This article investigates the multimodal affordances presented by music software and how it can provide new opportunities for students to engage with composition work in the classroom. It seeks to broaden the scope of current research into classroom composition using technology, through a study of students' environments and compositional processes…

Much composing that takes place in the lower secondary school is undertaken as a group activity. This paper investigates what is involved when pupils work in this way, and offers a model of processes and phases, which can be used to account for group composing. The model describes what is taking place, and charts the ways in which groups of pupils…

In this article, we chose the musical form of a sonata to examine tetrads, a simple four-fold structure that Marshall McLuhan coined and employed to describe various technologies. Tetrads, as cognitive models, are used to refine, focus, or discover entities in cultures and technologies, which are hidden from view in the psyche. Tetradic logic…

Author described his own strategy for helping people learn to compose music, which he called the improvisational approach. (Author/RK)

Students can learn to listen by relating music to everyday experiences. Through their own sense of imagery and through language development, they can focus on basic concepts of music. (Editor)

Waulking is the process of shrinking tweed into a tightly woven cloth by rolling the wool into a tube and pounding it on the table in a rhythmic pattern. In the Outer Hebrides, off the western coast of Scotland, this process is traditionally done while singing. During waulking, the songs that were sung gave information about the social structure…

A report on MUSICOMP 76, "an intensive workshop designed to introduce music historians, theorists, and analysts to computer techniques relevant to their research," is presented. (Author/RW)

In 1959 the Ford Foundation made its first grant to support young composers teaching in high schools. Despite setbacks, this resulted in advances in thinking and attitudes in the music education world. Since then, the Music Educators National Conference has taken an active role in the expansion of this project. (CS)

Presents programming ideas using LOGO, activity for converting flowchart into a computer program, and a Pascal program for generating music using paddles. Includes the article "Helping Computers Adapt to Kids" by Philip Nothnagle; a program for estimating length of lines is included. (JN)

Describes uses of the computer in the development of a laboratory to assist in music learning. (Editor/RK)

Author considered dynamic contrasts of music and proposed a philosophy that student musicians can readily understand. (Author/RK)

Article profiles the life of a great music educator, conductor and performer as well as his contribution to United States music development. (RK)

Black music of African and Afro-American peoples is particularly attuned to sounds, has a metronome sense, and is analyzed through use of a density referent by which students become involved in musical compositon. (RK)

Article presents a list of musical activities as a guide for students to explore musical concepts. (RK)