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By Noah Lenstra
Collection Overview
Title: Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Papers, 1949-2002
ID: 12/5/47
Primary Creator: Zimmerman, Marilyn Pflederer (1929-1995)
Extent: 3.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: Organized into four series: Series 1. Research and Writing Drafts and Notes, Series 2. Administrative, Personal and Research Correspondence; Series 3. Course Syllabi and Lesson Plans; Series 4. Faculty Oversight Committee to the Zimmerman Foundation Records; and Series 5. Papers by Other Authors. Each series is arranged chronologically at the folder-level by the earliest date appearing in each folder. Duplicates removed from papers.
Date Acquired: 01/00/2010
Subjects: Class Notes, Classroom Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Faculty, Faculty Papers, Music, School of, Music Educators National Conference, Music instruction, Music teachers, Music teachers - Training of
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of unpublished drafts of research articles, research notes, lecture and book chapters; course syllabi and lecture notes for courses taught both at the University of Illinois and other colleges and universities; programs for conferences and symposia in which Zimmerman participated; unpublished drafts of papers by other authors Zimmerman consulted in her research; and the administrative records from the University of Illinois School of Music and the Center for Music Education Research documenting the career of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman as she established herself as an educator, researcher and administrator. Of particular interest are the notes and data compiled during Zimmerman's 1968 research project (with Lee Sechrest), "How Children Conceptually Organize Musical Sounds."
Biographical Note
Music educator and researcher Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman was born in Peoria, Illinois. She graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1951, with a Bachelor of Music degree and majors in Piano and Music Education. She earned a Master's of Science degree in 1955 and a Doctor of Education degree in 1963, both from the University of Illinois, and both in Music Education.
Her teaching career began with three years of elementary and junior high school general music instruction in Illinois. She was an instructor at Illinois Wesleyan from 1955-1956. She then served for three years on the music education faculty of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, before returning to the University of Illinois as an instructor from 1959 to 1964. From 1964 to 1968 she served as associate professor at Northwestern University. On December 16, 1967, she married Vernon Zimmerman and returned to the University of Illinois for three years as visiting associate professor from 1968 to 1971. She also served as visiting associate professor at Illinois State University, The College-Conservatory of Cincinnati, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Victoria. She served as director of the Music Program at Temple University in 1978-1979 and was the Distinguished Flora Stone Mather visiting professor at Case Western University in 1980-1981. In 1987, she returned to the University of Illinois School of Music as Professor of Music Education, a position she held until 1993.
Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman's research focused on music education, with emphases in early childhood education and the study of cognitive influences on the musical learning of children. In 1968 she conducted, with Lee Sechrest, an H.E.W. Research Project entitled "How Children Conceptually Organize Musical Sounds." She served as editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and on the editorial review board of The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. During her research career she published more than fifty articles in various journals in her field. She also participated regularly in the International Society for Music Education. Many of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman's writings are available in the book On musicality and milestones : selected writings of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman : with contributions from the profession edited by Mark Robin Campbell and published by the University of Illinois School of Music in 2002.
In 1991 Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman and her husband established the Vernon and Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Foundation, which provided funds for doctoral fellowships, conferences and other scholarships relating to early childhood education and cognitive learning in early music education. The Foundation remains active as of February 2010.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Access Restrictions:
No restrictions.
Acquisition Source:
School of Music Annex
Acquisition Method:
Donation
Related Materials:
Vernon K. Zimmerman Papers, 1945-1996, 09/01/022 For more information please see http://www.library.uiuc.edu/archives/uasfa/0901022.pdf.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Research and Writing, Drafts and Notes, 1952-1992],
