Music Education Outreach Activities

The music education degree programs at the University of Arizona provide a strong foundation for future and continuing teachers. Our graduates secure positions at the finest elementary, secondary, and collegiate level institutions in the country.

Students at all levels in the music education program have the opportunity to teach in a variety of settings including the UA String Project, “Musical Play at the UA” preschool program, the Outreach Band, the Outreach Choir, and the University of Arizona School of Music Lab School in conjunction with Tucson Unified Schools.

Outreach Choir

The University of Arizona introduces the Outreach Choir, a premier auditioned group composed of Tucson area high school students. The group meets Monday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the UA School of Music to rehearse exceptional choral literature for presentation in local area performances. The ensemble is comprised of students from a number of varying educational backgrounds, including home-schooled students. The cost is $40.00 for the semester, which provides scores for each student to keep as well as incredible opportunities for making great music and meeting other motivated musicians.

• Contact: Lynnel J Jenkins
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The Outreach Honor Band was formed in the fall of 1993. The group services public and private school music programs in the extended Tucson metropolitan area. Membership is open to advanced instrumental and percussion students in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades.

See the UA Outreach Band Website for further information

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The mission of the UA String Project is to provide Music Education undergraduate and graduate students the experience of real classroom teaching. While teachers gain experience, students in the Tucson community are able to study music with future professionals. The String Project is dedicated to the promotion of a partnership between teaching and learning in music, creating an outreach program designed to inspire and foster creativity among young musicians and cultivate a learning environment to enable the development of future string teachers.

See the UA String Project Web site for further information

• Contact: Dr. Donald Hamann
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Musical Play

“Musical Play at the UA” is designed to assist children ages two to five and their parents in building a repertoire of songs and activities for everyday living. Developmentally appropriate songs, materials, and activities include a wide variety of topics, presentations, and interactions. Parents and children sing, move, and play through fingerplays, stories, lullabies, movement games, active listening, and instruments.

See the “Musical Play at the UA” website for further information:

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Desert Skies Symposium

To provide a forum in which researchers can share the results of their investigations with K-16 teachers. This biennial event, (held in February of odd numbered years) is attended by K-12 teachers as well as professors from all over the United States and several other countries.

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Journal of String Research

The Journal of String Research is published by the Institute for Innovation in String Music Teaching in the School of Music at the University of Arizona in recognition of the importance of string research in guiding string practice. The Journal of String Research welcomes studies dealing with investigations of a philosophical, historical, or scientific nature that contribute to the understanding of the teaching and learning of strings.

• Contact: Dr. Donald L. Hamann, Editor
  Journal of String Research
  Box 210004
  School of Music
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona 85721-0004
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The Marguerite Vivian Hood Collection

Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, concert programs, newspaper clippings, journal articles, teacher education certification materials, and additional personal materials from the music educator, Marguerite Vivian Hood (1903-1992). Through her long, productive career, Hood contributed to the music education field as a public school teacher and supervisor, state music supervisor, university professor, author, conductor, speaker, clinician, and past-MENC president (1950-52).

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