Minds On Music » (New Edition)

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.

List of Tables ix

Foreword Bennett Reimer xi

Preface xv

Part I Rationale and Research

1 Learning and Teaching Music Composition 3

2 On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and Compositions 23

3 Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and Teachers 49

Part II Conceptualizing Compositional Pedagogy

4 Preparing for Composing 63

5 Assessment 89

6 Designing and Working in a Composing Community 101

Part III Teaching and Learning Composition

7 Composing in Early Childhood 127

8 Composing in the Upper Elementary Grades 159

9 The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and Six 185

10 Composing in Upper Middle School 205

11 Composing in High School 233

Part IV The Future of Composition Education

12 The Composition Program 261

References 273

About the Authors 283