Children, computers and composing: What ICT can tell us

When children compose music in an electronic environment they are able to approach music and composition in very different ways. Analysis of their compositions reveals that children have a remarkably different approach to music than what has been reported in the music education literature over the past three decades. This paper investigates the special relationship children have with the electronic environment and how that environment allows researchers to experience and analyse the compositions as they were written; not how we think they were written

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