Playing Kandinsky

Competences

Listening
• Sound perception
• Interpretation
• Analysis
• Comprehension
Production
• Execution
• Composition
Reading and Writing
• Use of unconventional analogic music notation

GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]

Primary

Listening
• Learning to listen to oneself and to the others
• Listening, interpreting and describing pieces of music of different genres
• Exploring, identifying and elaborating sound phenomena on the basis of quality, space and source
Production
• Exploring different expressive capacities of voice, musical objects and musical instruments
• Improvising freely and creatively gradually learning to master techniques and materials
Reading and Writing
• Using analog and codified notation

Lower secondary school

Listening
• Understands and evaluates events, materials, and musical works recognising their meanings, also in relation to his/her own musical experience and the different historical/sociological context.
Production
• Capacity to conceive and create music and multimedia messages, also though improvisation or collective elaboration processes, using also IT tools, in critical confrontation with models belonging to the musical heritage
Reading and Writing
• Using different notation systems functional to reading, analysis and reproduction of pieces of music
• Integrating one’s own music experience with other knowledge and practices using appropriate codes and codification systems

Pre-primary

Myself and the others - Production
• They can manage their first generalizations of the past, present and future and they are more and more independent in the space that is familiar to them, by progressively changing their voices and movements with respect to other children and in accordance with shared rules.
Body and movement - Production
• They can control their gestures; they can correctly evaluate risks and interact with other children with movement games, music, dancing, and other forms of expressive communication.
Body and movement - Reading and Writing
• He/she recognises signals and rhythms of his/her body
Images, sounds, colours - Listening
• They discover the space of sound through musical perception and production by using their voice, their body as well as various objects.
Images, sounds, colours - Production
• He/she invents stories and knows how to express them through dramatization, drawing, painting and other manipulative activities; he/she uses materials and tools, expressive and creative techniques; explores the potential offered by technologies.
Images, sounds, colours - Reading and Writing
• He/she explores the first music alphabets using symbols of an informal notation to codify perceived sounds and reproduce them
Words and speeches - Listening
• looks for analogies and similarities between sounds and meanings
Words and speeches - Production
• They recognise and experience language plurality
Words and speeches - Reading and Writing
• communication through writing, also experiencing digital technology and new media
World’s knowledge - Listening
• Children are able to group and sort objects and materials according to different criteria; they can identify some of their qualities and compare and evaluate different quantities. They can use symbols to record them and make measurements

Educational targets

The students learned how to:

- understand and relativize cultural phenomena as a possible form to assign values;
- analyze, research, process, interpret and verify data;
- describe and interpret signs and symbols autonomously and with critical thinking;
- identify and manipulate the parameters of sound;
- use objects and materials for music purposes
- use the voice, body and musical instruments to communicate in an expressive way;
- become familiar with and use different modalities to produce sounds
- perform music in group;
- improvise and compose ostinatos, rhythms, accompaniments, simple musical pieces;
- use non-conventional notation codes;
- give importance to writing