This initiative compiles and amplifies the lessons learned throughout two implementation cycles of The School of Listening (2023-24 and 2024-25) to bring them to a more specific field: musical listening to pieces from the written tradition. This concern arises from a shared interest between the Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures (CMUS) and the Cultural Corporation of the University of Santiago de Chile in generating musical mediation strategies aimed at school teachers, allowing them to approach so-called “classical music” with technical, accessible, and playful resources. Faced with the diversity of artistic mediation initiatives that draw on and are nourished by contemporary visual arts, we identified a relative gap in the field of musical arts mediation, especially regarding classical or written-tradition music. This teaching manual seeks to strengthen pedagogical tools to bring students closer to music, understanding it as a comprehensive practice that engages the senses, social reflection, and creative participation.
This teaching manual, focused on traditional written music, seeks to offer pedagogical resources for musical mediation through activities that foster sensitive experimentation, cultural and identity reflection, and collaborative creation among students. Although it was designed as educational material to accompany the 2025 season of Educational Concerts organized by the Department of Outreach and the Cultural Corporation of the University of Santiago de Chile, it can be used independently in various pedagogical contexts.
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The School of Listening — Teaching Manual