S ongs are part of the teaching-learning processes of the language. However, music can contribute much more, in line with the proposals of the European Music Portfolio project: A Creative Way into Languages (EMP-L). In this article, placing ourselves in the shared space between music and language, we present three illustrative activities of linguistic work that can be developed from music. Finally, we defend the importance of looking for teaching-learning formulas that integrate different types of languages, in a holistic, vivid, and motivating concept of the curriculum. L Les cançons formen part dels processos d' ensenyamentaprenentatge de la llengua. Amb tot, la música pot aportar molt més, en la línia de les propostes del projecte European Music Portfolio: A Creative Way into Languages (EMP-L). En aquest article, situant-nos en l' espai compartit entre música i llengua, presentem tres activitats il•lustratives del treball lingüístic que es pot desenvolupar a partir de la música. Finalment, defensem la importància de buscar fórmules d' ensenyament-aprenentatge que integrin els diversos tipus de llenguatges, dins d'una concepció holística, vivencial i motivadora del currículum.

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The relationship between music and mathematics has often been the subject of discussion, both inside and outside the field of education. As part of an exciting project on a European scale, the paper explores the changing contexts in Catalonia (Spain) and England (UK) in relation to the integrated approach to the teaching of music and mathematics. We analyse three areas: academic literature, the curriculum frameworks, and publications and resources prepared by and for teachers. Our findings suggest that due to the more favourable attitude towards cross-curricular approaches in education, more progress has been made in England, in terms of developing resources to support an integrated approach to the teaching of music and mathematics, than in Catalonia. Nonetheless, teachers in both locations are very interested in developing these approaches. Although there is a need for further teacher training and support, there is evidence of progress already being made in schools.

Singing individually is both a necessary activity within the music class and an essential part of the cultural activity of improvising verses through singing. In this article we show how the introduction of this activity in the educational system of Catalonia has made it possible to obtain positive results with regard to participation in singing, especially solo singing. The analysis of the data also shows how this type of singing activity has a positive effect on negative attitudes towards singing derived from western perceptions of who or who isn't competent to sing, depending on gender, age and social status.

The development of creative processes within the framework of music and dance constitutes an opportunity to promote and integrate learning from different subject areas. In these activities, the moments of knowledge transfer between the different parts of the curriculum emerge as key moments in the process. This article identifies and analyses the critical events that arise when carrying out group work based on the integrated learning of music, dance and mathematics around the concept of symmetry. For this purpose, and within an action-research framework, a 20-hour didactic sequence was designed and implemented, which focused on the creative processes followed with students in the last year of primary school (11–12 years old) at a center near Barcelona. The data obtained through classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with the students brought to light the critical events that occurred in this creative, interdisciplinary context. The results show that the use of different forms of expression and the changes that students introduce when using one or another language to express their own ideas or knowledge are key moments in the advancement of joint creative activities and also of learning in itself.