Concert Band Turned Composer Band Create, Perform, Publish to the World! www.composinginband.weebly.com The Why? Elementary general music curriculum has a strong compositional and improvisational background through various teaching methods. In addition, music technology electives are popping up in many middle and high schools which usually involve music creation as part of its natural being. But in concert band, a time and place which has trained instrumentalists ready to perform, we usually leave the creative touch to those students who are in the jazz band. Students who want to dig deeper into music might take a theory class filled with vocabulary and drill. What if there was a way to marry the performance ability of concert band students with their untapped creativity by channeling their understanding of music through composition? My journey and questioning of how to run a successful rehearsal began a few years ago. At that time I faced my band’s bigg
.....musings of a music educator.