SCRITTI

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PUBBLICAZIONI

La   Vertuosa   Compagnia   de’   Musici   di   Roma

AVERTISSEMENT

Questo breve saggio nasce dall’idea di analizzare una parte della storia della viola da gamba mettendo in luce quello che è stato il suo ruolo nella società, cercando di comprendere come la vita di uno strumento, il suo sviluppo e declino  sia stato influenzato da fattori che toccano a volte solo marginalmente gli aspetti musicali.........  leggi tuttto

MUSIC, EMERGENCE AND

PEDAGOGICAL PROCESS

Music presents features typical of complex systems, whether for the multiple aspects it contains or the type of connection

it establishes between systems that are seemingly far apart in terms of context, problematic and local characteristics.

Actually, in music it is detected the necessary persistence and coexistence of contrasting or apparently irreconcilable

elements whose interaction gives rise to what we call “beauty”; this can be more accurately defined, by way of complexity,

as an emergent property of artistic production.  In this sense, music can help us to redefine “cognitive paths” in virtue of its

profound ability to represent and make emergent cognitive processes. Perception, representation, abstraction, creativity

and non-linearity are, among the emergent properties of the music-system, those which are most consistent with the

process of learning. A didactics of music based on complexity as methodological point of reference shapes the pedagogical

process as an interaction in which teacher and student are involved in a reciprocal relationship. From the superposition of

their roles in real experience and from the relational aspects, a form of self-defined learning process arises taking on the

character of emergent property of the system......... read more