Music Education Department

Mary Goetze

Chair of the General Studies Department

Mary Goetze holds a Ph. D from the University of Colorado (1985), where her dissertation won the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Council of Research in Music Education.  She chairs the Music in General Studies department and conducts the International Vocal Ensemble, a School of Music chorus specializing in vocal music from the world's cultural traditions. Utilizing technology in the ensemble led to the development of innovative approaches that she shares in presentations at choral and music education conferences. She and Jay Fern developed Global Voices in Song, a series of interative CD-Roms for transmitting music from diverse sources.  She founded the University Children's Choir and directed it until 1995. She is recognized internationally for her work with children's choirs and is active as composer, clinician and guest conductor. Other publications include numerous arrangements and compositions for treble voices, and Share the Music, a K-6 series book used widely throughout the US.  She is co-chair of the bi-annual Mountain Lake Colloquium for Teachers of Music Methods and a member of the Mountain Lake Reader editorial board.
 

Current Courses:

Publications:

"Challenges of Performing Diverse Cultural Music," Music Educators Journal, July, 2000.

"The Challenges of Performing Music of the World,"  In Performing with Understanding, ed. B. Reimer, (Reston, Virginia:  MENC, 2000), pp. 155-169.

Share the Music, a music series for grades K-6, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company (includes pupils' and teachers' editions for 7 grades, including sets of compact disc recordings to go with each grade and numerous ancillaries), published 1995, revised 2000.

"A Dream Come True" with Nancy Boone, Mountain Lake Reader, May, 1999.

"Footnotes" with Nancy Boone, Mountain Lake Reader, May 1999.

Choral Music for Children, contributor, ed. Doreen Rao, (Reston, Virginia:  MENC, 1990).

"Recent Research on Singing in the General Music Classroom," with Nancy Cooper and Carol Brown, Council for Research in Music Education, Spring 1990.

"A Comparison on the Effect of Pitch Accuracy of Group and Individual Singing in Young Children,"  Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, Winter, 1989.

"Noted Educators Question a Common Practice," Choristers Guild Letters, March, 1989.

"Writing and Arranging for Children," Choral Journal, March,1989.

"Wanted: Children to Sing and to Learn," Music Educators Journal, December, 1988; reprinted in The Best of Music Educators Journal, MENC, 1999.

"Labeling Laws Applied to Music Education,"  Indiana Music Educator, March, 1979; reprinted by Missouri Music Educator, 1983.

 "Children's Singing Voices: Toward Vocal Fitness," The Orff Echo, 15 (4) Summer, 1983. 

"Children's Singing Voices,"  Kodály Envoy,  8 (4), Spring, 1981.  Also published in Midwest Kodály Newsletter, Fall 1980, Indiana Musicator, January, 1981, Missouri Music Educator, Fall, 1982.
 

Commissioned Choral Music:

"They Have No Song" for the Indiana University Children's Choir. Completed December, 2000; Premiered, March, 2001.  Publication Pending

"Heartland Portrait" for the Des Moines Children's Festival's Heartland Festival, Memorial
Day 2000

"Sawgrass Songs" for the Florida Elementary Music Educators Honor Choir, 1999 (for premiere in January, 2000). Published by Alliance Music Publishers

"Angel Song" for the Ashland (Ohio) Symphony Chorus, 1999 (premiere January, 2000). 
Published by Alliance Music Publishers

"Some Time" for the Indiana Music Educators Middle School Honor Choir, January, 1999 (in press, Oxford University Press)

"Hark to the Sound" for St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Summer 1996.  Published by Morningstar Press

"Faldang" for the West Virginia Music Educators Association.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Instructions" for Oberlin Choristers, Oberlin, Ohio, premiered in Oberlin, November 19, 1995.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Heartland" for Lafayette Children's Choir, premiered June 1995.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Under My Command" for Texas Choral Directors Association, premiered in San Antonio, July, 1994.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"When Children Sing" for Young Naperville Singers, premiered May, 1994 in Naperville, Illinois.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Sing as the Prairie" for Nebraska Choral Directors Association, premiered October, 1992.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"There is Ever a Song" for Logansport Children's Choir, premiered May, 1989.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Circles" for Indiana Music Educators Association, Circle the State with Song, premiered January, 1990, Indianapolis.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral
Series

"A Song of Songs" for 1990 Northwest California American Choral Directors' Women's Choral Festival, premiered April 4, 1990, Reno, Nevada.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Christmas Bells" for Wunderlich Advanced Girls' Choir, Houston, Texas, premiered February 10, 1990, San Antonio, Texas.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in Mary Goetze
Choral Series

"Glory to God" for Worthington United Methodist Church, Worthington, OH, premiered November 14, 1989.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series

"Fire" for the Indianapolis Children's Choir, premiered April,1988 at the MENC National Convention, Indianapolis, IN.  Published by Boosey & Hawkes in Mary Goetze Choral
Series
 

Published Music:

Original Compositions:

Other Compositions and Arrangements in Mary Goetze Choral Series (Boosey& Hawkes):

Edited Octavos