Every Child a Composer

CONTENTS: Evolutionary musicology and music education - Music, evolution and self-expression - The vocal basis of human musicality as an evolved phenomenon - Music education and creativity - Musical learning through collective creativity - Pedagogy for collective creativity: Introducing Harmony Signing - Harmony Signing: Commencing with monophonic work - The evolution of polyphony - The basis of Harmony Signing: Three-part voice-leading - Expanding the harmonic world: Journeys beyond the tonic horizon - A notation system for sketching Harmony Signing operations - Composing with the Primary Triads - Introducing inversions - Further exercises to develop security of location - Expanding the universe via modulation: Excursions to replacement keys - New chords within the Tonic: The Secondary Triads of the major scale - Free(r) composition: Moving beyond homophony - Minor mode signing - New short-cuts to modulation, and new destinations - The Pandora's box of chromaticism: The diminished triads and other «portkeys»; modal variants and 12-note music - More on 7ths and their implications, 9th chords, and enharmonic relationships - Harmony Signing in four (or more) parts - Creative Harmony Signing in group composition and improvisation - The limits of Harmony Signing: What students suggest, and some further directions to explore - Teaching Composition at Secondary School - Creative pedagogy in practice - Developing compositional strategies - «What if ?» analysis: Creative engagement with existing music - Developing an integrated music curriculum that fully embraces creativity.