Creating Music - A Composition Guide for Students

Australian educator, Richard Gill is one of the country's most respected musical figures. This textbook is a culmination of a lifetime's involvement in music education. This practical, systematic guide to musical composition is a welcome resource to teachers and students alike.

'Creating Music is foundational in its approach to learning to compose. It posits its content to enhance "a knowledge of historical and musical context", rather than engaging with compositional techniques relevant to music of the past 25 years, or composition techniques divorced from context...at its heart, Creating Music is a resource of music and musical ideas. It will work best as a guidebook for knowledgeable and experienced teachers, aimed at students of Year 7-10 level, or with talented and interested students even younger than this' - Matthew Hindson, Limelight Magazine.