28516 - Music Pedagogy (LM)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students will acquire and develop the basis of Pedagogics and Didactics of Music, privileging the Didactics of listening and comprehension of music.

Course contents

The course aims to involve the students to the basis of Pedagogics and Didactics of Music, privileging the Didactics of listening. It is articulated in two parts, corresponding to two modules. The first module involves theoretical issues, the second consists of practical exercises related to Didactics of listening.

Readings/Bibliography

About basis of Pedagogics and Didactics of music

1. From La musica tra conoscere e fare, Atti del convegno, Bologna 16-17 maggio 2008, ed. by G. La Face Bianconi and A. Scalfaro, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2011, the followuing papers:

▪ G. La Face, La musica e le insidie delle antinomie;

▪ M. Baldacci, Curricoli e competenze;

▪ L. Bianconi, Superstizioni pedagogico-musicali. La storia desaparecida;

▪ B. Martini, C. Cuomo e M.R. De Luca, Trasposizione didattica del sapere musicale: aspetti di contenuto e di metodo;

▪ B. Martini, La didattica dell’ascolto. Una lettura didattico-disciplinare.

2.the following paper from Educazione musicale e Formazione, Conference Proceedings (Bologna 12-14 maggio 2005), ed. by G. La Face Bianconi and F. Frabboni, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2008:

▪ G. La Face Bianconi, Il cammino dell'Educazione musicale: vicoli chiusi e strade maestre;

from the same book, one of the following papers:

▪ L. Bianconi, La forma musicale come scuola dei sentimenti;

▪ R. Pozzi, Il compositore come educatore. La prospettiva pedagogica nei musicisti del Novecento;

▪ A. Serravezza, L'educazione estetica alla musica;

 

About the historical methods of Didactics of music

3. From A. Scalfaro, Storia dell’educazione musicale nella scuola italiana. Dall’Unità ai giorni nostri, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2014, part. II: pp. 163-231.

 

About Didactics of listening

4. G. La Face Bianconi, La Didattica dell'ascolto, in «Musica e Storia», XIV, 2006, n. 3, pp. 511-541.

5. G. La Face Bianconi, Saperi essenziali e conoscenze significative: il "Largo concertato" nel "Macbeth" di Giuseppe Verdi, in La didattica del melodramma, ed. by G. Pagannone, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2010, pp. 145-173.

6. G. La Face Bianconi, Didattica dell'ascolto: "indizi" e lettura della musica, in «Pedagogia più Didattica», n. 3, 2011, pp. 53-60.

About music for education of European citizen

7. G. La Face Bianconi – L. Bianconi, Il mandato intellettuale dei musicologi nella costruzione della cittadinanza europea, «Musica Docta. Rivista digitale di Pedagogia e Didattica della musica», III, 2013, pp. 1-5.

https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/4046/3496

8. C. Cuomo – M. R. De Luca, La trasposizione del sapere musicale nella formazione intellettuale, «Musica Docta. Rivista digitale di Pedagogia e Didattica della musica», III, 2013, pp. 17-38. https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/4023/3474

9. R. Pozzi, Educare alla complessità. Il ruolo della musica d’arte contemporanea, «Musica Docta. Rivista digitale di Pedagogia e Didattica della musica», Transmission of Musical Knowledge: Constructing a European Citizenship, Special Issue, 2014, pp. 67-73.
https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/4308/3758

Lecture notes are available in the Copy center “Harpo”, via Barberia 9, Bologna.

N.B. Students devoid of the basis of general pedagogy, will obtain them reading M. Baldacci, Trattato di pedagogia generale (Roma, Carocci, 2012), the following parts:

• Introduzione (pp. 9-14).
• First part – from chapter 1 Il sapere pedagogico, only paragraph 3, La pedagogia come scienza dell’educazione, pp. 29-38.
• Second part – from chapter 4 La regione pedagogica e il concetto formale di educazione, entire paragraph 2, Il concetto formale di educazione, pp. 66-80, and entire paragraph 4, I concetti empirici delle scienze dell’educazione: trasmissione culturale e apprendimento, pp. 90-138.

Teaching methods

Lectures, listening laboratories and practical exercises.

Assessment methods

To pass the examination, students shall:

1) report on the Bibliography above;

2) present and discuss a written 'Unità di Apprendimento' (three folders) for students of Primary or Secondary School to it, level I or II. 

The students find an example of 'Unità di Apprendimento' on the Teaching Material website.

3) report on two concerts or show of art music they have recently attended: they are required to sit the examination bringing the concert programs. To pass this test, students shall: historically contextualize the songs; describe the overall structure or focus only one part (e.g. Sonata, Symphony, or individual movements); critically evaluate the execution: in this regard, they are invited to carefully prepare the listening from a structural, formal and historical-critical point of view before the concert.

DAMS/Music students attending Musical Pedagogy, who have completed the practical exercises and obtained the relevant certificate, will be exempted from point 2.

It will be assessed as excellent/good the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, the originality of the reflection as well as the familiarity with the tolls for analysing the Musical Pedagogy. It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, not articulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of the Musical Pedagogy. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the Musical Pedagogy. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyse the Musical Pedagogy.

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