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Can I Play You My Song?: The Compositions and Invented Notations of Children
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Can I Play You My Song?: The Compositions and Invented Notations of Children Paperback - 1992

by Upitis, Rena


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Author and educator Rena Upitis has written a unique book to help regular classroom and private music teachers recognize and foster children's attempts at notating music as they engage in improvisation and composition. Through a colorful, engaging narrative, Upitis describes a "whole music" classroom where teachers, using a child-centered environment, can introduce activities encouraging children to compose and notate their own works. Familiar techniques from a whole language classroom -- such as the use of writing folders and conferencing -- are refashioned in a music context.

Including over seventy examples of children's invented notations, comparing the development of music notations with invented spellings, Can I Play You My Song? is full of ideas for individual projects, small group compositions, and full-class works.

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  • Title Can I Play You My Song?: The Compositions and Invented Notations of Children
  • Author Upitis, Rena
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition F First Edition
  • Pages 187
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Heinemann Drama, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-05
  • ISBN 9780435087050

About the author

Rena Upitis (Ed.D., Harvard) teaches music at the Faculty of Education at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She has taught music at elementary schools in both Canada and the United States and has published widely on music education, including the book This Too Is Music (Heinemann, 1990). A trained pianist, cellist, vocalist, and composer, Rena's compositions include arrangements of Latvian folk tunes and a children's musical. She lives in the country near Kingston in a restored limestone schoolhouse.

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