ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the creator orientation can be enhanced in ensemble settings and in general music. It gives six detailed examples of how creating resources can be treated as text and how student literacies may be targeted in instruction. The chapter discusses potential benefits of applying the literacy lens to creator orientation instruction. It proposes that music creativity be addressed on a daily basis and considers as foundational to a music education as are performing, responding, and connecting. The vignettes offer descriptions of what creating literacy instruction might look like in music classrooms. The goals guiding the instruction in each vignette are to put texts that nurture music creativity into play to be negotiated and created by students, and provide instruction that facilitates the literacies needed for appropriate and meaningful interactions with these texts. The vignette utilizes very common aspects of the music education world: instruments and ensembles.
