La prospettiva dell’ecologia acustica nella formazione musicale

Carla Cuomo

Dipartimento delle Arti

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Contributo presentato da Giuseppina La Face

Abstract

This article considers the concepts of “Acoustic Ecology” and “Soundscape” which were developed since 1969 by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer and underlines their relevance within a musical education that promotes a balanced relationship between the human being and the environment also from the point of view of sound. The two concepts are then connected with their declinations in musicological and ethnomusicological research, in order to highlight their fruitfulness for the purposes of education in historical and cultural listening, both of music and of the soundscapes, internal and external, that they express. The aim is to promote awareness and understanding of music as culture, testimony of civilization, but also sensitivity towards silence, as a civil necessity against today’s musical pollution, as well as a space – time that favors the flourishing of thought: with the perspective of connecting education, ethics, and aesthetics.

Keywords

Acoustic ecology, Soundscape, Musical pollution, Historical and cultural listening education, Soundscape studies.

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