Beyond the wall …

Competences

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

GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]

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
• Actively participating in music experiences through the execution and the interpretation of vocal and instrumental music pieces belonging to different genres and cultures.
• 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

Educational targets

The students learned how to:
- identify the various sonorous parameters and the melodic profile, establishing their relation, within the piece proposed
- control intonation autonomously
- perform, reformulate, and translate rhythmic and melodic schemes with their bodies and voices
- recognize the function of a piece, its formal, rhythmic and melodic characteristics in order to improve its performance, also through movements
- study and analyze the structure, the melodic and rhythmic aspects of various pieces for a personal formulation
- explore the different expression possibilities of the voice with regard to the style of the piece, and listen to themselves and the group
- reproduce a given piece and manage their emotional dynamics, both individual and with regard to the group
- compare pieces of different genres and styles, and play them by decoding the musical notation and by imitation
- organize themselves in the temporal and physical space, both during rehearsals and during the performance
- develop body percussion sequences on given pieces respecting the rules shared by the group