Minds on Music - Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking

Informationen zum Autor Michele Kaschub and Janice P. Smith bring over 50 years of experience in music composition research and pedagogy to the creation of the Experiencing Music Composition approach. As authors, editors, clinicians, and workshop leaders, they have worked with educators throughout the United States and abroad to expand the compositional opportunities available to K–12 students and their teachers. Klappentext This book 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Michele Kaschub, Michele Smith Kaschub, Michele/ Smith Kaschub, Bennett Reimer, Janice Smith, Janice P. Smith
• Assisted by: Reimer Bennett (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2009
• EAN: 9781607091936
• ISBN: 978-1-60709-193-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Music > Instrument lessons; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition, Theory of music & musicology, Music composition