Finding Aid for Mary E Hoffman Papers, 1948-1995 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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Collection Overview

Title: Mary E Hoffman Papers, 1948-1995Add to your cart.

ID: 12/5/57

Primary Creator: Hoffman, Mary E. (1926-1997)

Extent: 2.5 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Date Acquired: 01/15/2010

Subjects: Faculty Papers, Music, School of, Music teachers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of lesson plans, lecture notes and handouts produced for music education and music history classes and workshops, research papers and articles, speeches and choral arrangements composed by Hoffman documenting her career as a music educator and contributor to the scholarly field of music education. In addition there are Hoffman's student papers and correspondence produced while at Lebanon Valley College and the Teachers College at Columbia University. The papers are organized in three series: Series 1, Instructional Papers and Professional Presentations, 1957-1995; Series 2, Research and Publications, 1964-1993; and Series 3, Hoffman's Undergraduate and Graduate School Student Notes and Papers, 1948 and 1969-1973. Folders are arranged chronologically within each series.

Biographical Note

Mary E. Hoffman was known for her work as an elementary and junior high school music teacher, professor of music education, author of music textbooks and arranger of choral music. She was born on October 18, 1926 in Reading, PA, and received a B.S. in Music and Music Education from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA in 1948. She received her master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1951 and later pursued doctoral studies at Northwestern University.

During her early career as a music educator, she taught choral, instrumental and general music for ten years in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut public schools. She subsequently served as the elementary vocal music supervisor for the Philadelphia Public School System for five years, and later served as the junior high school music supervisor in Milwaukee, WI.

Hoffman joined the faculty of the University of Illinois' School of Music at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, where she remained until her retirement in May of 1996. She served as president of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) from 1980-1982, and was renowned internationally as a leader in the field of education, specifically middle school music education. She authored five editions of the public school textbooks, World of Music and The Music Connection (Silver Burdett Co.) and several publications about music education including Teacher Competence and the Balanced Music Curriculum (MENC, 1985), and Teaching Music, What, How, Why (1973) which she co-authored with Alice S. Beer. She also wrote arrangements of choral music for junior high school students, and served as a guest conductor, speaker and clinician at nationwide and international engagements.

Hoffman received recognition for her contributions to music education through alumna citations from Lebanon Valley College and Teachers College, and the Distinguished Service Award from MENC. Hoffman died on March 18, 1997, and was inducted posthumously into the Music Educator's Hall of Fame during the annual meeting of the Music Educator's National Conference in 1998.

Subject/Index Terms

Faculty Papers
Music, School of
Music teachers

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: School of Music

Acquisition Method: Transfer

Related Materials: Mary E. Hoffman Papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries. For more information please see http://lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do;jsessionid=B39C4072F59C605643EAB623EEE7D9F9?source=MdU.ead.scpa.0053.xml&style=ead.


