Amy Beegle Dr. Beegle has been teaching music to children in school settings for twelve years. She completed her BME from the University of New Mexico, her MA at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and her PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied music education and performance with musicians from around the world in ethnomusicology (Turkish singing, Philippine Kulintang, Afro-Peruvian music and dance, and Zimbabwean mbira). Her research interests include children's musical creativity, the pedagogy of world music traditions, American music education during wartime, and Orff Schulwerk philosophy and history. She has presented nationally and internationally on these topics, and her publications include articles in the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, The Music Educators Journal, the Orff Echo, and the Kodaly Envoy. Dr. Beegle is currently conducting research on Afro-Peruvian music and Orff Schulwerk teacher training. Dr. Beegle plans to teach Orff Level I at the University of Oregon during the summer of 2010, and also to take PLU students to Peru in J-term, 2011. |
PUBLICATIONS
Beegle, A. (Oct., 2010) A classroom-based study of small-group planned improvisation with fifth grade children Journal of Research in Music Education 58 (3), 219-239. Campbell, P., Connell, C. & Beegle A. (Fall,2007) Adolescents' Expressed Meanings of Music in and out of School. Journal of Research in Music Education 55(3). Beegle, A. (Summer, 2005) The Effect of Temporal versus Melodic Cues on Children's Recall of Familiar Songs, Kodaly Envoy, 31. Beegle, A. (2005). Multiculturalism and world music in AOSA as reflected in the The Orff Echo, 1968-2002. The Orff Echo 37 (4), 18-23. Beegle, A. (2004) American Music Education 1941-1946: Meeting Needs and Making Adjustments During World War II. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 26(1). Hawkins, P. & Beegle, A. (2003). The national standards and
Medieval music in middle school choral and general music. Music
Educators Journal, 89 (3), 41-45, 59. Campbell, P. S. & Beegle, A. (2003). Middle Eastern Campbell, P.S. & Beegle, A. (Spring, 2002). Teaching Music to Children in Times of Crisis. Orff Echo, 34.
Recent Professional Presentations
November,
2010 “Orff
Process in Diverse Classrooms” Presentation at the 2010 American Orff-Schulwerk
Association National Convention
May,
2009 Mountain Lake Colloquium for General Music
Professors: "The Nutritional
Nurturing of the Pre-teaching Music Educator at Pacific Lutheran University." Mountain
Lake, VA March, 2008 Poster presentation at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education International
Conference: Small Group March, 2008 Invited presenter at the Seattle International Children's Festival Education Session: Middle Eastern Music. Seattle, WA November, 2007 Research
Interest Group Session presentation with Isabel Barbara O'Hagin and Sheila Woodward: "The Art of November, 2006 "Children at Work in Their Musical Expression: A Classroom-Based Study of Group Improvisation Presentation at the 2006 American Orff Schulwerk Association National Convention Omaha, Nebraska July, 2006 Teaching and Learning Kulintang at an American University Presentation at the 27th International Society for Music Education World Conference. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
April, 2006 "Musical
Values of American Adolescents February, 2006 "Children at Work in Their Creative Musical Expression: A Classroom-Based Study of Small Group Improvisation" research poster at the Washington Music Educators Association Conference. Yakima, WA
November, 2005 "A Tale of Two Worlds of Music Teaching/Transmission." Presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Cultural Diversity in Music Education. Brisbane, Australia
July, 2005 Invited panelist, “Patriotism and the Music Curriculum: An International Panel" at the Asian Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research. Seattle, Washington April, 2005 Examination of Orff-Trained Teachers' Use of Improvisation with Elementary School Children. Presentation at the SEMPRE Conference on Musical Creativity in Culture and Mind. Cambridge, England
February, 2005 "The Effect of Temporal Versus Melodic Cues on
Children's Recall
of Familiar Songs." Research poster. Washington
Music Educators Conference. Bellevue,
WA |