The Project was realized within a music-oriented course at the Comprehensive Institute R.L. Montalcini in Bitritto (Bari), during the academic year 2017/18, under the headmaster Nicola Bolumetti. In my first year as full-professor in the Violin class AM77, I decided to dare and propose to my instrument colleagues the realization of a musical fairy tale capable of leading the students to become familiar with music and its interpretation. My desire was to involve in the performance not the usual orchestra composed of second-year and third-year students, but an orchestra composed of first-year students who started learning how to play an instrument in September. My colleague Giovanna Carone, coordinator of the Instrument Course, appreciated the project and worked with me in realizing this dream. The final objective consisted in a public performance of a part of the fairy tale, alternating the various subjects involved in the performance, namely the narrator, the actors (fifth-year primary school students), the Choir and the Orchestra composed of violins, clarinets, pianos and guitars. In total, 50 students were involved.
The Project was multidisciplinary and provided continuity with the primary school. It involved all the music teachers, the primary school teacher, Fiorella Mastrofrancesco, who was in charge of preparing the texts for the acted parts and of the Choir, the Art and Image teacher, Prof. Mimmo Silletti, and some third-year students for the realization of the scenery.
The realization of the project MUSIC+THEATER=MUSICAL required and benefitted from a multidisciplinary cooperation.
The teachers involved were as follows:
- Musical instrument: Piano, Violin, Guitar and Clarinet
- Music, in the primary school for Choir and actors (prepared by the piano teacher)
- Art and image for the Scenery
The tools used were as follows:
- Acoustic musical instruments (violins, guitars, clarinets, piano, keyboards)
- Full score
- Piano scores
- IWB, PC
- Staff blackboard
- Stereo system and microphones for actors
- Music stands
- Equipment for the scenery
The skills, goals and training objectives selected by the teacher for this experience are shown below.
The students learned how to:
- read a score in simple and complex figurations;
- perform on their instrument even non-melodic parts, respecting rhythms and sonorities, entries and music colors;
- follow a conductor after only a few months of study;
- behave properly in a theatrical context with different scenic moments, and remain concentrated for an increasing amount of time.
The students worked on the following competences:
- LISTENING:
- Interpretation (to give a sense to their own sound inserting it in a wider score context),
- Analysis of the orchestra parts as sections of a whole, and the ability to connect them to other parts performing, for example, the same melody or to beat its time;
- Understanding of key concepts (scales, tonalities, rhythms) transferable to other productions, and the ability to connect them to other prior knowledge and sources
- PRODUCTION:
- A performance, developing the ability to reproduce an already existing musical piece expressing its musical characteristics; know how to manage personal cognitive/body/emotional/rational dynamics when performing in public.
- READING-WRITING:
- Use of conventional musical notation developing the ability to read music using the western rhythmic and melodic musical notation, as well as the symbols in use to mark dynamics, agogics and chords
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