Music Making: A Bridge Joint of Students' Cultural and Musical Diversity

Abstract

This study deals with the importance of music making in promoting interpersonal and social ways of living together in primary and secondary school classrooms. The work focuses on the role of music teachers, laying special emphasis on their abilities to enhance the creation of significant musical experiences in the music classroom intended promote not only the learning of music, but also the development of interpersonal competences, in order to foster the positive integration of students and the recognition of their particular identities. We have considered the opinions of many prestigious Spanish and international experts on music education. The data has been qualitatively analysed. The study presents some results that show the need to use diversified practical approaches in music education today. It also offers some specific guidelines to promote the creation of educational spaces that enhance good musical practices.

phenomenon of chamberness and its incarnation in the chamber music and chamber ensemble: genre-ontological and semantic aspects

“…The existence of a fundamental unity among the vast variety of chamber music types and forms, as well as substantially similar features that allow "to unify them in a general concept", are also emphasized by other researchers (Stupel, 1970). Therefore, it should be noted that the substantive-ontological basis and carrier of this semantic unity is precisely chamberness; and mainly chamberness is one of the attributes of chamber (and chamber-ensemble) music as such (Mas & Gómez, 2012;Cornelis et al, 2010).…”