I’m finally making some progress on editing the Composition for Kids video presentation. I do hope to have some of these available to watch starting next week! I just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten.
In the meantime, I would encourage you to read Wynn Anne Rossi’s Original Composition Dispelling Myths article that she wrote for the August 2004 Piano Adventures Newsletter. In it, she addresses some of the questions teachers have about teaching composition and shares some great ideas about notation and encouraging composition. I couldn’t agree with her more when she states,
The most frequent mistakes young composers make? Too many
ideas—or no ideas. “No ideas” is the easier of the problems to
solve. You need only one idea for a composition, and an idea can
be as short as three notes.
You can read more about her approach to teaching composition in the article.
I do hope you’ll return next week when part of my lecture on Composition for Kids: Time Saving Ways of Encouraging Composition in your Studio will be posted.
Thank you for posting this excellent article. I had seen Wynne Anne Rossi’s notation approach for beginners with the lined paper somewhere before, and couldn’t remember how she did it — this was just what I have been looking for!
Great! I’m glad I could help you find it.