Voice and movement in circle with body percussion. Facilitation in learning observed in voice BAPNE® method and in circlesongs teaching

Abstract

The proposal of this study reported here by Elisa Pezzuto, currently post graduate student in ethnomusicology, and by Alberto Quarello, teacher and manager of the vocal department of the voice BAPNE® method inside of BAPNE® method, is about music education; this study highlights how the use of a choral activity called circlesinging can help giving, in a really short time, the comprehension of many technical factors both in vocal and musical field increasing at the same time the rapidity in learning and enhancing the attention level using specific exercises to stimulate the development of multiple intelligence on the basis of Howard Gardner theory. The scientific basis in wich this argument has been observed is provided by the direct experience of Alberto Quarello, who led many workshops about this since 2006 until now meeting and working with more than five thousand people with deeply different backgrounds. Because this study is essentially about choral didactics, it is also fundamental the contribution of the musicological and ethnomusicological research about the analysis on the development of musical intelligence.