Creating Music - What Children From Around the World Can Teach Us

Children create music in individually unique ways, but also using common processes. Each creating process component stated in the United States’ National Music Standards (imagine, plan and make, evaluate and refine, and present; NCCAS, 2014) is explored in this text using children’s creations from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as examples.

List of contents

Foreword-Peter Webster
Preface
Part I The Why and How of Children's Music Creation
Chapter 1: Creating Music is Important
Chapter 2: Understanding the Processes of Music Creation
Part II Exemplifying the Creating Process Components with Children's Compositionsand Improvisations From Around the World
Chapter 3: Meeting the Children and Their Surroundings
Chapter 4: Imagining Music
Chapter 5: Planning and Making Music
Chapter 6: Evaluating and Refining Music
Chapter 7: Presenting Music
Part III Facilitating Children's Creating
Chapter 8: Crafting Creating Opportunities
Chapter 9: Mentoring Student Creations
References
About the Author

About the author

Patricia Riley is an associate professor of music and the coordinator of the music education program at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Previously, she taught at the Crane School of Music, the State University of New York at Potsdam and Green Mountain College in Poultney; and instrumental, general, and choral music for twenty years in the public schools of New Jersey and Vermont.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Elaine Riley, Riley Patricia Elaine
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781475830170
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3017-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: National Association for Music Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Educational administration and organization, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology, Students & Student Organisations