Mary Wennerstrom
Mary Wennerstrom is the 2006 winner of the The Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship.
Mary Wennerstrom is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Instruction at Indiana University. She served as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at IU for over twenty (20) years where she managed the appointment of close to four hundred (400) graduate teaching assistants and oversaw their rigorous training program. As director of a number of dissertations on theory teaching, she continues to be known and respected for her mentoring of the graduate students under her care, many of whom are now serving as theory instructors at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Graduate students who have worked under her supervision have spoken of her creativity, musicality, and sense of humor.
Professor Wennerstrom was the winner of IU's President's Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1993, and she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Society for Music Theory in 2002 for her role as founding treasurer. She was a leading faculty member at the first College Music Society Summer Institute on Music Theory Pedagogy in Boulder CO and has often presented papers at regional theory meetings.
Renowned as the editor of Anthology of Musical Structure and Style and Anthology of 20th Century Music, she has served the field of music theory pedagogy in numerous ways: as a member of the GRE and AP-Music test development committees, as chair of the SMT Professional Development Committee, as chair of the Editorial Review Board and subsequently editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Her areas of special interest include theory pedagogy, musical form, ad nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical structure. As one of the designers of the Integrative Program for Indiana's undergraduates, she helped to invent this innovative curriculum that combined literature and theory in chronological order. This five-term sequence was both creative and ambitious in its scope. Graduate students received invaluable training teaching sections under the guidance of master teachers, and she published an important article describing this curriculum. According to one of her students, Professor Wennerstrom's . . . "efforts have helped to shape the musicianship of many of the best performers today, as well as a whole generation of grateful theorists." We are indebted to her student, Robert Hatten, for contributing to this narrative.
Mary Wennerstrom is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Instruction at Indiana University. She served as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at IU for over twenty (20) years where she managed the appointment of close to four hundred (400) graduate teaching assistants and oversaw their rigorous training program. As director of a number of dissertations on theory teaching, she continues to be known and respected for her mentoring of the graduate students under her care, many of whom are now serving as theory instructors at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Graduate students who have worked under her supervision have spoken of her creativity, musicality, and sense of humor.
Professor Wennerstrom was the winner of IU's President's Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1993, and she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Society for Music Theory in 2002 for her role as founding treasurer. She was a leading faculty member at the first College Music Society Summer Institute on Music Theory Pedagogy in Boulder CO and has often presented papers at regional theory meetings.
Renowned as the editor of Anthology of Musical Structure and Style and Anthology of 20th Century Music, she has served the field of music theory pedagogy in numerous ways: as a member of the GRE and AP-Music test development committees, as chair of the SMT Professional Development Committee, as chair of the Editorial Review Board and subsequently editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Her areas of special interest include theory pedagogy, musical form, ad nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical structure. As one of the designers of the Integrative Program for Indiana's undergraduates, she helped to invent this innovative curriculum that combined literature and theory in chronological order. This five-term sequence was both creative and ambitious in its scope. Graduate students received invaluable training teaching sections under the guidance of master teachers, and she published an important article describing this curriculum. According to one of her students, Professor Wennerstrom's . . . "efforts have helped to shape the musicianship of many of the best performers today, as well as a whole generation of grateful theorists." We are indebted to her student, Robert Hatten, for contributing to this narrative.