Albert LeBlanc

ABOUT

Albert LeBlanc retired as Professor of Music Education in 2003 from the College of Music where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education while compiling an esteemed research portfolio. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Louisiana State University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor LeBlanc served as a school band director in Louisiana and later as evaluation specialist with the Aesthetic Education Program of CEMREL, Inc., a federally sponsored educational research laboratory in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to his faculty position at MSU, he served as associate dean. He served as Chair of the Society for Research in Music Education and later received the Senior Researcher Award from Music Educators National Conference, the National Association for Music Education. Professor LeBlanc is best known for his theory of the acquisition of individual music listening preferences, explained in LeBlanc, A. (1987) The development of music preference in children, in Peery, J. C., Peery, I. W., and Draper, T. W. Music and child development, New York, Springer Verlag. He published a sequential series of research studies (1979-2001) exploring his theory of music preference acquisition in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and Journal of Music Therapy.