Let’s all play pretending to be class orchestra conductors

Competences

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

GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]

Primary

Listening
• Learning to listen to oneself and to the others
• Identify the constitutive elements of a simple piece of music
• 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
• Producing timbre, melodic and rhythmic combinations applying basic schemes; executing them with the voice, the body and instruments (including IT tools).
• Improvising freely and creatively gradually learning to master techniques and materials
• Playing, alone or in group, simple vocal or instrumental pieces of music belonging to different genres and cultures, using also didactic instruments and self-made tools.
Reading and Writing
• Using analog and codified notation

Educational targets

The students learned how to:
- activate cooperation and socialization processes;
- acquire instruments of knowledge;
- enhance creativity and participation;
- develop the sense of belonging to a community;
- interact between different cultures;
- produce directly (exploration, composition, performance), with and on sonorous materials, in particular through ensemble music;
- develop and formulate personal, social and cultural meanings, with regard to facts, events, works of the present and of the past;
- play musical instruments;
- produce creatively;
- listen;
- understand and reflect critically;
- contribute to their psychophysical wellbeing, in the perspective to prevent unease, by answering needs, desires, questions;
- start reading and writing music through the experience of making music, producing it even through improvisation, understood as gesture and thought which is discovered the moment it occurs;
- compose at once;
- develop flexible, intuitive, creative thinking;
- participate in the patrimony of different musical cultures;
- use the specific competences of the subject to grasp meanings, ways of thinking, of living, and the values of the community to which they refer;
- express themselves and communicate through instruments and the specific techniques of their own language;
- become aware of their belonging to a cultural tradition and at the same time become familiar with, compare and respect the other cultural and religious traditions;
- establish interpersonal and group relations, based on shared practices and listening;
- develop an artistic sensitivity with regard to the interpretation of sonorous messages and pieces of art;
- increase their personal judgement and the level of aesthetic use of the cultural patrimony.