Music Education, Issue 18 (2008)

Contents:

1) Gregoria-Maria Androulaki, Maria Gerosimou, Elenitsa Georgiou, Clio Papadia, and Vasiliki Psira: "The War of the Lost Slipper" A musical-pedagogical performance for children (ages 8 -11)

2) Agelika Slavik & Eleni Loura: "Sweeping the traces of prejudice ..."

3) May Kokkidou & Eirini Laski: Musical-Drama Performance for World Languages

4) Maria Dimitrakopoulou: Teaching the basic elements of musical form and motif

Abstracts:

1) Gregoria-Maria Androulaki, Maria Gerosimou, Elenitsa Georgiou, Clio Papadia, and Vasiliki Psira
"The War of the Lost Slipper" A musical-pedagogical performance for children (ages 8 -11)

In the present article we will share our experience regarding the creation of an interactive musical - pedagogical performance. This task was rather complex as we aimed to combine music and artistic - drama elements with musical pedagogical activities through interactive participation of the audience (children). We shall present you the course of our work from the birth of the initial idea till the implementation of our project.

2) Agelika Slavik & Eleni Loura
«Sweeping the traces of prejudice ...»

Using as a material the story of Zorz Sari "The Boom" we have built an activity which tries to touch our interior social fears and prejudice. The social symbol of a boom and furthermore the profession of cleaner challenges us to trace the different roles which are taking place in our daylife and brings us to face stereotyped reactions and thoughts. All the above mentioned are being approached through the use of Orff Schulwerk system tools. Individually, or working as a team we are dealing with object's transformations, we are improvising on rhythmical and movement creations and we are working on speech and melody.

3) May Kokkidou & Eirini Laski
Musical-Drama Performance for World Languages

The European Day of Languages is held annually on the 26 September and it aims to alert the public to the importance of language learning, to increase awareness and appreciation of all languages, and to encourage lifelong language learning. The European Day of Languages offered us the starting point for the planning of a school musical-drama performance. In this project, we focused on world languages as well on other communication systems (Morse code, Sign language - finger spelling, Braille system - a method that is used by blind people to read and write, Fryctories - system of communication with fire from torches). This particular project is addressing to learners of 5th and 6th grade of Elementary School and it is designed such as to ensure the participation of the whole class.

4) Maria Dimitrakopoulou
Teaching the basic elements of musical form and motif

The present article deals with teaching the concepts of musical form and musical motif. The proposed teaching plans are suitable for secondary education. The author presents some basic theoretical information and suggests a set of suitable exercises.