Full Description
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.
Contents
Part 1 Foreword Part 2 Rationale and Research Chapter 3 Learning and Teaching Music Composition Chapter 4 On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and Compositions Chapter 5 Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and Teachers Part 6 Conceptualizing Compositional Pedagogy Chapter 7 Preparing for Composing Chapter 8 Assessment Chapter 9 Designing and Working in a Composing Community Part 10 Teaching and Learning Composition Chapter 11 Composing in Early Childhood Chapter 12 Composing in the Upper Elementary Grades Chapter 13 The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and Six Chapter 14 Composing in Upper Middle School Chapter 15 Composing in High School Part 16 The Future of Composition Education Chapter 17 The Composition Program
