Joseph A. Labuta is Professor Emeritus of Music and former Director of Music Education at Wayne State University. He is the author of Teaching Musicianship in the High School Band.

Wendy K. Matthews is Associate Professor of Music Education and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Curriculum and Assessment at Kent State University. She has published in numerous journals and is the author of the chapter "Music pedagogy for large group teaching" in the Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community.