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 special music project, exactly 20 years ago. Therefore, we had the possibility to fully equip a classroom with acoustic, digital and IT educational aids. The peculiarity of the project consisted in organizing classes made up of students of different ages: youngsters and children shared an experience in a favorable and welcoming environment. The nursery schools participating in the project were 5 (2 state schools and 3 state-controlled schools, groups made up of 5-year old students) combined with 5 lower secondary school classes. They all met in the laboratory during morning school-hours with a lower secondary school class. Each vertical group met three or four times during the academic year. At the end of the path, an event was organized in the school’s garden or at the indoor stadium inviting parents and the municipal administration.
Learning environment equipped with various instruments.
A 120 square meter Musical Laboratory without desks was an element of novelty, something totally different following a freer educational methodology. Continuity, transversality and verticality were important elements, fundamental for the project. The musical laboratory allowed various schools of the territory to meet in network.
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The skills, goals and training objectives selected by the teacher for this experience are shown below.
Lower secondary school
The students learned how to:
- recognize and develop their rhythmic and melodic skills
- perform in an expressive way vocal and instrumental pieces, both collectively and individually
- improvise and reformulate simple vocal and instrumental pieces, using both open structures and simple rhythmic-melodic schemes
- work in group, and share musical ideas
Nursery school
The students learned how to:
- explore the initial musical alphabets, using symbols in order to code and reproduce the sounds heard
- discover the sonorous landscape through activities that allowed to listen to and identify noises, sounds of the environment and of the body
- recognize various musical instruments and their sounds
- represent graphically sounds, noises and silence
| Presentazione della buona pratica | Download |
| Girotondomondo | Download |
| Proposta struttura e partitura gruppo classe | Download |
| Partiture canzoni verticali - PIO PIO PIO | Download |
| Partiture canzoni verticali - STELLA STELLINA | Download |
| Partiture canzoni verticali - TROTTA TROTTA | Download |
| Partiture canzoni verticali - IL MULINO | Download |
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