Sounds Australian, Journal of the Australian Music Centre, No. 66 2005
Climbing Mountains: The Teaching and Learning of Composition
Edited by Stuart Greenbaum and Matthew Hindson
Retail price: $7.70
This edition explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of composing and the process of learning composition.
Articles
- Editorial: The teaching and learning of composition [Stuart Greenbaum and Matthew Hindson]
- Learning to Compose: The role of education [Ros McMillan]
- Survey of Year 12 Composition Requirements [Matthew Hindson]
- Theme and Variations: The handing down of knowledge [Ros Bandt, Charles Bodman Rae, Louise Denson, Julian Knowles, Bruce Reid, and Adam Yee]
- Leaving on a Jet Plane [Elliott Gyger, Kate Neal]
- Far From the Madding Crowd [Maria Grenfell, Steven Campbell]
- 'Street Cred' - Non-Composers Teaching Composition - A personal perspective [Richard Toop]
- The Computer - “ It loves me, it loves me not...” [Gordon Kerry, Deidre Rickards, and John Spence]
- Learning Composition: Passion and knowledge [Thomas Reiner]
- To Workshop or Not To Workshop [Roland Peelman]
- Assistant - Mentor Relationships [Brett Dean, Ross Edwards, James Ledger, John Peterson, and Peter Sculthorpe]
- Teaching Composition: Lessons from an 'eminence' study [Margaret Barrett]
- Different Generations: The getting of wisdom [Katy Abbott, Elena Kats-Chernin, Alice Keath, Tom McCarthy, Richard Meale, and Matthew Orlovich]
- The Best Job in the World [Anne Boyd, Graeme Koehne, and Paul Stanhope]
Reviews
CDs
- Conversations, Move Records MD 3289, 2004. [reviewed by Andrew R. Brown]
- Harmonia-Australian Music featuring Recorders/Ian Shanahan, (recorders), Sidereal Records SRCD01, 2004 [reviewed by Genevieve Lacey]