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Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K-2 is designed to help
teachers and students create original music through materials and
activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an
innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote
the development of the compositional capacities of feelingful
intention, musical expressivity, and artistic craftsmanship. With
instructional materials aligned to real world tasks from the genres
of songwriting/choral music, composition and visual media,
instrumental music, electronic music and digital media, and music
theater, program activities easily fit into existing curricular
frames. Students will transition from participation in
teacher-facilitated whole class lessons to more independent
compositional work using Sketchpages to guide their critical and
creative thinking. These unique graphic organizers blend elements
of the composer's notebook with doodle space to help students plan
compositions, track their thinking through the compositional
process, and document their analysis of completed works. They can
also be projected in full color from the website for the book.
Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music is
designed to help teachers and students create original music
through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible.
The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and
learning to promote the development of the compositional capacities
of feelingful intention, musical expressivity, and artistic
craftsmanship. With instructional materials aligned to real world
tasks from the genres of songwriting/choral music, composition and
visual media, instrumental music, electronic music and digital
media, and music theater, program activities easily fit into
existing curricular frames. Students will transition from
participation in teacher-facilitated whole class lessons to more
independent compositional work using Sketchpages to guide their
critical and creative thinking. These unique graphic organizers
blend elements of the composer's notebook with doodle space to help
students plan compositions, track their thinking through the
compositional process, and document their analysis of completed
works.
Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music is
designed to help teachers and students create original music
through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible.
The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and
learning to promote the development of the compositional capacities
of feelingful intention, musical expressivity, and artistic
craftsmanship. With instructional materials aligned to real world
tasks from the genres of songwriting/choral music, composition and
visual media, instrumental music, electronic music and digital
media, and music theater, program activities easily fit into
existing curricular frames. Students will transition from
participation in teacher-facilitated whole class lessons to more
independent compositional work using Sketchpages to guide their
critical and creative thinking. These unique graphic organizers
blend elements of the composer's notebook with doodle space to help
students plan compositions, track their thinking through the
compositional process, and document their analysis of completed
works.
Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K-2 is designed to help
teachers and students create original music through materials and
activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an
innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote
the development of the compositional capacities of feelingful
intention, musical expressivity, and artistic craftsmanship. With
instructional materials aligned to real world tasks from the genres
of songwriting/choral music, composition and visual media,
instrumental music, electronic music and digital media, and music
theater, program activities easily fit into existing curricular
frames. Students will transition from participation in
teacher-facilitated whole class lessons to more independent
compositional work using Sketchpages to guide their critical and
creative thinking. These unique graphic organizers blend elements
of the composer's notebook with doodle space to help students plan
compositions, track their thinking through the compositional
process, and document their analysis of completed works. They can
also be projected in full color from the website for the book.
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.
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.
Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide
to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young
composers. Music Educators Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith bring a
wealth of experience to bear a unique and thoughtfully curated
series of materials that help teachers connect music education to
young composers' everyday emotions and activities . Divided into
four sections, Kaschub and Smith's book illustrates a creative
roadmap for instilling a sense of creative independence in students
ages 8-11. The first section introduces readers to three distinct
compositional ideals that are as educationally significant as the
music they help create: feelingful intention, musical expressivity,
and artistic craftsmanship. These capacities help springboard
children's work from sounds and brief musical gestures to
thoughtfully created, expressive musical pieces. Section 2 includes
fun and imaginative lessons that are accompanied by
Sketchpages-graphic worksheets that support deep consideration of a
project's purpose during the compositional process. Lessons also
include invaluable suggestions for productive sharing in a variety
of formats. Section 3 offers guidance and strategies for sharing
work, providing feedback, and encouraging future growth in a manner
that fosters a positive learning experience and acknowledges each
composer's musical autonomy. Section 4 contains additional teacher
guides focused on creating original music in different genres.
These guides outline multiple approaches to corresponding lessons
and jumpstart activity while serving as developmental models.
Experiencing Music Composition: Grades 3-5 offers new ways to
promote not only creative intuition in children but also
independent thought, preparing students for a fulfilling
relationship with music.
Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide
to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young
composers. Music Educators Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith bring a
wealth of experience to bear a unique and thoughtfully curated
series of materials that help teachers connect music education to
young composers' everyday emotions and activities . Divided into
four sections, Kaschub and Smith's book illustrates a creative
roadmap for instilling a sense of creative independence in students
ages 8-11. The first section introduces readers to three distinct
compositional ideals that are as educationally significant as the
music they help create: feelingful intention, musical expressivity,
and artistic craftsmanship. These capacities help springboard
children's work from sounds and brief musical gestures to
thoughtfully created, expressive musical pieces. Section 2 includes
fun and imaginative lessons that are accompanied by
Sketchpages-graphic worksheets that support deep consideration of a
project's purpose during the compositional process. Lessons also
include invaluable suggestions for productive sharing in a variety
of formats. Section 3 offers guidance and strategies for sharing
work, providing feedback, and encouraging future growth in a manner
that fosters a positive learning experience and acknowledges each
composer's musical autonomy. Section 4 contains additional teacher
guides focused on creating original music in different genres.
These guides outline multiple approaches to corresponding lessons
and jumpstart activity while serving as developmental models.
Experiencing Music Composition: Grades 3-5 offers new ways to
promote not only creative intuition in children but also
independent thought, preparing students for a fulfilling
relationship with music.
Composing Our Future is the ideal book for music teacher-educators
seeking to learn more about composition education. While much has
been written on the value of composition, both pre-service and
practicing teachers still report a degree of trepidation when asked
to engage in composition or in leading students to compose. In
order to prepare pre-service teachers and meet the needs of
practitioners already in the field, music teacher educators need
resources to guide the development of undergraduate and graduate
curriculum, specific courses, professional development workshops,
and environments where composition education can begin, grow and
flourish. This volume offers insight to current practices written
by authors engaged in this work. Each chapter provides information,
solid theory, and examples of successful practices that teacher
educators can draw upon in the creation and implementation of
engaging and invigorating practices in music education. This
information includes: * A charge to teacher educators to embrace
composition as a critical component in teacher preparation * An
examination of the philosophical issues surrounding composition's
inclusion in, and exclusion from, music teacher education * An
overview of what is known about child composers and the work they
create and how to help teachers draw vital information from that
body of literature * An examination of the relationship between
creativity and composition * Examples of successful practices
ranging from working with individual special learners to teaching
in a variety of school-based teaching contexts * Models of
university and school-based partnerships to facilitate pre-service
teachers' transition from collegiate study to school-based work
with children * An exploration into new tools, partnerships and
opportunities available through technology * A vision for creating
and sustaining meaningful composition programs both in colleges and
in PK-12 schools
Music teacher education is under heavy criticism for failing to
keep pace with the changing needs and interests of 21st century
learners. Technological innovations, evolving demographics in the
school age population, and students' omnipresent access to music
and music making all suggest that contemporary teaching and
learning occurs in environments that are much more complex than
those of the 19th century that served as music education's primary
model. This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to
present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher
education that may serve as new models for the 21st century.
Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and
pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at
all levels, the role of contemporary musical practices in teacher
education, and the communication challenges that surround
institutional change. Models of programs that feature in-school,
out-of-school and beyond school contexts, lifespan learning
perspectives, active juxtapositions of formal and informal
approaches to teaching and learning, student-driven project-based
fieldwork, and the purposeful employment of technology and digital
media as platforms for authentic music engagement within a
contemporary participatory culture are all offered as springboards
for innovative practice.
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