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Series 2: Administrative, Personal and Research Correspondence, 1949-1992],
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Series 3: Course Syllabi and Lesson Plans, 1970-1991],
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Series 4: Faculty Oversight Committee to the Zimmerman Foundation Records, 1995-2001],
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Series 5: Unpublished drafts by other authors, 1961-1990],
[All]
- Series 1: Research and Writing, Drafts and Notes, 1952-1992
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Contemporary Music course notes and papers, ca. 1952
- Folder 2: Student note books, ca. 1960
- Folder 3: Student papers on aesthetic learning, 1960
- Folder 4: Jean Piaget, doctoral paper, ED. 415, undated
- Folder 5: The Responses of Children to Musical Tasks Embodying Piaget's Principle of Conservation, draft, 1963
- Folder 6: Thesis, final version, 1963
- Folder 7: Research notes on first experiment, revised instruction, completed while at Northwestern University, ca. 1965
- Folder 8: Lecture notes and scripts, 1966-1969
- Folder 9: Experient number two, Verbal Responses of subjects and some cards, 1966-1976 (mostly 1968)
- Folder 10: Conservation of Tonal Pattern reprints and revised notes, 1967-1981
- Folder 11: How Children Conceptualize - copies and ERIC report resume, 1968
- Folder 12: What Research Says About the Musical Characteristics of Children, draft and correspondence, 1969
- Folder 13: Contrasting Conceptions of Mind, undated
- Folder 14: Conference/symposium programs, 1971-1991
- Folder 15: Curriculum vitae (photocopy), 1972
- Folder 16: The Open Classroom an Principles of Planning for the Music Curriculum, draft and related correspondence, undated
- Folder 17: Illinois Elementary Music Guide pamphlet, ca. 1973
- Folder 18: Christchurch Teacher's College International Curriculum workshop, Development of General Music in Forms 1 to 4, includes paper draft Theory for the Pre-Development of a Series of Musical Tasks for Pre-School Through the Primary Grades, 1974/1984
- Folder 19: University of Hawaii Lectures - notes and flyer, 1974
- Folder 20: ISME Fourth research seminar, New Zealand, Research in Music Education with Very Young Children, 1974
- Folder 21: Music and Man manuscripts, The Arts, Affluence and Accountability/Beaux-Arts, Opulence and Responsabilite (in English/French), 1974
- Folder 22: Drafts of published articles/book reviews, ca. 1975-1985
- Folder 23: PMEA, Temple Alumni Lecture, Music Education, 1979
- Folder 24: MENC, Ann Arbor, Applications of Psychology to Teaching and Learning Music Symposium: "Response to Howard Gardner's Paper" and "Child Development and Music Education", August 1, 1979
- Folder 25: University of Western Ontario, Music in Childhood, From Research to the Classroom/Ontario Music Educators Conference, Musical Development in Children, 1979/1980
- Folder 26: Bowling Green Research Symposium, Developmental Research and the Music Curriculum - It is Easy to Learn Early, May 30, 1980
- Folder 27: Bloomington, Indiana, OAKE, Developmental Sequence and Kodaly Methodology, Feb. 29 to March 2, 1980
- Folder 28: UIUC Symposium on Music Education, Developmental Processes in Music Learning, undated
- Folder 29: University of North Carolina, presentations of Zimmerman's work for seminar, Developmental Processes in Music Education, 1982
- Folder 30: CIC Conference on Music Education, UIUC, 1983
- Folder 31: Activities Report, 1983-1991
- Folder 32: CRME article draft, Music Development in Middle Childhood: A Summary of Selected Research Studies, 1984
- Folder 33: ISME Publications, 1986
- Folder 34: MENC SRIG and Life-long learning, 1987-1991
- Folder 35: Chicago, National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, An Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography of Learning Theory for Teachers of Piano and Piano Pedagogy, October 21, 1988
- Folder 36: Basic Concepts in Music Education, II, manuscript, Psychological Theory and Music Learning, July 1989
- Folder 37: Psychological Theory and Music Learning, July 1989
- Folder 38: Indiana Music Educators Association State Convention, What's Happening in Research in Early Childhood Music, 1991
- Folder 39: Boston University Lecture, Developmental Sequences and the Music Curriculum, February 22, 1991
- Folder 40: Handbook for Research in Music Teaching and Learning, Developmental Theories of Music Learning, 1991
- Folder 41: MENC, New Orleans, An Overview of Developmental Research in Music, 1992
- Folder 42: Gedenkschrift Sigrid Abel-Struth, Developmental Sequences in Music Learning and the Music Curriculum, 1992
- Box 3
- Folder 39: On Musicality and Milestones: Selected Writings of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman, edited by Mark Robin Campbell, 2002
- Series 2: Administrative, Personal and Research Correspondence, 1949-1992
- Box 1
- Folder 43: Diplomas and Awards, 1949-1963
- Folder 44: Research correspondence, 1962-1991
- Folder 45: Letters of copyright release for USOE Project, 1967-1969
