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Randall Moore
(541) 346-3761M
rmoore@uoregon.edu

Randall Moore is a professor emeritus of music education and has been at the University of Oregon since 1974.

He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. from Florida State University.

Moore taught music in Salem and Ashland public schools in Oregon for five years as an elementary music specialist. He continued additional studies at the Pedagogische Hochschule in Oldenburg, Germany, and the Kodaly Musical Training Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

His performance experience has included positions in community orchestras and bands on saxophone, clarinet, and bassoon. He has also performed on recorder, ancient instruments, and voice with the Ashland Shakepearean Festival Musicians and the University of Oregon Earely Musick Pleyers.

At Oregon, Moore teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in elementary music education, teaching methods, and research. He also supervises student teachers. His text, Learning Recorder Through Folksong, is used in several colleges and schools. He co-authored with Clifford Madsen the Experimental Research in Music Workbook that has been adopted by numerous universities nationwide.

His research articles have appeared in the Journal for Research in Music Education, Journal for Music Therapy, Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin, Psychology of Music, Canadian Music Research Journal, Contributions in Music Education, Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, and Oregon Music Educator.

Moore served on the national executive committee of the Music Educators Research Council from 1976-1982 and 2000-2006; served on the National Council for Research in Music Education from 1989-1995; and was on the national editorial board of the Journal for Research in Music Education from 1984-1990 ns 1992-1998.

Moore served as director of the International Center for Comparative Music Education in Reading, England, in 1977-78 and taught in the Northwest Interinstitutional Study Abroad Program in Cologne, Germany, in 1981. He is the founding director of the Oregon Children's Choir that began in 1982 and has performed for many audiences on the West Coast and in Great Britain. Moore is currently doing research on how children effectively learn music.