Music Composition Resources for the Secondary Classroom

Introduce or expand composition in the music class with explorative activities in listening, composing, and performing. This is a graded course ranging from the simplest rhythmic and pitch activities to

This video game music unit is a great way to engage upper-elementary and middle school students and get them composing, listening, analyzing, and thinking about music! Students will learn about video game

This books offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Music educator Barbara Freedman presents

Use these worksheets to get your students composing their own melodies, accompaniments, and rhythm patterns! These worksheets are designed to help guide students from lower elementary through middle and

This movie music unit is a great way to engage upper-elementary and middle school students and get them composing, listening, analyzing, and thinking about music. Students explore the importance of music

In thirteen easily digestible chapters, this helpful resource highlights the most useful and practical music theory topics that educators, conductors, composers, and performers actually encounter in their

This is a perfect project for upper-elementary and middle school students to demonstrate their understanding of chords, help them practice composing and notating, and work towards the final

Adopted by high school and college music theory programs everywhere, this text is a complete examination of all aspects of modern arranging and composing. It provides students with a logical, progressive,

One of the great mysteries of music education, how to bring music composition to the band and orchestra room, is addressed effectively in this practical and pioneering text. A landmark music education

This is a three-part, six-page reproducible PDF file that guides students through a group project activity that should fill up three or four 40-minute class periods. Students start by learning from an

The Answering Voice opens our ears and voices to a new way of understanding counterpoint. Drawing on her fifty years of composing and teaching, Alice Parker envisions a theory or composition class where

This landmark work edited by Kerchner Strand brings together 18 nationally recognized teachers to offer a pioneering and practical answer to one of the great music education mysteries: how to effectively

This book presents a framework for creating effective film scores, helping to produce the best music for a given scene. It is for artists who would like to work in film, television, video games, or other

This innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition is based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When the process of composition is condensed to a

This is the second course in the series with more explorative activities in listening, composing, and performing. It is a graded course ranging from the simplest of rhythmic and pitch activities to more

In this examination of serial writing for the contemporary composer, Delamont explains the basics of a 12-tone row, then follows with practical techniques used in the melodic, contrapuntal and harmonic

Perfect for undergraduate and graduate jazz composition and arranging courses, as well as seasoned professionals, Jazz Composition and Arranging in the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical

Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint - the relationship between musical voices - is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study

Everything we do is music contains more than 50 fun, hands-on and thought-provoking activities, each taking a work by John Cage as a starting point and exploring the links between music, dance,