Digital methods have begun to make their way into the research practices of music scholars, and most this insurgence can be attributed to the rise of the discipline of music technology. Though music encoding is becoming increasingly prevalent among the research and teaching methodologies of music scholars, evidence gathered from course descriptions and presentations at national meetings of music scholars would indicate that encoding continues to lag other music-based technologies. Drawing from the advancement of music technology and the experiences of digital humanities teaching and scholarship, this paper presents a path for the music encoding community to promote greater integration of encoding and digital methods more broadly into the pedagogical practices of music historians and music theorists.