with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Commission
CLOSING EVENT - EN CHORDAIS, THESSALONIKI (GR)
Seminar The traditional music as a tool for intercultural education
The trainer’s Seminar was workshop addressed to the teachers of Primary and Secondary Education, students of the University Departments of Education and Music Studies and generally to educators, in order to utilize and highlight the outcomes and the experience of the project MORE.
In the First Session (charged to En Chordais) was presented the educational program “Exploring a sea of music”, a program with modular structure that exploits and highlights the common musical heritage of the Mediterranean. The program aims to bring children into contact with the multicultural musical environment of the Mediterranean, showing the interactions of great cultures that flourished in this region.
The program does not address strictly to the students of music. Approaching the music in the social and cultural context, it aims to contribute to a general musical education and culture of all the students by promoting the recognition of diversity, empathy, positive attitude towards the peaceful coexistence and creative interaction between people and cultures.
The theoretical context of the program is interdisciplinary and it is about ethnic music of the intercultural education using the principles of learning and the teaching methodology of the modern educational practice. Combing the aesthetic and humanistic approach of the intercultural music education, promotes the understanding of themselves though the understanding of the others.
The First Session was developed and instructed by Katerina Lazaridou, Drossos Koutsokostas and Nikolaos Terpsiadis
Some of the material used in the First Session is available here, to be used only for educational purposes:
Audio game
The worksheet: PDF
The musical pieces: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cryptex
The worksheet: PDF
Presentation: Exploring a sea of music (pt1, pt2, pt3)
In the Second Session (charged to the Cité de la Musique) Philippe Martins presented in a very interesting experiential way instruments of the Indonesian musical tradition indicating the way that functions intercultural education in the workshops of the Cité de la musique.
Music is an educational tool that promotes the diversity in the field of interpersonal relations, and demands that someone can share and have additional skills to achieve a collective result. Moreover, within the discovery of foreign traditions, the music encourages the diversity in a cultural level.
Deriving from the musical traditions of Indonesia (Java and Bali), this workshop shows that music can be the means of educating the children by sharing music and cultural diversity. From an early age, expiring that another culture deals with the musical sense, they learn to compare it with their own, have fun with the variations of the universal principles and eventually to enter in it.
Through the rhythmic playing of kecak from Bali, the vocal impersonations of musical structures of gamelan from Java and demonstration of their ownership in the contemporary creation of the West, the workshop gives to the teachers additional tools for dealing with their students.
The Second Session was developed and instructed by Philippe Martins.
Some of the material used in the Second Session is available here, to be used only for educational purposes:
Image file:
The Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Audio files:
Sekar Gadung Naik Cikoa
Kecak-The Monkey Chant
Kecak-A 16-beat melody
Video files:
Gamelan-Romain Roland
Sound painting extracts part 1
Sound painting extracts part 2
Sound painting extracts part 3
In the Third Session (charged to the Sibelius Academy) Arja Kastinen presented in a very eloquent way an issue related to the ancient Finnish instrument Kantele, entitled “Improvisation and the boundless Kantele”.
The ancient Baltic – Finnish music tradition is interwoven with creativity, orality, improvisation and variation. The music instrument Kantele, which belongs to the Psalters of Baltic, is an integral part of the ancient music culture and continues to exist in the contemporary world by taking countless forms in a flexible way.
Combining the knowledge of ancient music tradition, musical instruments, techniques of playing, tuning systems and an internal ideology of music culture offer rich sources and varied potentials for the music education. Improvisation helps the individual to find their own voice and trusts their own creative ability. It helps in learning of understanding the equality through the manifold. Kantele, as a music instrument, is simple enough giving to everyone the opportunity to enjoy their music but also offers advanced features so that someone can go it as far as their technique and aesthetic limitations allow them.
The Third Session was developed and instructed by Arja Kastinen.
Some of the material used in the Second Session is available here, to be used only for educational purposes:
Presentation:
Improvisation and the boundless Kantele
Educational material
In the framework of the educational aspect of MORE project and as extension of the Trainers’ Seminar, we created some indicative educational material based on an intercultural educational approach. This material is offered to be used by teachers, music teachers and educators generally of primary, secondary and post-secondary education. We would appreciate if you would send us your comments and possible material resulting from the implementation of the suggested activities in production@enmusic.gr.
Click here to see and download the educational material.