I am a music teacher in an elementary school and one of the biggest things that I have attempted to do is make the composition part of music a lot more hands on. The program that I currently use is called Finale and it is a very in-depth program. The problem that experience is that Finale is really designed for music composers and not necessarily for classroom composition. I have however found a couple of ways of getting around its group work issues. First is the use of a smart board. By having a touch sensitive piece of hardware where the students are able to place the notes they would like to use by simply touching the coordinating area is absolutely the kind of music tangibility that I desire to offer my students. This is of course the most ideal.
Music notation software
