Patricia Hackett is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Melody Book: 300 Selections from the World of Music for Piano. Guitar, Autoharp, Recorder, and Voice, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 1998). Professor Hackett has taught classroom, choral, and keyboard music from elementary through university levels in California, Washington, and Michigan. She has served as a clinician and choral adjudicator in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Her special fields of study included keyboard and choral music, the child voice, and music of Native Americans.
Carolynn A. Lindeman is Professor of Music at San Francisco State University and past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education (1996-98). Before college teaching, she taught and coordinated elementary classroom music programs in New York and California. Active as a clinician, she has given presentations and workshops throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of PianoLAb: An Introduction to Class Piano, Fourth Edition (Wadsworth) and more than fifty articles in professional journals. She has served as the series editor for both the Strategies for Teaching and Benchmark Performances in Music series (MENC, 1995-2002).
