Minds on Music

Providing a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons in grades preK-12, Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith share insights, guidelines, and classroom-tested lesson plans and scenarios for composition activities for students of various ages, physical capabilities, and ability levels. Book jacket.

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.