COMMUNICATING THROUGH MUSIC
COMMUNICATING THROUGH MUSIC

ASPECTS OF INTEGRATIVE AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural education, by activating a training integration process, enhances in various ways different cultures of belonging: musical culture is just one of these. Music is a very interesting language, capable of integrating diversity, create a sense of belonging and orient life projects. In the rhythms and songs there are representations very close to reality, such as those of anger and calm, strength and balance, as well as other moral qualities; this is proved by the fact that listening to certain music, because of their nature, we feel a soul transformation. In view of this, it seems clear that music can have an ascendancy on the soul's character and that is why we should bring the music to young people and educate them to it. We should never stop wondering what exactly is the content of music, this intangible reality that manifests itself only through the sound. We can not define it as something that has only a mathematical, poetic, or sensual content. In fact, it has a connection to human condition because it is written and performed by human beings who express their innermost thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. This applies to all music, regardless of the period in which the composers lived and their obvious differences in style. Bach, for example, who lived three hundred years ago, has created worlds that we, as listeners, make contemporary; the fact that music can not be put into words does not mean that it has no content that may be articulated only through sound, and any verbalization is nothing but a description of our subjective reaction to any musical composition we heard.

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