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To compose music does not mean “to write
a song”, nor is it an activity restricted to

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specialists. To compose is a game in which 
everybody can participate. It is

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sufficient to learn the rules. It is not even
necessary to study solfeggio and harmony

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for years. However, first of all,
it is necessary

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to agree on what the word “music” means 
and on what the verb “to compose” means.

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The project “Bluebeard” 

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dates back to the academic year
2011-2012. I proposed

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it (back then I taught 
Philosophy at the music-oriented

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upper secondary
school “Passaglia” in Lucca) in cooperation with

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Lucia Bianucci, who taught History
of Music, and Guido Masini, who

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taught Ensemble Music. The key idea was
to lead students to compose pieces, 

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something they had never done, and to 
make them become interpreters of

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their pieces.
To make things more complicated, we

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involved in the project students-actors
from the upper secondary school 

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“Machiavelli-Capponi” in Florence, 
guided by their French Language and 

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Literature teacher, Anna Agostini (who was 
also in charge of the school’s 

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theatrical division), engaged in creating a 
text freely inspired by the fairy-tale

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“Bluebeard”.

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino put at disposal
the spaces of the Piccolo Teatro del

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Maggio for the staging. In fact, the
final performance was staged during

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the season dedicated to 
youngsters.