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About teaching

Composition pedagogy is an emerging and developing discipline in the constantly changing arts sector. In the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts, composition is considered a natural part of a child’s musical growth.

Recommendation for the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts

The goal of the curriculum working group of the Society of Finnish Composers is to achieve equity in composition teaching both regionally and in terms of the substantive competence of composition teachers, while encouraging music institutes to establish good practices in composition teaching in constructive collaboration with composers.

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RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NATIONAL CORE CURRICULUM FOR BASIC EDUCATION IN THE ARTS

Read the recommendation made by the Society of Finnish Composers in respect of composition for the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts.

 

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SKILLS TABLE FOR CURRICULUM PLANNING

Download the skills table here! Familiarise yourself thoroughly with the concepts and employ them according to the student’s capabilities and preferences. The skills table is extremely wide-ranging and covers a student’s entire study path at a music institute, and beyond – indeed, some of the items listed are things for lifelong study.

 

About teaching

Recommendation for the national core curriculum for basic education in the arts

Composition pedagogy is an emerging and developing discipline in the constantly changing arts sector.

Read the recommendation made by the Society of Finnish Composers in respect of composition for the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts.


Articles about teaching

Can anyone learn how to compose? How to get started on the pathway to composing? Why is composing a particularly recommendable pursuit for people of all ages? Read what composers, educators and scholars have to say about composition and about teaching composition.

Access all areas! Everyone is a composer

“Composition as part of music education forms part of complex processes of learning and growth. Creative inventing offers no ready-made or ‘correct’ solutions; instead, it requires the inventor to come up with new ideas and new ways of thinking, understanding and acting. Nourishing such a creative attitude to music and engaging in a critical reappraisal of musical practices are goals at least as important as social engagement in musical culture and instrument performance skills.” – Heidi Partti

Stories, improv and continuous motion – Thoughts about teaching composition

”This article is a discussion of my thoughts about teaching composition and an illustration of the process through sets of assignments that I have devised for the Opus 1 website.” – Markku Klami

Student-oriented composition teaching

“The purpose of student-oriented composition teaching is to identify the musical strengths of children and adolescents – though without forgetting about all the things that still need improvement.” – Pasi Lyytikäinen

Info

The Opus 1 composition pedagogy databank, maintained by the Society of Finnish Composers, is a gateway to the wide world of musical composition. It offers all teachers and institutions providing music education an inspiring perspective on introductory composition teaching, including a wide range of composition assignments particularly suited to teaching at music institutes, whether in large or small groups or as individual tuition.

This package was designed and delivered by a working group of specialists in composition and composition pedagogy. The project was supported financially by the Foundation for Finnish Art Music.
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Contact information

Please contact us if you want to know more: opus1@composers.fi

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Design: Farm / Antti Kangassalo
Code: Call to Action
Photos: Markku Klami
English translation: Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

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The basics

  • Listening
  • Imagination & other arts
  • Musical elements
  • Musical structures and analysis
  • Music technology
  • Notation & music terminology
  • Playing an instrument & singing
  • Styles & techniques
  • Interaction & cooperation
  • Arrangements & parts
  • ALL ASSIGNMENTS