Contemporary pedagogies: creative music movement

Benefits of this approach for music education

· Does not require skills in reading Western notation

· Little prior musical knowledge needed

· Allows for improvisation, creativity and imagination

· Doesn’t require traditional instruments to make sound – anything in the environment can be used

· Students take ownership of sounds

· Students engage with the musical thinking of their time

· Build discernment for individual sounds within a larger textural structure

· Student-centred learning

· Cross-genre

· Fun

Drawbacks/ challenges

· Disconnected from children’s own experience of music

· Not necessarily accessible for the listener: the use of chance elements means melodies and harmonies may not be recognisable and memorable, and thus relatable