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Meet our Nationally Recognized Authorship Team


Spotlight on Music Authors
Music! Its Role...Authors
Voices in Concert Authors

Mary Goetze

Mary Goetze

Professor Emerita, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado; M.M. Indiana University, B.M. Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Honors and awards:
Named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Organization of American Kodály Educators, Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University

Prior publications:
Coordinating author, Share the Music,K-8 (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill); Co-Author, Educating Young Singers (A Resource for Teacher-Conductors); numerous published original compositions and vocal arrangements (Boosey & Hawkes). Global Voices Interactive (A Series of Interactive DVDs)

Role in Spotlight on Music:

  • Coordinated team of authors and writers who outlined, determined content goals, selected song and listening materials and wrote lessons for Student and Teacher Editions.
  • Contributed to overall planning to determine direction and goals for new program.
  • Collected and contributed performances for Global Voices feature, Grades 1-6.

Areas of interest/expertise:
Multicultural Music Education K-8 music, Orff process, Kodály approach, music teacher education, children’s choirs, vocal development