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Creating and Composing Opportunities
Creating and
Composing Opportunities by Dr. Lisa A. Crawford
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CMEA Creating and Composition Representative
This article overviews events I hope you will participate in through the 2022-2023 school year! Everyone is welcome:
• CMEA Creating and Composition Monthly Zoom
Meetups (2022-2023) • CASMEC Young Composers Symposium (2023) • CMEA Composition Blog (2022-2023) • CMEA Creating and Composition Summer Workshops (2023)
Beginning in October 2022, I would like to invite you to a post-pandemic Zoom meetup once each month. The purpose of these meetings will be to work together to create strong and creative composition, songwriting, technology and music production, and lyric-writing for our classrooms for the coming year.
As we are meeting in digital environments more commonly, I would like to present monthly Zoom meetups, for anyone to join, for conversation about how to begin opportunities to create and compose music in K-16 music education. These meetings will be specifically for music educators in the field, students in credentialing programs, and professors who would like to share ideas, have discussion about what has or has not worked for them in all classroom environments, and to consider the endless possibilities for Creating and Composition that supports the work of music educators. I would like to invite interested speakers to add their voice to our meetings.
I have developed a survey so I can learn the best meeting times for those of you interested in our meetups: CMEA Creating and Composition Meetup Survey. Please respond as soon as you are able about which days of the week and what times might work best for you. We will begin with our first meetup toward the end of October 2022. Contact me with any questions as you have them! (lisacrawfordmusic@gmail.com). Watch for updates through social media and email about meeting times and dates.
You know how powerful the addition of creative work is for preK-12 and university music students. To develop ideas together, we will work on projects collaboratively, hear what others are doing in the field of creative music-making, and create engaging content that interests K-16 students in any classroom and with your choice of musical genres.
An important aspect of these discussions will be the opportunity to use the 2014 Music Standards that highlight many ideas for different areas of music education: PreK-8 General Music, Composition and Theory, Technology, Guitar/Keyboard/ Harmonizing Instruments, and Ensembles (https://nafme.org/myclassroom/standards/core-music-standards/). As well, we will use, as guidelines, the National Core Arts Standards in music (https:// www.nationalartsstandards.org/) that include Creating, Performing/ Presenting/ Producing, Responding, and Connecting. (https://www. nationalartsstandards.org/sites/default/files/Music%20at%20a%20 Glance%20rev%2012-1-16.pdf)
While we don’t yet know meeting times, here is the link you may use to join our meetings once they are scheduled: Zoom link for 2022-2023 Creating and Composition meetings.
CASMEC Young Composers Symposium (2023)
While I hope you will enjoy participating in Young Composers Symposium 2023, coming to hear the works of young composers at CASMEC 2023 is also a great way to introduce your students to the idea of composing and songwriting and hear for yourself what students are composing.
Young Composers Symposium is an opportunity for young composers to present their original and creative work for an audience in the form of digital/electronic compositions, contemporary compositions. Compositions may be performed by our ensembles at CASMEC, groups the student may arrange to perform at CASMEC, or by students themselves.
1. Please invite students to write an overview of their compositional process with details about the work submitted. 2. Please submit a recording of the composition or song. 3. Please submit notation of the work, if available. 4. Please submit your students’ creative work via email to Dr. Crawford, CMEA Creating and Composition
Representative (lisacrawfordmusic@gmail.com) by
December 1, 2022.
CMEA Composition Blog (2022-2023)
Please make time to get involved with the new “Composition 2022-2023” blog (Composition 2022-2023 Blog). It can be inspirational to learn and share with others on topics of interest in music teaching and learning!
Over time, summer workshops have been offered for teachers and students with the goal of working with creating, composition, songwriting, and music production topics for all classroom types. We hope to resume these in Summer 2023. Thank you for attending our composition-themed sessions each year at CASMEC, and I look forward to seeing you at CASMEC 2023.
