In the UK, the Music National Curriculum is based around Composing, Performing, and Listening and Appraising.
And Composing forms a major part of the GCSE and Standard grade (Scotland) examinations.
We offer original and practical help to teachers whose job it is to instruct and inspire pupils to compose music in different styles and genres.
Our latest publication is:
...which features composer Jon Raybould giving a running commentary as he composes three original pieces. Your pupils see and hear how it’s done!
Our highly popular scheme
is a course for teaching composing in the classroom situation. It comes complete with two CDs containing spoken instruction on various aspects of composing and it is crammed with music extracts which illustrate the spoken points.
It’s a very useful aid for teachers who are presented with the problem of how to teach composing to whole classes.
And then there’s
(two composing courses designed to teach the basics of chord-based composing skills using electronic keyboards)...
..and finally,
Is a useful photocopiable resource containing some excellent composing projects.