The Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 issues of "UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education," in one print volume, presents hard facts and statistical data in a style that can be easily understood and appreciated by music researchers, teachers, graduates, and undergraduates alike. Includes advice to first-year music teachers, instrument preferences in children, setting an appropriate learning pace, and the practices and procedures at adjudicated orchestra festivals. Some of the articles included in this volume are as follows: Applications of Research In Music Education contains: Comments from the Editor (Ruth V. Brittin); Special Topics Division contains: What I've Learned About Research from Young Children (Wendy Sim); Improving Student Practicing through Application of Motor-Learning Research (G. Joshua Sanders); Elementary Division contains: (1) Integration of Music in the Elementary Curriculum: Perceptions of Preservice Elementary Education Majors (Melissa Berke and Cynthia M Colwel); and Classroom Instrument Preferences Among 4-to 9-Year-Olds in a Free-Play Setting (Janice N. Killian and Lynn Basinger); Instrumental Division contains: Steering from the Caboose: Setting the Pace of Group Piano Instruction According to the Least Skilled Students in the Class (Robert A. Duke and Cynthia Benson). Also contains Announcements and Guidelines for Contributors.