Why and how to Teach Music Composition

Why and how to Teach Music Composition

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  • Author: Maud Hickey
  • Publisher: R & L Education
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Composition (Music)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Offers a philosophical foundation and rationale for teaching music composition, while discussing the teachers role in composition instruction. Examines the nature of creativity and children as composers. Provides an analysis of childrens compositions and offers suggestions for creating an environment that encourages creativity in composing.


Composing Our Future

Composing Our Future

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  • Author: Michele Kaschub
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199832366
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

In order to prepare pre-service teachers and meet the needs of practitioners in the field, music teacher educators need resources to guide the development of curriculum, specific courses, professional development workshops, and other environments where composition education can begin, grow, and flourish. With chapters ranging from practical information to solid theory to useful best practice examples, Composing Our Future offers fresh insight into composition in music education from authors who are directly engaged in this work.


Minds on Music

Minds on Music

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  • Author: Michele Kaschub
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • ISBN: 160709195X
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

This textbook enhances preservice and practicing music educators' understanding of ways to successfully engage children in music composition. It offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date. Minds On Music offers a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons with students in grades PreK-12.


The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools

The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools

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  • Author: Kirsty Devaney
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000925749
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 722

The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world. Addressing the current state of composition pedagogy from primary to secondary school levels and beyond, the volume explores issues, including different curricular and extracurricular settings, cultural aspects of composing, aesthetics, musical creativity, the role of technology, and assessment. With contributors from over 30 countries, this volume encompasses theoretical, historical, empirical, and practical approaches and enables comparisons across different countries and regions. Chapters by experienced educators, composers, and researchers describe in depth the practices taking place in different international locations. Interspersed with these chapters, interludes by the volume editors contextualize and problematize the teaching and learning of composing music. The volume covers a range of contexts, including formal and informal, those where a national curriculum is mandated or where composing is a matter of choice, and a range of types, styles, and genres of musical learning and music-making. Providing a wide-ranging and detailed review of international approaches to incorporating music composition in teaching and learning, this volume will be a useful resource for teachers, music education researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and all those working with children and young people in composing music.


Music Outside the Lines

Music Outside the Lines

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  • Author: Maud Hickey
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199986673
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum. Author Maud Hickey offers both a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition and also a compendium of useful instructional ideas and classroom activities. Hickey begins with a rationale for teachers to begin composition activities in their own classrooms, with a thoughtful argument that demonstrates that all music teachers possess the skills and training needed to take children along the path toward composing satisfying musical compositions even if they themselves have never taken formal composition lessons. She also addresses some of the stickier issues that affect teaching music composition in schools such as assessment, notation, and technology. Most importantly, she introduces a curricular model for teaching composition, a model which provides an array of composition activities to try in both the music classrooms and studio. These activities encourage musical and creative growth through music composition; while they are organized in logical units corresponding to well-known teaching modules, they also offer jumping off points for music teachers to exercise their own creative thinking and create music composition activities that are customized to their classes and needs. As a whole, Music Outside the Lines both successfully reasons that music composition should be at the core of school music curriculum and also provides inservice and preservice educators with an essential resource and compendium of practical tips and plans for fulfilling this goal.


Teaching Music Through Composition

Teaching Music Through Composition

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  • Author: Barbara Freedman
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199840628
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

This book is a full multimedia curriculum that contains over 60 Lesson Plans in 29 Units of Study, Student Assignments Sheets, Worksheets, Handouts, Audio and MIDI files to teach a wide array of musical topics, including: general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology.


The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy

The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy

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  • Author: Michele Kaschub
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0197574874
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 993

The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy presents an illuminating collection of philosophy, research, applied practice, and international perspectives to highlight the practices of teaching and learning in the field of music composition. The Handbook offers various strategies and approaches in composition for teachers, music teacher educators, and students of music education.


Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music

Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music

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  • Author: Michele Kaschub
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1475864639
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

"Published in partnership with National Association for Music Education."


Music Composition for Teens - a Graded Second Course

Music Composition for Teens - a Graded Second Course

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  • Author: Aiana Janse Van Rensburg , Ph.d.
  • Publisher: CreateSpace
  • ISBN: 9781499697131
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

This book is written as an aid for the creative teacher who wishes to expand composition in the music class. It is a graded course, following on Music Composition for Teens - a graded First Course. Activities include assignments on more advanced work including triads, secondary triads, four-part writing and twentieth-century techniques. This is also a multimedia course that uses keyboards, instruments, video, recording devices, computers, notation software and other media. It is aimed at encouraging student interactivity with various media. It is also a multi-arts course as visual, dramatic and language arts are included where applicable. The course includes music from various cultures and this multi-cultural approach allows students to develop a deeper understanding of various tone systems, instruments and musical approaches used across the world. Assignments focus on structured creativity which guides students to symbolize sound through guided composition activities, thus enabling students to acquire a musical literacy. This composition course is neither a theory nor a harmony method, but rather a composition skill and knowledge builder. Teachers may supplement composition assignments with more detailed theory and harmony work. This course is aimed at the acquisition of standard notation skills. In addition there is an introduction to the use of improvisation, electronic media and twentieth-century techniques employing graphic notation. Composition assignments begin with simple two or four measure phrases exploring new concepts. The assignments become more challenging as the course progresses. Compositions need not be enormous works of many pages. Indeed, shorter compositions which accurately demonstrate a compositional device will be far more worthwhile and less daunting to the beginner composer. Any of the composition assignments can be expanded if necessary. Even the simplest four measure structure can be expanded to a lengthy composition by using the devices learned in the module. Teachers should engage students through an anticipatory explorative set at the start of composition activities with suitable listening, visual, kinesthetic and explorative activities. Exploration engages the imagination and inspires critical thinking, speculation and the creative process. Suggestions have been included where applicable. Listening suggestions include more well-known works easily accessible in the media. A wide variety of musical styles is addressed and explored in this course. Teachers should use discretion, not all assignments would be suitable for your particular group. However, by exploring many musical styles e.g. jazz, African music, Baroque, ensemble, etc. the idea remains that Composing and creative activities are for skill building and application; Knowledge regarding various musical styles and cultures should be gained through active, creative exploration; Various styles and compositional techniques should be learned, not to stereotype student compositions, but to broaden the young musician's scope and horizons.


Composition in the Classroom

Composition in the Classroom

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  • Author: Jackie Wiggins
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • ISBN: 9780940796836
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60

Presents various techniques for teaching children skills to compose music under limited teacher guidance. The specific approaches examined are teacher-guided composition, small group composition, and individual composition.