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An approach to the pedagogy of beginning music composition: teaching understanding and realization of the first steps in composing music

Stanojevic, Vera D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1095793114

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2004, Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
Conducting a first course in music composition in a classroom setting is one of the most difficult tasks a composer/teacher faces. Such a course is much more effective when the basic elements of compositional technique are shown, as much as possible, to be universally applicable, regardless of style. When students begin to see these topics in a broader perspective and understand the roots, dynamic behaviors, and the general nature of the different elements and functions in music, they begin to treat them as open models for individual interpretation, and become much more free in dealing with them expressively. This document is not designed as a textbook, but rather as a resource for the teacher of a beginning college undergraduate course in composition. The Introduction offers some perspectives on teaching composition in the contemporary musical setting influenced by fast access to information, popular culture, and globalization. In terms of breadth, the text reflects the author’s general methodology in leading students from basic exercises in which they learn to think compositionally, to the writing of a first composition for solo instrument. The concept of universal applicability of techniques is carried through discussions on the nature of sound as an expressive resource, how to deal with first ideas, exploration and formation of motives, building phrases, and the notion of form in music. The approach and procedures in the text are based on the author’s own experiences teaching composition at The Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Examples and assignments serve to illustrate points in the text, and to assist the teacher in the classroom.
Donald Harris (Advisor)
Music
music composition pedagogy; beginning music composition

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  • Stanojevic, V. D. (2004). An approach to the pedagogy of beginning music composition: teaching understanding and realization of the first steps in composing music [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1095793114

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stanojevic, Vera. An approach to the pedagogy of beginning music composition: teaching understanding and realization of the first steps in composing music. 2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1095793114.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stanojevic, Vera. "An approach to the pedagogy of beginning music composition: teaching understanding and realization of the first steps in composing music." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1095793114

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