Composing Our Future: Preparing Music Educators to Teach Composition

ISBN-13: 9780199832293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 392 str.

Michele Kaschub; Janice Smith

Opis

In order to prepare pre-service teachers and meet the needs of practitioners in the field, music teacher educators need resources to guide the development of curriculum, specific courses, professional development workshops, and other environments where composition education can begin, grow, and flourish. With chapters ranging from practical information to solid theory to useful best practice examples, Composing Our Future offers fresh insight into composition in music education from authors who are directly engaged in this work.

Recenzje

Chapter authors are identified experts in their fields and provide a wide range of theoretical and practical knowledge for readers.

O autorze

Michele Kashub is Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern Maine. She is a frequent workshop presenter on the topic of music composition in the classroom and she has published in such journals as Research Studies in Music Education, Choral Journal, Music Educators Journal, and Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Janice Smith is Associate Professor of Music Education at Queens College, City University of New York. Like Kaschub, she is a frequent workshop presenter and also auther of articles which have appeared in several music education journals. Together they are authors of Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking (2009).