Teaching Music Creatively (Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series)

With groundbreaking contributions from international experts in the field, it offers well-tested strategies for developing children's musical creativity, knowledge, skills and understanding. This edition includes a brand new chapter on teaching interculturally, showing how children can reach their full creative potential and not be constrained by cultural stereotyping.

Key topics covered include:

Creative teaching, and what it means to teach creatively

Composition, listening and notation

Spontaneous music-making

Group music and performance

The use of multimedia

Integration of music into the wider curriculum

Musical play

Assessment and planning.

Teaching Music Creatively is packed with practical, innovative ideas for teaching music in a lively and imaginative way, together with the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching methods. It is an invaluable resource for all those training to become primary school teachers, as well as practicing teachers looking for support and inspiration and undergraduate students of music and education.