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.

Part 1 Foreword Part 2 Rationale and Research Chapter 3 Learning and Teaching Music Composition Chapter 4 On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and Compositions Chapter 5 Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and Teachers Part 6 Conceptualizing Compositional Pedagogy Chapter 7 Preparing for Composing Chapter 8 Assessment Chapter 9 Designing and Working in a Composing Community Part 10 Teaching and Learning Composition Chapter 11 Composing in Early Childhood Chapter 12 Composing in the Upper Elementary Grades Chapter 13 The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and Six Chapter 14 Composing in Upper Middle School Chapter 15 Composing in High School Part 16 The Future of Composition Education Chapter 17 The Composition Program