Music Outside the Lines

Ideas for Composing Music in K-12 Music Classrooms
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-982679-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 373 g

Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum. Author Maud Hickey addresses the practical needs of music educators by offering both a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition and also a compendium of useful instructional ideas and classroom activities. Hickey begins with a rationale for teachers to begin composition activities in their
own classrooms, with a thoughtful argument that demonstrates that all music teachers possess the skills and training needed to take children along the path toward composing satisfying musical compositions even if they themselves have never taken formal composition lessons. She also addresses some of the
stickier issues that plague teaching music composition in schools such as assessment, notation, and technology. Most importantly, she introduces a curricular model for teaching composition, a model which provides an array of composition activities to try in the music classrooms and studios. These activities encourage musical and creative growth through music composition; while they are organized in logical units corresponding to existing teaching modules, they also offer jumping off points for
music teachers to exercise their own creative thinking and create music composition activities that are customized to their classes and needs.

As a whole, Music Outside the Lines both successfully reasons that music composition should be at the core of school music curriculum and also provides inservice and pre-service educators with an essential resource and compendium of practical tips and plans for fulfilling this goal.

Zielgruppe

This book will appea to in-service and pre-service music teachers, as well as to music teacher educators (ie, university music education professors)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hickey, Maud

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpädagogik, Gesangspädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The Issues
Chapter 3 - Defining, Listening and Exploring
Chapter 4 - Composition Prompts: Inspiration and Identity
Chapter 5 - Form in Music
Chapter 6 - Musical Elements
Chapter 7 - Big Elements
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hickey, Maud
Maud Hickey is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Technology at Northwestern University. She is a frequent contributor to such journals as the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, College Music Symposium, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, and Research Studies in Music Education.