Creating Music

What Children from Around the World Can Teach Us

Patricia Elaine Riley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2016
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3016-3 (ISBN)

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Children create music in individually unique ways, but also using common processes. Each creating process component stated in the United States’ National Music Standards (imagine, plan and make, evaluate and refine, and present; NCCAS, 2014) is explored in this text using children’s creations from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as examples. What can the characteristics of music created by children from five diverse locations teach us about creating music? How do the sounds surrounding children in their schools, homes, and communities affect the music they create and what can be learned from this? How do children’s similar creating processes inform how we teach music? These questions are investigated as the children’s music compositions and improvisations are shared and examined. As this narrative unfolds, readers will become acquainted with the children, their original music, and what the children say about their music and its creation. What we learn from this exploration leads to teaching strategies, projects, lesson plans, and mentoring recommendations that will help music educators benefit from these particular children’s creations.

Patricia Riley is an associate professor of music and the coordinator of the music education program at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Previously, she taught at the Crane School of Music, the State University of New York at Potsdam and Green Mountain College in Poultney; and instrumental, general, and choral music for twenty years in the public schools of New Jersey and Vermont.

Foreword—Peter Webster
Preface
Part I The Why and How of Children’s Music Creation
Chapter 1: Creating Music is Important
Chapter 2: Understanding the Processes of Music Creation
Part II Exemplifying the Creating Process Components with Children’s Compositions and Improvisations From Around the World
Chapter 3: Meeting the Children and Their Surroundings
Chapter 4: Imagining Music
Chapter 5: Planning and Making Music
Chapter 6: Evaluating and Refining Music
Chapter 7: Presenting Music
Part III Facilitating Children’s Creating
Chapter 8: Crafting Creating Opportunities
Chapter 9: Mentoring Student Creations
References
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2016
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-3016-5 / 1475830165
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-3016-3 / 9781475830163
Zustand	Neuware