Offering a brand new approach to teaching music in the primary classroom, this book provides training and qualified teachers with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively deliver a creative music curriculum. Exploring research-informed teaching ideas, diverse practices and approaches to music teaching, the authors offer well-tested strategies for developing children's musical creativity, knowledge, skills, and understanding.

Teaching music creatively / Pamela Burnard -- Sounding children's (inter-)cultural practices through musical play / Kathryn Marsh / Engaging interactively with children's group improvisations / Pamela Burnard and Jenny Boyack -- Children composing: creating communities of musical practice / Pamela Burnard, Jenny Boyack and Gillian Howell -- Becoming performers: creating participatory spaces collaboratively / Pamela Burnard and Gillian Howell with Emily Okuno, Jenny Boyack, Deborah Blair and Marcelo Giglio -- Singing the primary curriculum / James Biddulph and Jane Wheeler -- Exploring new media musically and creatively / Alex Ruthman -- Enhancing creativity through listening to music / Regina Murphy -- Celebrating children's invented notations / Renu Upitis -- Integrating music in the primary curriculum / Regina Murphy -- Assessing creatively / Regina Murphy -- Using a whole-music approach creatively / Rena Upitis -- Teaching music interculturally: Posing questions, creating possibilities / Liz Mackinlay -- Teaching music creatively in creative learning communities / Pamela Burnard.