Meet the Authors
Danette Littleton
University of Texas, PhD.
Florida State University, MMEd. & BMEd.
Musical studies in piano, voice, and choral conducting led to a career in music education as a teacher of students from preschool, kindergarten, through high school, and university. As Professor of Music Education, I prepared music teachers for positions in public and private schools; and I taught undergraduate courses in music history and literature.
Furthermore, I designed music and arts education programs funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Getty Foundation, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning in the Arts, Head Start, Sesame Street Workshop, Leonard Bernstein Center, Gibson Guitar Corporation, the Grammy Foundation, and The Lifelong Learning Society. In addition to consulting with educators, I developed and implemented a music therapy program for cancer survivors and their families; and lectured at churches and temples on music and spirituality.
My work includes publications and presentations at conferences and universities in the USA, Canada, England, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and South Africa concerning the emergence of human musicality and the relationship between music learning and play during infancy and childhood when the child's urge to learn is most fervent and the child's sensitivity to music most vibrant.
Meryl Sole
Teacher’s College, Columbia University, Doctorate in Music and Music Education, Ed.D, Ed. M
Boston University, Masters in French Horn Performance, MM
Musical training in music history, theory and French horn performance led me to a career as a music teacher at the university level. As an Adjunct Professor of Music, I teach undergraduate and graduate students in music education, theory and history. My research focuses on early childhood music where I explore musical parenting and musical development through toddlers’ spontaneous “crib songs.” I also study popular music and creative approaches in music theory pedagogy.
Meryl Sole, Ed.D is a music educator, researcher and French horn player. She holds her doctorate in Music and Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as a masters in Brass performance from Boston University and a bachelors in Music Theory and Music History from the University of Pennsylvania. Meryl has held full time music faculty positions at The University of New Haven, Bergen Community College, and SUNY Empire State College. She has also taught at Adelphi University, New Jersey City University, and Nassau Community College. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education at New York University and Teachers College. Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Meryl’s research focuses on early childhood music where she explores musical parenting and musical development through toddlers’ spontaneous “crib songs.” She recently published research on crib song in both Psychology of Music and in the Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development. She also studies popular music and creative approaches in music theory pedagogy. Meryl's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and she has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences.