Abstract
Abstract This chapter is divided into two sections that address how music composition has evolved and expanded in Portuguese music classrooms. The first section offers a contextualization of the history and politics of education in Portugal, focusing on the field of music and music composition. This section also explores how and why musical practices in the Portuguese classroom repeatedly favor vocal and instrumental performance over music composition and other creative activities. The second section offers examples from my own practice as a teacher and researcher. I do so as a way of illustrating how, despite the general Portuguese landscape, some music teachers and researchers have been addressing and developing music composition in Portuguese classrooms. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the need to enhance music composition pedagogy at the level of general education, searching for new ways that might evidence the importance of music composition in the classroom and new routes to develop it with pupils.
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