Louise Goss receives MTNA Achievement Award.Louise Goss n. 1. Gorse. was honored with the 2005 MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) Achievement Award at the Awards Brunch during the National Conference in Seattle. Goss is an internationally recognized teacher lecturer, author and editor She is chair of the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and co-founder of The New School for Music Study Goss also is co-author ant editor of the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Goss has conducted work-snobs, seminars and study courses at colleges and universities nationwide, and has appeared as lecturer, clinician and consultant in the U.S. and abroad. She has pioneered the production of video teaching rapes, which are used extensively in college and university piano pedagogy departments across the country. From 1983-2000 Goss served as adjunct associate professor of piano pedagogy at Westminster Choir College -- Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Westminster has a choral emphasis that educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for music leadership careers in churches, schools, of Rider University Rider University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian university located chiefly in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in Mercer County. It consists of four academic units - the College of Business Administration, the College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences, the College of . Born in Kalamazoo, Michiqan, Goss earned a B.A. degree from Kalamazoo College, where she was a piano student of Frances Clark and a member of Clark's first four-year degree program in piano pedagogy She carried a triple major--music, English and philosophy--and graduated magna cum laude with the highest four-year standing in the college. Goss earned an M.A. degree with high honors in music literature and completed doctoral studies in musicology musicology, systematized study of music and musical style, particularly in the realm of historical research. The scholarly study of music of different historical periods was not practiced until the 18th cent., and few published efforts were rigorously researched. at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . Goss served as instructor in music literature and history at the university before becoming general editor of the developing piano series, the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. In 1955, she and Clark were appointed directors of the piano and piano pedagogy programs at Westminster Choir College, and together established the New School for Music Study in 1960. That same year they founded the New Jersey Music Teachers Association. In 1998, Kalamazoo College awarded Goss an honorary doctorate in music for her contributions to the field of piano pedagogy and music education. And in 2001, she received the same honor from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. The MTNA Achievement Award is given annually to individuals who have shown significant and lasting contributions to music and music teaching in America. |
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