Composing Matters

Composing Matters is an integrated resource consisting of a pupil book, teacher’s resource file and a CD/CDROM. It comprises 25 composing projects, with supporting teacher’s notes and support material on a combined audio CD/CD Rom.
The pupil book contains the projects, in full colour, as well as support material and advice for pupils. The teacher’s resource file contains games and warm-up exercises to help with improvisation and project work; skills-based mini projects, with accompanying teacher's notes, to help pupils to develop key skills; templates for assessment based around the National Curriculum.

The CD Rom :contains musical works from existing composers; provides over 50 MIDI-files to help pupils to improvise and compose, which are linked to improvisation frameworks in the Teacher's File. contains 70 MP3-files and 22 audio tracks to support the projects and the composing process, as well as 3 videos for pupils to set to music.