The Music discipline helps students develop listening skills, creativity, and personal expression through voice and sound. With a workshop-based approach, each student explores their own potential, learns to collaborate and share, and builds a critical awareness of the world of sound, both past and present.
Spring Section and Nursery School
In the Spring Section and Nursery School, children are stimulated through various sound sources with the aim of developing perception and listening skills.
The musical experience aims to improve children’s expressive communication through the use of voice and body movement in space, in the belief that this helps them increase self-esteem and self-confidence, aiding the process of emotional regulation and improving individual and group participation. Basic musical elements (rhythm and melody) stimulate motor coordination, body awareness, attention, and concentration, and help the child in the acquisition of linguistic sounds. The methodology used is learning by doing, gaining knowledge through experience, also through the use of small Orff instruments.
Primary School and Secondary School
In Primary School, the musical experience involves the body and voice, with greater attention to movement and rhythmic performance through the use of Orff instruments and voice education by introducing choral singing. The goal is to stimulate listening, participation, and group collaboration through the learning by doing methodology. In Secondary School, the choral experience aims to improve listening and collaboration, valuing talents and predispositions, also through the involvement of students in various school and extracurricular events.
In the final two years of Primary School, an introductory course to musical instruments is activated, recognizing that studying a musical instrument aids hand-eye coordination and the acquisition of a correct study method by stimulating perseverance, attention, and concentration. Workshop-based teaching is fundamental, through which students have the opportunity to experience the learning process while developing increasingly refined skills.
Secondary School
In Secondary School, work continues on the awareness of using one’s body and voice as means of communication and self-expression. Furthermore, the study of the guitar or keyboard is introduced from the first year, with the aim of building an increasingly consistent and effective study method.
Using the cooperative learning methodology, the musical experience becomes an important vehicle for sharing and collaboration.
Studying an instrument increases the sense of responsibility and teaches commitment and discipline, supported by the satisfaction and pleasure of the result, promoting self-expression and improving self-esteem. Each piece is also contextualized within its historical period as a reflection of the environments and time of its creation, stimulating critical thinking and argumentation skills, and fostering the knowledge and appreciation of other cultures.
The historical-critical study of musical tradition aims to form critical thinking capable of evaluating and valuing musical cultural heritage.
