Text: Composition curriculum working group of the Society of Finnish Composers Background to the composition curriculum recommendation Composition pedagogy is an emerging and developing discipline in the constantly changing arts sector. In the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts, composition is considered a natural part of a child’s musical growth. So far, however, composition teaching has been uneven in content due to the varying professional competence of composition teachers but also due to the lack of a curriculum for composition teaching. Moreover, composition teaching is only available at a handful of music institutes in Finland at the moment. The purpose of the composition curriculum working group of the Society of Finnish Composers is to achieve a level playing field for composition teaching in terms of both regional coverage and substantive competence while encouraging music institutes to establish good practices in composition teaching in
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