Build Your Music (A proposal of activity in the classroom of music in secondary emerged from the paradigm of investigation-action)

Abstract

In the current educational system, musical composition is contemplated in the final section of Conservatory studies, after many years of technical-instrumental and theoretical training. On the other hand, if we visit a Plastic Education Classroom of an Institute, we can see the secondary students expressing themselves, channeling their creativity through colors, forms and volumes, without prejudice, with a minimum and, in most cases , Very simple background of previous know-how. It is clear that these are two completely different arts, it is also well known and repeated to the sake of the abstract nature of music. But so and so? Is it possible to arbitrate a way of approaching music from within, from the practice of musical composition in a direct and simple way, without the need for a higher level musical formation, in a similar way as the Creative activity in plastic education? Will it be possible to complement this practice with the subsequent interpretation of the compositions and the criticism of the productions of others of the same level? The questions are not, of course, new: already the great musical pedagogues of the first quarter of the century were posed and resolved each in its own way. The following communication intends to present the results of an investigation in the Music Room, made by the author during the last four years, which starts from an original proposal in this sense.