Minds on music: composition for creative and critical thinking -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. Rationale and Research -- 1. Learning and Teaching Music Composition -- 2. On Young Composers Composing: Characteristics, Creative Capacities, and Compositions -- 3. Supporting Roles: Tools, Tasks, and Teachers -- II. Conceptualizing Compositional Pedagogy -- 4. Preparing for Composing -- 5. Assessment -- 6. Designing and Working in a Composing Community -- III. Teaching and Learning Composition -- 7. Composing in Early Childhood -- 8. Composing in the Upper Elementary Grades -- 9. The Transition to Middle School: Composing in Grades Five and Six -- 10. Composing in Upper Middle School -- 11. Composing in High School -- IV. The Future of Composition Education -- 12. The Composition Program -- References -- About the Authors

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This textbook enhances preservice and practicing music educators' understanding of ways to successfully engage children in music composition. It offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date. Minds On Music offers a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons with students in grades PreK-12.