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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,
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.
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Mary E. Hoffman Papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.
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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.
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.
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.
Dixieland Quodlibet, Wayfaring Stranger, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Hootenanny, Idea for Loredo, and Latin American Holiday.
He's Gone Away, and Kling.
Comprised of notes, research and papers which were produced by Hoffman while an undergraduate at Lebanon Valley College and graduate student at Northwestern University.