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Deborah A. Sheldon

Deborah A. Sheldon


Deborah Confredo (formerly Sheldon) is Professor Music Education and Director of Graduate Programs for Music Education at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University. Confredo's specialties include instrumental rehearsal techniques and teaching methods, assessment, research, music psychology, cognitive-behavioral techniques, conducting, wind band literature, and systematic observation. Confredo has taught elementary and secondary instrumental music in Pennsylvania and New York. Her numerous articles in music education, pedagogy, and research are published in journals such as the Journal for Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (CRME), Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal for Music Teacher Education, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Educators Journal, Journal of Band Research, The Instrumentalist, and Contributions to Music Education, as well as in several state music education journals. A past editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Confredo has also served multiple terms as an editorial board member for that journal as well as the Journal of Research in Music Education, as is currently an editorial board member for Education.

She has co-authored the texts The Complete Woodwind Instructor: A Guidebook for the Music Educatorand Lessons in Performance (FJH), and is editor of Superior Bands in Sixteen Weeks, and Chorales and Rhythmic Etudes for Superior Bands. She is an instrumental editor, arranger, author, and consultant for the FJH Music Company and lead author for the FJH publication Measures of Success, a band method for beginning and intermediate instrumentalists. She is founder of the Temple Night Owls Campus/Community Band. Confredo is in demand as clinician, adjudicator, guest conductor, and lecturer. Tau Beta Sigma and the Illinois Music Educators Association have honored her for her distinguished service to music and music education. Mansfield University has recognized her as a distinguished alumnus. At home in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area, Confredo plays saxophones and keyboards in the four-member jazz fusion band, West River Drive.

Explore Publications by Deborah A. Sheldon


TitleEnsembleSeriesGradeItemNew!
Lessons in Performance Book 1 Around the WorldConcert BandLessons in PerformanceBB205
Chorales and Rhythm Etudes for Superior Bands Concert BandSuperior BandsBB206
Measures of Success® for Band Book 1Concert BandMeasures of Success®BB208
Measures of Success® for Band Book 2Concert BandMeasures of Success®BB210
Superior Bands in Sixteen Weeks Concert BandSuperior BandsBB204