Music Composition Education

This informational page currently provides some notes on music composition education in general, and what categories of music composition education there are.

This article is in its first draft stage.

Music Composition Education by Age Group

Child
Youth
Adolescent
Young Adult
Adult

Music Composition Education by Skill

The Skills Themselves

Sight-reading
Backwards/forwards <--> Sound/notation
Imagination <--> Page <--> Realization
Form/theory/analysis

Skill/Person

Musicianship
Creativity
Notation
Talent
Body/Mind/heart/spirit/etc. (also health)
Universal Intelligence, Religious, Meditative, Principles...conversation...connection
Instrument(s)

Acquiring Music Composition Education

Courses
Lessons
Programs (HS, college, grad school, continuing education)
Media (books, online, CD's, etc.)
Life/Experience
Art

Focusing Music Composition Education

Target form/genre
Target "Skill," including life-skills and Body/Mind/heart/spirit/etc. skills.

It makes sense to "enable" composition on multiple "levels" in order to secure one's creative freedom

Songwriter vs. Composer

The following diagram sheds some light on the Songwriter vs. Composer discussion.

The diagram yields the result that composers can write songs, and although songwriters are thereby composers, not all songwriters can "do" everything that composers "do." It is not certain that a songwriter can create an arrangement of a song, however, it is fairly certain that a composer will be able to do so. It is not certain that a songwriter can write for anything but a "band" type of setting. A composer can write for many different types of instrument combinations. Song authors belong between songwriters and lyricists.

If you are a song author and would like to upgrade your knowledge to become a songwriter, I invite you to purchase my eBook "How to Write Your Songs Down."