Комиксът като възможност в музикалното израстване
Comics as an option for teaching music

Summary/Abstract: The article broaches some of the practices of using comics as an element of teaching music at schools in Bulgaria. One of them is given in the book Histoire de la musique en bandes dessinees (1989) by Deyries Bernard, Denis Lemery, Michael Sadler. Giving the main figures and styles, the book excels in a very serious treatment of the history of music, which however presets its faults: it offers too much information, long and difficult to read headlines and lack of a storyline. The second one is the Fortissimo at Lessons programme, the notebook of which includes 9 comic stories for 9 instruments on 9 pages by 9 authors. The notebook does not exist just for the sake of it, but is a final stage in a course and though relieved from exhaustiveness, it offers a glossary of a kind. Every page features an individual story and could be rearranged at will. The illustrations are made by different artists in different manners. The third book, Tales of The Magic Flute (2013) is also available with a CD of music pieces. It apparently relies on our preset disposition to Mozart and to his The Magic Flute, which makes a luxurious printing product, but stakes mostly on Penko Gelev’s illustrations. The pictures live their own life independently not only from the text, but also from Mozart. All the above cases succeed in combining educational ambitions with adequate entertaining adaptations for the young without compromising on quality.

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