- Folder 46: Musical Characteristics of Children correspondence, 1969-1971
- Box 2
- Folder 1: ISME correspondence, 1970-1984
- Folder 2: ISU appointment, 1971-1976
- Folder 3: CRME correspondence, 1973-1987
- Folder 4: Correspondence file, 1974-1991
- Folder 5: Mary Serafine correspondence, 1974-1978
- Folder 6: UI School of Music administrative records, Salary, hiring, 1976-1991
- Folder 7: Pennsylvania State University correspondence and workshop notes, 1978-1981
- Folder 8: Correspondence, 1979-1992
- Folder 9: Personal correspondence/Thank-You notes, ca. 1980s-1990s
- Folder 10: Student recommendations, 1986-1992
- Folder 11: Bruhn correspondence, 1984
- Folder 12: Correspondence, 1985-1994
- Folder 13: Departmental meeting notes, 1989-1990
- Folder 14: CRME correspondence, 1989-1991
- Folder 15: CRME Council Advisory Committee correspondence, 1989
- Folder 16: CRME - Cindy's materials, 1989
- Folder 17: Correspondence with Hargreaves on book chapter, 1989-1990
- Folder 18: CRME, Suggestions from CAC members, 1989
- Folder 19: CRME correspondence, 1989-1990
- Folder 20: CRME, Symposium on Research in External Education correspondence, 1989
- Folder 21: CRME, Richard Colwell correspondence, 1989
- Folder 22: CRME, Call for Papers, 1990-1991
- Folder 23: CRME financial records, 1990-1991
- Folder 24: Dissertations in progress, 1990
- Folder 25: MENC, Washington meeting, 1990
- Folder 26: CRME, Ensely-Kjillard materials, 1991
- Folder 27: CRME: Bulletin #112 correspondence, undated
- Folder 28: CAC response to Policy concerning dissertation articles, 1991
- Folder 29: CRME correspondence, 1992
- Folder 30: CRME, CAC, 1992
- Series 3: Course Syllabi and Lesson Plans, 1970-1991
- Box 2
- Folder 31: MUSIC 442/242, 1970
- Folder 32: Music History course notes, 1972
- Folder 33: Psychology of Music, 1973
- Folder 34: Evaluation and Measurement Seminar, 1976-1977
- Folder 35: Seminar in Music Education, Philosophical Foundations of Music Education, 1978
- Folder 36: Contemporary Music Education, 1978
- Folder 37: MUSIC 241/444, Elementary Music Methods, 1978-1989
- Folder 38: MUSIC 604: Music in Higher Education, Spring 1979
- Folder 39: Music Intelligence notes, ca. 1980
- Folder 40: Listening lesson plans, Fall 1981
- Folder 41: Case Western Reserve University, Seminar in Arts and Human Development, 1981
- Folder 42: MUSIC 591B: The Arts and Human Development, Spring 1981
- Folder 43: Psychological Foundations, 1983
- Box 3
- Folder 1: MUSIC 349: Music in Early Childhood, 1986
- Folder 2: Music in Special Education bibliography, ca. 1987
- Folder 3: Schema lecture notes, ca. 1988
- Folder 4: Music listening lessons, 1988
- Folder 5: MUSIC 441-A: Foundations/Principles of Music Education, 1988-1991
- Folder 6: MUSIC 140A - Introduction to Musical Education, 1988
- Folder 7: MUSIC 443: Administration and Supervision of Music Education, 1988
- Folder 8: MUSIC 349: Childhood Music, 1988
- Folder 9: Research in Music Education seminar, 1989-1991
- Folder 10: MUSIC 444/346: General Music programs in Elementary Schools, 1989
- Folder 11: MUSIC 444 and 421-A: Music for Elementary Teachers, 1989
- Folder 12: MUSIC 441: Foundations of Music Education II, 1990
- Folder 13: Musical Intelligence, ca. 1990
- Folder 14: Early Childhood Music Education readings/course notes, 1991
- Folder 15: General course/lecture notes, ca. 1970-1991
- Folder 16: Covers for dissertations with Zimmerman as committee member, undated
- Series 4: Faculty Oversight Committee to the Zimmerman Foundation Records, 1995-2001
- Box 3
- Folder 17: Photographs, ca. 1980s/1990s
- Folder 18: Funeral announcements and correspondence, 1992-1995
- Folder 19: Foundation, original correspondence and establishing documents, 1997-1998
- Folder 20: Correspondence, Spring 1997
- Folder 21: Financial accounts, 1997-1998
- Folder 22: Correspondence, 1997-1999
- Folder 23: Personal library report, 1998
- Folder 24: Papers from Cognitive Processes of Children Engaged in Musical Activity, Zimmerman-foundation sponsored conference, 1999
- Folder 25: Zimmerman conference correspondence, 1999
- Folder 26: Correspondence, 2000-2001
- Series 5: Unpublished drafts by other authors, 1961-1990
- Box 3
- Folder 27: Pirtle/Welsbacher Theses, 1961/1970
- Folder 28: Papers by other authors, ca. 1970s-1990s
- Folder 29: B. Krebs Master's thesis, 1976
- Folder 30: Hildebrant thesis, 1978
- Folder 31: Colwell paper, ca. 1980s
- Folder 32: Bibliography by Zimmerman student, ca. 1980s
- Folder 33: Piaget clippings, ca. 1980s
- Folder 34: Charles Leonhard paper, 1984
- Folder 35: IMEA papers, 1988
- Folder 36: Andress syllabus, 1989
- Folder 37: Early Childhood research articles, various authors, ca. 1990
- Folder 38: Lawton and Johnson paper, 1990
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Research and Writing, Drafts and Notes, 1952-1992],
[
Series 2: Administrative, Personal and Research Correspondence, 1949-1992],
[
Series 3: Course Syllabi and Lesson Plans, 1970-1991],
[
Series 4: Faculty Oversight Committee to the Zimmerman Foundation Records, 1995-2001],
[
Series 5: Unpublished drafts by other authors, 1961-1990],
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