to open the door to understanding instruction in the music studio. While we still know much less about applied music instruction than we do about classroom music instruction, the number of researchers focusing on examining the complexity of instruction in the applied studio has dramatically increased.
