Comments on: Question #1: Students Writing Down Compositions http://www.composecreate.com/archives/1451 Tools for composing, creating, and teaching music Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Elissa Milne http://www.composecreate.com/archives/1451/comment-page-1#comment-161 Elissa Milne Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:46:38 +0000 http://www.composecreate.com/?p=1451#comment-161 I've always found it is the students who are particularly keen to notate their compositions, and to make it look like 'proper' music. Then there are the students who are keen to remember the music they have composed, and they are amazingly resourceful in creating their own memory jogging notations. What surprises me is that more students don't record themselves playing their compositions, either audio-only or as a video recording. This, after all, would produce the most specific evidence of their creative efforts! I’ve always found it is the students who are particularly keen to notate their compositions, and to make it look like ‘proper’ music. Then there are the students who are keen to remember the music they have composed, and they are amazingly resourceful in creating their own memory jogging notations.

What surprises me is that more students don’t record themselves playing their compositions, either audio-only or as a video recording. This, after all, would produce the most specific evidence of their creative efforts!

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