Comments on: Carol Klose on Students Composing http://www.composecreate.com/archives/1880 Tools for composing, creating, and teaching music Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wendy http://www.composecreate.com/archives/1880/comment-page-1#comment-268 Wendy Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:06:50 +0000 http://www.composecreate.com/?p=1880#comment-268 Good point Elissa! We should all be taking the approach you suggest when students learn another composers' works. There is no reason why the music can't become a part of their story or their story can't become a part of the music! Good point Elissa! We should all be taking the approach you suggest when students learn another composers’ works. There is no reason why the music can’t become a part of their story or their story can’t become a part of the music!

]]> By: Elissa Milne http://www.composecreate.com/archives/1880/comment-page-1#comment-267 Elissa Milne Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:26:52 +0000 http://www.composecreate.com/?p=1880#comment-267 I completely agree with Carol Klose's comments; performing a piece learned from a page simply cannot match the exhilaration of performing a piece a child has created right out of the keys of the piano. On the other hand "faithful repetition of other composers' works" is a pretty dull task for a child (and most adults, for that matter). As a piano teacher I don't encourage my students to faithfully repeat the repertoire they are learning - instead I encourage them to use the music to tell their own story, to create their own musical moment, and to actually be living inside the magical musical and emotional world created for them (by another composer) when they perform. I completely agree with Carol Klose’s comments; performing a piece learned from a page simply cannot match the exhilaration of performing a piece a child has created right out of the keys of the piano.

On the other hand “faithful repetition of other composers’ works” is a pretty dull task for a child (and most adults, for that matter). As a piano teacher I don’t encourage my students to faithfully repeat the repertoire they are learning – instead I encourage them to use the music to tell their own story, to create their own musical moment, and to actually be living inside the magical musical and emotional world created for them (by another composer) when they perform.

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