Minds on Music

by Kaschub, Michele; Smith, Janice P.; Reimer, Bennett

• ISBN13: 9781607091943
• ISBN10: 1607091941
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Providing a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons in grades preK-12, Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith share insights, guidelines, and classroom-tested lesson plans and scenarios for composition activities for students of various ages, physical capabilities, and ability levels. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michele Kaschub is coordinator of music teacher education and graduate studies at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. She has actively worked with young composers and their teachers in general and choral settings for twenty years. Janice Smith is undergraduate coordinator of music education at Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York. Prior to coming to Queens she had a thirty-year career teaching music in the public schools of Maine.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Foreword Bennett Reimer	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Rationale and Research
Learning and Teaching Music Composition	p. 3
On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and Compositions	p. 23
Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and Teachers	p. 49
Conceptualizing Compositional Pedagogy
Preparing for Composing	p. 63
Assessment	p. 89
Designing and Working in a Composing Community	p. 101
Teaching and Learning Composition
Composing in Early Childhood	p. 127
Composing in the Upper Elementary Grades	p. 159
The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and Six	p. 185
Composing in Upper Middle School	p. 205
Composing in High School	p. 233
The Future of Composition Education
The Composition Program	p. 261
References	p. 273
About the Authors	p. 283
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