The music workshop is a time of awakening and awareness to the sound environment of the child, to instruments from here and elsewhere and to different music backgrounds (classical, jazz, modern, from other countries …)
OBJECTIVES:
- The learning process of listening and concentration
- Awakening of the children to music (rhythm, sound, intensity) and to different varieties of music
- Discovery of instruments (handling, listening, writing work …)
- Music production
- Communication and sharing in small groups
MEANS:
- Music listening, listening to what surrounds us
- Instruments handling, instruments listening
- Rhythmic and musical games
- Dances
- Songs, sound productions
WHAT IS A TYPICAL MUSIC WORKSHOP LIKE?
Duration: 20 to 30 minutes- Installation, discussion, song or nursery rhyme
- Concentration, explanation of the session’s proceeding
- Waking of the body and the voice
- Listening to the theme
- Production compared to the theme
- Songs, soft music listening
TOPICS:
- The pace
- The intensity
- The tone
- Work on a specific music
- Instruments
- Different musical styles
PROJECTS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO EACH GROUP
Children aged 2 to 4:
- Discover everything that makes music
- Listening to all kinds of music
- Learning to follow a rhythm
- Learning to manipulate instruments
- Learning to listen, to focus
Children aged 4 to 6:
- Discover music from all around the world
- Listening to music and building of a history in relation to music
- Use of instruments
- Know the music scale
- Discover the different families of instruments
…and for all: learn to love music and to tame it.