Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology

by Barbara Freedman

Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with which students can create, edit, save, and reproduce music. As Freedman demonstrates, technology allows a musical experience for all skill levels in opportunities never before available to compose manipulate, instantly listen to music electronically and even print standard Western music notation for others to play without having to know much about traditional music theory or notation. All students can have meaningful hands-on applied learning experiences that will impact not only their music experience and learning but also their understanding and comfort with 21st century technology.Whether the primary focus of your class is to use technology to create music or to explore using technology in a unit or two, this book will show you how it can be done with practical, tried-and-true lesson plans and student activities.

Genres: Education

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Sarah Dunmire · Rating 3 out of 5]

The order of the chapters/units wasn’t super straightforward for me. It also delved into a good amount of music theory, which I’m not really intending for the class I’m planning. Some of the lesson plans/instructions felt like they were missing some details. Maybe it’s because the author was avoiding being specific about particular technologies so it doesn’t become outdated? There were definitely some good ideas/concepts I’d like to use, though, so I’m glad it’s out there.