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Music shapes Europe

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-FR01-KA219-037155
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 113,090 EUR

Music shapes Europe

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During the period of two years, 70 students from five European countries worked together on the project entitle 'Music Shapes Europe'. These students have had the chance to display their talent and creativity while familiarizing themselves with their own folk music, as well as finding out about their partners‘ heritage of folk music and language via their created project website www.https://mseur.wordpress.com/, common rehearsals, discussions, creative group work and live performances in multinational teams.During the first year, students in each country, worked in groups, chose the national songs that would be sung during the concerts (4 by country)and created a project website, in which they uploaded:- their profiles - a glossary of everyday sentences in their mother tongue - videos of sketches displaying these sentences - the scores, lyrics and videos of the songs that would be sung during the concerts The uploaded materials were reviewed and discussed by all partner schools.Each group learnt their 4 national songs as well as 4 songs from their partners (1 per country) : these song were rehearsed to perform internationally at the final year mobility - concert in Spain. Language teachers helped their students with pronunciation of the lyrics of the partners songs, and workshops were organized by Italian, Spanish and French teams to introduce their partners with the particularities of their language, phonetically speaking (sounds, rhythm and stress). At the end of this mobility, the students performed their first concert, each team singing 3 of their songs on their own and one with their partners (so 5 songs were sung in international groups). Europass mobility tool was used to validate the outcomes.To achieve a more sophisticated project result – to sing as many songs altogether as possible - a transnational meeting was held at the beginning of the second year,in Slovakia. During this meeting Music and English teachers from all partner schools worked on all the songs of the projects. Each national group taught their songs and their pronunciation to the other groups. During the meeting, the teachers also decided to improve the quality of the final concert by involving the musicians of the Italian school orchestra. Each music teacher decided on the songs that would be accompanied by the orchestra and sent the scores for the different instruments provided by the Italian school. After this meeting, teachers were able to teach all the international songs to their students. The second year was thus devoted to the learning of international songs. The students met on a second occasion in Denmark to attend workshops on Danish and Slovak language, as well as to perform a second concert during which they sang their national songs and 10 songs altogether. Once again, Europass mobility tool was used to validate the outcomes.The students met for the third and last time in Italy to perform the final concert, which was the outcome of the two-year-project and was recorded for the final product. Students sang only 5 songs in national teams and 15 songs altogether, thus reflecting the evolution of their work.Throughout the two years, we had an artistic contest to choose the best logo The logos from all partners were uploaded on the website and the teachers at the initial teachers‘ meeting in France voted for the best one, which became the project logo. Groups of IT students worked on and prepared the videos . Each concert was recorded and uploaded, so that it is possible to see the evolution and improvement of the quality of the work. Students also edited videos of each mobility .Their full videos can be watched on the project website as well as in the DVD released by the Italian school .Students with their teachers also went to the concerts of folk music or met the folk singers. Ours students are to become active European citizens, and Europe is rich of many different cultures. We strongly believe it is important for them to discover other cultures, to be curious of their neighbours, to accept differences as a strength. Thus, through a common theme, folk music, our young European citizens fostered creativity, co-operation,communication, usage of ICT , foreign languages, which are crucial skills in modern society. Teachers were also fostered to use and exchange innovative teaching methods (parts of CLIL), especially in preparing and carrying out international teaching/learning activities and the workshop; teachers of Music, IT, foreign languages and headmasters successfully cooperated among themselves and with their own students, with colleagues and students from abroa

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