Minds on Music

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.

Reflective, energising and informed, this book should be core reading for all wishing to know more about teaching and learning composition, along with entrants to the profession. Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith provide comprehensive and contemporary understanding of music composition rooted in genuinely educational contexts which reach in and beyond the classroom to the contemporary musical world in all its richness and diversity of practices. Combining the latest research with practical ideas and tasks,this multi-dimensional book sets out to inform, inspire and equip music educators of our time...

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 Rationale and ResearchChapter 3 Learning and Teaching Music CompositionChapter 4 On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and CompositionsChapter 5 Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and TeachersPart 6 Conceptualizing Compositional PedagogyChapter 7 Preparing for ComposingChapter 8 AssessmentChapter 9 Designing and Working in a Composing CommunityPart 10 Teaching and Learning CompositionChapter 11 Composing in Early ChildhoodChapter 12 Composing in the Upper Elementary GradesChapter 13 The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and SixChapter 14 Composing in Upper Middle SchoolChapter 15 Composing in High SchoolPart 16 The Future of Composition EducationChapter 17 The Composition Program