Methodologies for Music Education

The course brings to attention the formative, communicative and inclusive value of musical practice. The first theoretical part will focus on the acquisition of the fundamentals of musical language, in its declinations relating to the physical and perceptive characteristics of sound, notation, grammar and forms. Practical examples centred on the didactics of each of these foundational elements of music will provide a first concrete context for the development of targeted educational actions. The second part will cover knowledge of the main (historical and contemporary) approaches to the transmission and enhancement of musical skills in a multicultural context. The course also wishes to give space to the design of learning experiences based in particular on listening.

At the end of the lessons the students will know how to use the specific terminology of the subject; they will have acquired a basic knowledge of musical language and forms, didactic orientations, methods and approaches to listening. Thanks also to the exercises carried out during the course, the students will be able to associate appropriate musical proposals with the various educational contexts, constructing learning units autonomously and arguing their own didactic and methodological choices.