ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses self-regulated learning (SRL) in the context of music. SRL holds significant potential for increasing the efficiency of musical skill acquisition across all aspects of music performance instruction. It provides implications for how SRL might be adopted more widely in the music education domain. The chapter reviews selected research that has studied skill acquisition when learning to play a musical instrument. Autonomy has been examined as an important motivational antecedent to the use of SRL strategies in music. Research that clarifies more precisely how students develop into self-regulated musicians deserves special attention from music scholars who wish to draw upon and integrate some of the major developments in education into their own research. Adapting and expanding current theories on this issue and drawing on and integrating information from other areas of educational psychology will enable music researchers to develop more sophisticated theories of musical development that can be used to underpin future teaching and learning in music.
