Finding Aid for Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Papers, 1949-2002 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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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: Early Childhood Education, Faculty Papers, Music, School 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Consists of unpublished drafts of research articles, research notes, lecture and book chapters; course syllabi and lecture notes for courses taught both at the University of Illinois and other colleges and universities; programs for conferences and symposia in which Zimmerman participated; unpublished drafts of papers by other authors Zimmerman consulted in her research; and the administrative records from the University of Illinois School of Music and the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

Early Childhood Education
Faculty Papers
Music, School of

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:

[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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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