Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking
- Author: Kaschub, Michele
- Author: Smith, Janice
Established authors and music educators, Kaschub and Smith partnered with the National Association for Music Education to publish this book on the importance of children composing music. . ....
Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking
- Author: Kaschub, Michele
- Author: Smith, Janice
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Established authors and music educators, Kaschub and Smith partnered with the National Association for Music Education to publish this book on the importance of children composing music. . ....
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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
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Established authors and music educators, Kaschub and Smith partnered with the National Association for Music Education to publish this book on the importance of children composing music. . . . Including valuable tables and charts, the book covers five age groups and highlights child development and musical progression. . . . This well-researched volume will benefit music educators, cross-curriculum advocates, and students of all ages. Recommended
British Journal of Music Education
The teaching and learning of composing in schools is so much ingrained into the English National Curriculum that it takes a book such as this to jolt British readers out of an established mindset, and to consider alternative ways of doing things....this book serves two audiences: academic researchers investigating the construct of educational composing, and teachers who wish to introduce or develop their classroom practice in this area....it offers a welcome addition to the literature on classroom composing
