164 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Composing is part if the mainstream music curriculum for many children yet children's music does not receive the same attention as their art or creative writing. Children Composing 4-14 traces the ways in which composing can be organised and taught within the school music curriculum, drawing on children's own music-making activities. This practical book looks at how teaching composing can enable... Read more
1.Children's music 2.Children and composing 3.Listening to children's music 4.Music-making in the early years 5.Composing: the watershed 6.Composing pathways: children aged 8-12 7.Musical style: children aged 10-14 8.Composers in education 9.Composing in schools
Biography
Joanna Glover
'With great delicacy and intelligence, Children Composing 4-14 shows how we can become more attentive and so more useful in the support we offer to children who are employing instruments or voices for their own expressive purposes. The book is rooted in the realities of classroom life ... above all, it bears witness to an informed and idealistic passion that hard-pressed and test-challenged children need and deserve. - Tom Deveson, Times Educational Supplement
