Date of birth: 1903: March 14, 1903, Drayton, North Dakota
Died: 1992: February 22, 1992, Pomona, California
Education: 1923 - BA, Jamestown College, North Dakota
1941 - Masters in Music, University of Southern California
1947 - Honorary Doctorate, Jamestown College, North Dakota
Work: 1923-1930 - taught public school in Havre and Bozeman, Montana
1930 - appointed Montana’s second state supervisor of music
1942 - professor of music education, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
1942 - appointed chair, music department, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Public Schools
1972 - retired from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Specialty areas: Music education
Publications:
Hood, Marguerite V. “Can Festivals take the Place of Contests?” Music Educators
Journal. (October 1936): 27-28.
Hood, Marguerite V., and E.J. Schultz. Learning Music Through Rhythm. Boston: Ginn
& Co., 1949.
Hood, Marguerite V. “The Log Schoolhouse Goes Musical.” Music Educators Journal.
(March 1932): 30-31.
-----. “Music in American Education – Our Heritage Demands Action, Not Defense.”
Music Educators Journal. (February-March 1952): 17-19.
-----. “Non-Performance Music Classes in Secondary Schools.” Music Educators
Journal. (May 1967): 75-77, 79.
-----. “Our Changing School Music Programs.” Music Educators Journal. (February-
March 1962): 34-38.
-----. “Planning the Grade - Music Program in Small Towns.” Music Educators Journal.
(October 1938): 58-59.
-----. “Practical Listening Lessons – Are They Possible?” Music Educators Journal.
(May 1931): 21-22, 56, 58.
-----. “Teaching Music in a One-Room Rural School” Music Educators Journal.
(February 1935): 20-21.
-----. Teaching Rhythm and Using Classroom Instruments. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1970.
-----, Glenn Gildersleeve and Helen S. Leavitt. Singing Days: The World of Music.
Boston: Ginn & Co, 1936.
Hood, Marguerite V., et al. On Wings Of Song The World of Music. Boston: Ginn & Co,
1949.
Hood, Marguerite V. The World of Music. Boston: Ginn & Co, 1937.
-----. “Yearbook Indigestion?” Music Educators Journal. (December 1938): 27-28.
Professional accomplishments:
1930 - appointed Montana’s second state supervisor of music
1942-58 - conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra at the University Musical Society's
Annual May Festival
1945-47 - president of the North Central Division of MENC
1947 - Honorary Doctorate, Jamestown College, North Dakota
1949 - served as Chair of the Editorial Board of the Music Educators Journal until her
presidency
1950-52 - President of the MENC
1972 – Award of Merit, Michigan Music Educators Association
1974 - was made an honorary member of ISME
1986 - elected to the MENC Hall of Fame
1987 – Special 50th Anniversary Award, Montana Music Educators Association
Biography:
Marguerite Vivian Hood (1903-1992) was a prominent music educator, a leading figure nationally and internationally, and a dedicated teacher throughout her career. Hood began her service to the MENC as President of the North Central Division (1945-47). In 1949 she became Chair of the Editorial Board of the Music Educators Journal, and according to Mark and Gary, was the only woman ever to chair the board. After presiding over nine issues, she was elected president of the MENC for the 1950-52 biennium. Following her presidency, Hood served as chairman of the MENC commission on accreditation. In 1953 she began her association with ISME, attending the first meeting in Brussels, and all the subsequent meetings in Warsaw. Hood was instrumental in establishing the Journal of Research in Music Education, wrote a number of articles for the journal, was author and contributing editor to a number of music textbooks for children, and was a leader in music education on various fronts. Marguerite Hood died on February 21, 1992, at Mount San Antonio Gardens, in Pomona, California.
Quotes:
From a 1952 article entitled “Music in American Education – Our Heritage Demands Action, Not Defense,” Music Educators Journal:
Fortunately, the morale of music educators is generally good. We like our work, we see endless possibilities for good results from it, and we are so busy trying to do it well that we have little time to be distracted by petty attacks. One wonderful thing about music education is that, as a profession, instead o worrying about criticisms, it takes a refreshing enjoyment from self-evaluation, and constantly improves itself. …
We are diametrically opposed to the ridiculous premise which has sometimes existed that music educators need not be real and skillful musicians. No one has to sell us on the necessity for fine musicianship, although it is often difficult to bring attention to the fact that courses that were originally planned for the training of skilled concert performers or composers sometimes waste many precious college hours without achieving much in the way of specialized technical skills needed by music educators. We even face the amazing idea that second best in teachers and in practice facilities will suffice to make good musicians of music education students, but not of anyone else![1]
We cry for professional recognition, but sometimes forget that such recognition must be preceded by active participation in many affairs – civic, musical and educations – not just as directors of performing organizations, but as interested, intelligent participants in the planning and working out of general activities of the groups.[2]
Music education has nothing to fear but itself and its own failure to be part of the world around it – and its failure to assert itself as a profession regularly and consistently, not just when its own rights and privileges are attacked. No heritage as great as ours can be maintained by good teaching only, or even by a fine defense. The responsibility is ours for constructive action, with music educators learning to contribute their part to leadership not only in this, our won field, but also in all related fields that affect us, in both local and widespread situations.[3]
Sources Used:
Arneson, Arne Jon. The Music Educators Journal Cumulative Index 1914-1987. Stevens
Point, Wisconsin: Index House, 1987.
Hood, Marguerite V. “Music in American Education – Our Heritage Demands Action,
Not Defense.” Music Educators Journal. (February-March 1952): 17-19.
Michigan Music Educators Association Homepage.
http://www.geocities.com/michmea/awards.htm.
Montana Music Educators Association Homepage.
http://www.mtmusiced.org/index.html.
University of Maryland Libraries. Marguerite Hood Papers.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/SCPA/MENC/hood.html.
Mark, Michael L., Charles L. Gary. A History of Music Education. Reston, VA: The
National Association for Music Education, 1999.
For more information, consult the following sources:
University of Maryland Libraries. Marguerite Hood Papers.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/SCPA/MENC/hood.html.
Mark, Michael L., Charles L. Gary. A History of Music Education. Reston, VA: The
National Association for Music Education, 1999.
--Submitted by Diana Hollinger, December 2002