Box and Folder Listing


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[Series 2: Research and Publications, 1964-1993],
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Series 1: Instructional Papers and Professional Presentations, 1957-1995Add to your cart.
Consists of presentation speeches and notes; workshop/clinic handouts, notes, and correspondence; and student papers and course curriculae. In addition there are reports for Hoffman's two sabbaticals, vitae, and student doctoral proposals.  These materials were produced and/or accumulated by Hoffman throughout her professional career as a school music teacher, professor of music education, and contributor to the development of music educational standards for public schools.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Elementary School Workshop Research (1 of 2), 1957-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Elementary School Workshop Research (2 of 2), 1968-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 3: High School Workshop Research (1 of 2), 1959-1974Add to your cart.
Folder 4: High School Workshop Research (2 of 2), 1969-1978Add to your cart.
Folder 5: "Teaching Concepts through Music" Workshop Notes, 1964-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Concert Program Notes and Papers (Milwaukee, WI), ca. 1965-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 7: "What is so General about Music" Workshop Notes, 1967-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 8: "Teaching Music: What, How and Why" Speech Notes, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Aesthetic Education Workshop, 1969-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Music of the Classical Period - History of Opera Curriculum, 1971-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 11: University of Illinois Faculty Load Forms, 1971-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Illinois Office of Education Certification Requirements, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 13: "Conceptual Education" Workshop Notes, 1974-1978Add to your cart.
Folder 14: University of Illinois Capricious Grading Committee, 1975-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 15: "Generating Excitement in Junior High School General Music" Workshop Notes, 1976-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 16: "Aesthetic Education in Action" Workshop Notes, 1977-1979Add to your cart.
Folder 17: "Some thoughts on Methods Teaching" Speech, 1978Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Carl Orff Symposium in Salzburg Program, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 19: "Perspectives on Music for the General Student in the 1990s" Research, ca. 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Review of Masters of Arts in Education Program at University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Society for General Music In-Service Eastern Division Correspondence, 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 22: "Recent Research on Young Children" Speech, 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Sabbatical Leave Reports, 1984 and 1992Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Charles Leonhard's Speeches, 1984-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Virginia Stateboard Presentation and "Teacher Competence and the Balanced Music Curriculum" Speech, 1985, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Dee Justice Doctoral Proposal, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Elizabeth Ann Bedsole Doctoral Thesis, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 5: "Climate Illinois Music Education" Speech, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Illinois Music Educators Association Conference Programs and Notes, 1986-1987Add to your cart.
Folder 7: "Advocacy and the Arts" Speech, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 8: University of Illinois School of Music Commencement Speech, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Eastern Division MENC Workshop Notes, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 10: "World of Music" One Day Workshop, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Letters to Steve Katz, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Vita, ca. 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Claudia Woll's Teaching Assistant Letter, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 14: "The Potential for MENC as a Leader in Arts Education Policy" Speech and Committee on Institutional Cooperation Conference Notes, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Post-Sabbatical Survey and Music 4XX Course Outline, 1991-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 16: "Literature for Children" Workshop Notes, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Lebanon Valley College Alumni Award Speech, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Leadership Doctoral Seminar Research, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence with David Pearson, Dean, College of Education, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 20: "General Music in the Middle School" Curriculum, 1995Add to your cart.
Folder 21: "The Inaccurate or Out-of-Tune Singer" Workshop Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: "Learning in Music" Workshop Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Course for Non-Music Majors Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Silver Summer Junior High School Workshop Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: "What is so General about Music?" Workshop Outline, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Elementary School Instruction Handouts, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Integrated Arts Workshop Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Music 240 Course Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: "On Being a Music Educator" Speech, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: "A Pragmatic View of the General Music Curriculum" Speech, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: "Generalized Aural Processing" Workshop Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: "Why a Joint Convention?" Nebraska Presentation, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 33: "Legislation in the Arts" Speech, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 34: Missouri Music Edcators Conference 50th Anniversary Keynote Speech Outline, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 35: "Who say we ain't got class" Speech, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: Maine Music Educators Association Speech Outline, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 2: Research and Publications, 1964-1993Add to your cart.
Consists of Hoffman's research notes, article drafts and published articles, presentations later published, and original manuscripts of choral music arrangements. Of note is the "Teacher Competence and the Balanced Music Curriculum" paper and notes  which was later published in the Words of Note series by MENC.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 37: SATB Choral Arrangements, 1964-1990Add to your cart.
Dixieland Quodlibet, Wayfaring Stranger, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Hootenanny, Idea for Loredo, and Latin American Holiday.
Folder 38: "The Student Performer," The South Dakota Musician, Vol. 5, No. 1 Fall 1970, 1970Add to your cart.
Folder 39: "Individualized Instruction" Research, 1971-1976Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Music Listening Research, 1974-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 41: "Music: The Passionate Commitment" and "Music Education: Will it Last into the 21st Century?", 1977 and 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 42: "The Young Choir: a Special Breed" Article Notes and Correspondence, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 43: "Music Education and Lifelong Learning" Articles and Related Speeches, 1979-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 44: Lifelong Learning Research and Correspondence, ca. 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 45: "Reflections on Ravel's Bolero and other class acts" Presentation and MENC President Article, 1980-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 46: "The Times they are a changing" California Music Educator News, May-June 1982 Series II, 1982Add to your cart.
Folder 47: SATB Choral Arrangements, 1984-1986Add to your cart.
He's Gone Away, and Kling.
Folder 48: "Teacher Competence and the Balanced Music Curriculum" Research, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 49: Teacher Training Requirements Research, 1985-1988Add to your cart.
Folder 50: Lifelong Learning and Pursuit of Learning After Retirement (POLAR) Research, 1986-1988Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Undergraduate General Education Curriculum Research, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 52: "Trends: Music," Educational Leadership, Vol. 47 No. 4 Dec 1989/Jan 1990 p. 88, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 53: "Far East Fantasy" Choral Arrangement (SATB and Piano), 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 54: "MENC: Policy, Advocacy and Enlightened Self-Interest" Presentation, 1990-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 55: Partnerships in the Arts Research, 1992-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 56: Lawson-Gould Correspondence, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 57: "Relevancy in Music Education" Article Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 58: "It's the Day of the Eclectic Musician-Educator" Article, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 59: "Music for 10-14 Year Olds" Presentation Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 60: Music in Education "Why" Article Draft, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 3: Hoffman's Undergraduate and Graduate School Student Notes and Papers, 1948 and 1969-1973Add to your cart.
Comprised of notes, research and papers which were produced by Hoffman while an undergraduate at Lebanon Valley College and graduate student at Northwestern University.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 61: "The Necessity for Revitalizing Teaching Curricula for the Music Educators of Tomorrow" paper, 1948Add to your cart.
Folder 62: Music in Education research, 1969Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Northwestern University and University of Illinois notes and assignments (1 of 2), 1970-1973Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Northwestern University and University of Illinois notes and assignments (2 of 2), 1970-1973Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Choral Music for Young Singers - Northwestern Research, 1972Add to your cart.

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Instructional Papers and Professional Presentations, 1957-1995],
[Series 2: Research and Publications, 1964-1993],
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