What is it about?
The ideas come primarily from eight research studies of specific composition units taught in bands and orchestras. This article is a good starting point if you are a band, orchestra, or choir director who wants to teach composition but isn't sure how.
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Why is it important?
Composition is part of national and state standards and is a valuable musical skill. Most band, orchestra, and choir directors don't teach it because no one ever taught them how to teach it.
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This page is a summary of: Composition in the Ensemble Classroom: Ideas From Eight Researcher-Designed Methods, Update Applications of Research in Music Education, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/8755123319846542.
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