I have often wondered how human relationships would change if instead ofwords we used the language of music, sounds: I speak to you by playingan instrument and you respond to me by playing another. This image doesnot arise in me from a romantic idea of music, but from the knowledgeand experience gained in the field for many years with boys and girlsfrom 0 to 6 years old, in which I was able to see how musical languageis the most early means that puts human beings in a position to expressthemselves and communicate, even before the acquisition of verballanguage. In fact, we know that music affects three great humandimensions, the emotional one, the relational one and the expressive one.What moves music, in our mind and in our body?Music is identifying, because despite receiving the same stimulus, eachof us can imagine what we want, interpret and think in our own way, butat the same time music helps and facilitates socialization. In fact, themore one interprets an everyday life that includes the affectivity ofrelationships, extending to collective feelings, such as popular music,the more it satisfies the need to seek the universality of certainfeelings. It is as if that synthesis between the I and the us occurredin a natural way, in which "I see myself through others and free myfeelings". If we match music to movement, through rhythm, we canexperience the simultaneity between thought and action and in theperception of our rhythm, we find valid help in the creation of storiesand theatrical scripts. From here, by analyzing the temporal sequences,to be respected in precise cadenced sentences, we can also replacevisual images to tell a story. The musical sequences that follow oneanother in a necessary time, one after the other, become the framewithin which lies the story that we can invent. In this way the musicbecomes the common thread that flows like the plot of the story. Musicinvests space, giving us the pleasure of expanding, prolonging astimulus that materializes in the feeling of the body and through thebody. Voice also allows us to expand our presence in space.Each music suggests a different way of moving in space, "in time. Evenin the shyest children, music guides and encourages movement. And it notonly facilitates expressiveness, but also the logical ability to orientoneself in space.Therefore, active music and not simply listening to be enjoyedpassively. Music to be experienced firsthand, which comes to life fromthe body in movement. This is the first connection: music and movement.The small child, when he produces a sound, beating on the drum orblowing into a flute, or shaking bells, spontaneously accompanies thesound with the movement of the whole body, activating a rhythm whichintensifies the sound, because it imparts more strength into the beatingor blowing. In this way of making music, young children remember anancient way of socializing between human beings, kept alive by thetradition of popular music and folklore. But music, as alreadymentioned, is also connected to the articulated language of narration:music, like a story, develops over time but does not precede it.It flows continuously, but no sentence of a sequence can be skipped oraccelerated, otherwise its meaning will be lost. Like "telling stories",music also supports the enrichment of the expressive abilities of verballanguage. Words are filled with meaning, with that gap between realityand vision, exactly like in poetry. Older children, around the age offive, can begin to learn the ability to associate music with poems bydeveloping a sensitivity in them that leads them to choose music inrelation to the meaning of the poetic text. But even single words canrecall a color and a sound. Respect for a temporal dimension that allowsus to understand, reflect and process, to listen and imagine, to thinkand act. All this is facilitated by the use of music in school.http://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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