Learning areas in Elemental Music Education Andrea Sangiorgio

a map
Movement - Dance - Body
Voice
psycho-motricity
Creativity body awareness voice training:
folk dances / structured dances posture, breathing, vocalizing
imitation ↔ invention timbre: voice sounds, onomatopeic sounds,
improvvisation ↔ composition creative movement
movement activities / games with various goals timbrical motives, imagery and sound
freedom ↔ constraint speaking voice: rhymes, poems, texts, rap,
rules active listening through movement
movement as a preparation to instrumental technique syllable systems, chants, rhythm patterns
problem-solving singing voice:
phases of the creative process body percussion
melodies, songs, repertoires, tonal patterns
creative groups: working in small groups voice and movement: singing/chanting and dancing

Psycho-social area
Instruments
playing and learning
emotion, motivation the instrument as an extension of the mind
expression, communication approaches to instruments
personal and human growth instrumental technique
Activities
interpersonal relationships, group dynamics timbre: sound effects, imagery and sound
socialization, cooperation, sinergy, interaction rhythm / melody / harmony with instruments
music education as a means to foster personality instrumental music, repertoires
values and ethics of elemental music education voice / movement / instrumental action
tonal and rhythm patterns on the instruments

Interdisciplinary integrations Development of the musical mind

global learning music cognition, audiation (Music Learning Theory - E.Gordon)
use of imagery Process and product use of tonal and rhythm patterns
literature, theater skill and content learning sequences
stories, tales, plots… Experience and outcomes listening / producing / reading / writing vocabularies
visual arts Gestaltung - Performance music literacy: approaches to different types of notation
history, geography, other disciplinar areas Performance as a form of music parameters
music as culture (ethnomusicology, communication and assessement metacognition: awareness of one’s own learning processes and
anthropology of music) strategies
cognition, emotion, motivation in music