Can I play you my song?
Subtitle: the compositions and invented notations of children
By: Rena Upitis ; with a foreword by Glenda L. Bissex.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Portsmouth, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Music -- Instruction and study -- Juvenile; Composition (Music); Musical notation
Genres: Juvenile.
Description: "Using a whole language approach, 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 and 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." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187).