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• Assistant Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• Ph.D. , Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford, 2000
• M.M. , Silver Lake College, 1996
• B.M.E. , Baylor University, 1991

Background:

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Brent Gault has taught elementary and early childhood music courses in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He specializes in elementary general music education, early childhood music education, and Kodaly methodology. Professor Gault also has training in both the Orff and Dalcroze approaches to music education.

He has presented workshops at national conferences of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the Dalcroze Society of America, and the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. In addition, he has served as a presenter for regional, state, and local music education organization including the Eastern Division of MENC, the Indiana Music Educators Association, the Indiana General Music Educators Association, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and the Kodaly Educators of Eastern Pensylvania. Articles by Gault have been published in various music education periodicals, including the Bulletin of the Coucil for Research in Music Education, the Kodaly Envoy and the American Dalcroze Journal.

In addition to teaching in the Music Education Department, Dr. Gault serves as the director of the Indiana University Children's Choir.