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Teacher Perspectives On String Music For Young Musicians, Maria Robinson-Cseke, Bernard W. Andrews

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

This chapter outlines a multi-site, multi-year pragmatic study, entitled Sound Connections: Composing Educational Music, concerned with what works and solving problems related to the relationship of music composition to music learning. Findings indicate that the composers most often wrote several movements, each which could be performed as an independent work and with themes that appealed to young people. The pieces were rated by the teachers as easy to medium level with some of them having particularly challenging sections which required additional rehearsal time. Overall, students were able to follow the development of musical ideas and understand the structure of the …