Small departures
The educational path led students to identify the concept of audacity through the discovery and analysis of works of art of the Dadaist period and continued with the creative processing of the...
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Two magical words: to repeat and the same
In this project, I started by helping the students understand the general meaning of the word ostinato as well as its specific meaning in music. I led the students to experience the sense of an...
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Beyond the wall …
The experience of the theatrical-musical performance “Beyond the wall” constituted an interesting interdisciplinary work of historical research and knowledge focused on the...
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Teenage dances
The educational path focuses on Igor Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring” and is divided into two closely related parts: a first activity of listening and comprehension, a second activity...
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Sonorously
The project Sonorously aimed to educate students towards a conscious and creative use of the sonorous-musical language. The path aimed to enhance the past experience of the spoken word, of singing,...
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A journey to discover sound
The aim of this educational path was to investigate the sound as a physical phenomenon and as an expressive-communication ‘object’. Starting from a musical piece that triggered specific...
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Rhythm, movement, voice
The project “Rhythm, movement, voice” was carried out at the Comprehensive Institute in Castenaso (Bologna), from January to April 2017. It was realized with about 320 children, aged...
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Bach to the future
An original journey through time, where music and multimedia meet to introduce children to some peculiarities of baroque music in an alternative way, closer to the world of youth, thanks to the...
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All’alba vincerò (At dawn, I will win)
he aim of this educational path was to draw students closer to opera, a musical form considered too difficult and distant from their reality and their listening skills. In order to capture the...
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Sanremo in class
The educational path consisted in asking the students to choose a piece, possibly among those present in the anthological part of their coursebook. They then had to perform it individually or in...
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The music of silence
The project proposed was an experience aimed at the re-listening of sounds in nature and at their creative reformulation. The path led students to realize that there is a so-called Music of...
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From word to singing
Multiple social relationships can develop in a class. The problem is to avoid fragmentation and the possible emergence of conflicts between different groups. This course suggests proposals and...
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From silence to sound
“Being able to listen properly is the starting point to live according to the principle of good” Plutarco wrote in “De recta ratione audiendi”. Indeed, the art of listening,...
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Improvisation instructions
The activity “Improvisation instructions” consisted in realizing a musical performance that implied the use of new technologies and lyric instructions, with the aim to develop a...
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Making music
The proposal originated from the implementation of a Musical Laboratory. The Comprehensive Institute of Vigasio, in the province of Verona, had access to a double funding within the scope of a...
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My body listens
In this path, the body listens and I listen to my body. Music plays, moves, participates, experiences emotions and reinterprets them. It is a language that fosters self-exploration. The students...
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The Carnival of the Animals
The path was addressed to first-year lower secondary students, from October to May. We started by listening to the original opera The Carnival of the Animals by C. Saint - Saëns and ended with...
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The magic of opera
The project fell within the scope of actions promoted by the MIUR for the implementation of Plans aimed to Improve the Educational System. It was realized in academic year 2016/2017 in network with...
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On stage with the Queen
I have always found intriguing and challenging to stir the students’ interest for music... The correct use of new technologies was the key for a shared listening, but especially for the...
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Violinist for a day
The popular educational format “Violinist for a day” led students lacking any music experience to discover, in less than an hour, the beauty of playing the violin in an orchestra. It...
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The grain of the voice
The proposal was developed following several activities conducted during academic years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 at the Comprehensive Institute 9 of Bologna, the lower secondary school Il Guercino,...
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Opera at school: Aida
The project "Opera at school" was a laboratory activity structured with the specific aim to draw children closer to the world of opera in an amusing and involving way. It was based on theoretical...
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Let’s compose a pentatonic scale
The objective of this experience was to spur the students’ composition creativity through a laboratory that exploited the potentialities of the pentatonic scale, among which in particular the...
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Growing up with music
The project allowed, within the scope of the optional subjects for the first upper secondary school years, to develop a curricular educational path with a one-hour music class. Within the...
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