Workshops and courses

Workshops

In order to learn this modality three different levels of experiential, theoretical and practical workshops can be provided. These basic, intermediate and advanced workshops are addressed to:

  • Music therapists;
  • Music-therapy students;
  • Musicians;
  • Teachers;
  • Educators;
  • Special needs teachers.

 

Different workshops have been designed:

Musical equipment and Improvvisation

 

BUILDING OUR OWN SET OF INSTRUMENTS AND DESIGNING A MUSICAL STRUCTURE FOR THE THERAPEUTICAL IMPROVISATION

 

This workshop has the aim of giving to the learners the tools and techniques needed to build and manage the setting in an easy and simple way.

We will start by setting out some theoretical and basic knowledge, in order to establish a hypothetical configuration of a personal set of instrument and also of a customized guiding technique.

The theoretical and practical framework provided is addressed to every art therapist who already has an idea of how to use the techniques of active music-therapy. More specifically, the music therapists will benefit from it by learning how to optimize the resources used during the sessions.

FaRe ConSonanza - basic

Alecord 4 costruzione

 
The basic level workshops are designed to:

  • Allow the firsthand experience of playing music in a structurally consonant environment;
  • impart the theoretical bases that have been used;
  • Provide the elements needed to set and manage a setting in a FaRe ConSonanza environment.

The theoretical framework is developed by using knowledge of:

  • Musical anthropology;
  • Music history, musical instruments history and music-therapy;
  • Music theory;
  • Acustic;
  • Lute manufacturing;
  • Cymatic.

In practice

The learners are actively involved in group works and participate to:

  • Music improvisation sessions in groups in a FaRe ConSonanza environment;
  • The project of a facilitating instrument;
  • The construction of a musical instrument made of cheap and recycled materials;
  • The transformation of conventional instruments in facilitating ones for the purpose of adapting them to the context of a FaRe ConSonanza setting or to specific personal needs.

FaRe ConSonanza - advanced

laboratorio avanzato fare consonanza

 

The formative, experience-based FaRe ConSonanza advanced level is designed for those who already attended the basic level FaRe ConSonanza workshop.

 

The workshops are set to:

  • Impart the practical knowledge required in order to be able to easily play the harmonic instruments in an easy and functional way, even those not regularly used by the participants;
  • give the useful and necessary elements to allow the participants to handle in an easy and simple way the singular and individual sessions;
  • to learn more about the various musical languages by re-codifying them in the FaRe ConSonanza modality;
  • To create different sonic landscapes by applying the techniques that have been learnt.

The theoretical part aims to:

  • Reinforce and develop the basic studies’ contents;
  • to learn more about the various musical languages in order to make them functional in relation to the music therapy settings.

Practically, the students:

  • Will participate to the musical improvisation activities by playing different instruments;
  • they will participate to the musical improvisation sessions as an observer group;
  • they will also be actively involved in a basic-level lute manufacturing workshop.

Courses

A group production sustained and included by a harmonic framework gives an added value to the gratification of each member of that group.

Knowing how to play instruments such as the piano (or the keyboard) or the guitar, even if in an easy way, allows to harmonize and musically lead clinical and musical improvisation sessions.

 

FaRe ConSonanza is characterized by the facility of its learning process and the ease of its use; with this mindset, there have been organized:

  • Piano courses for non-pianist music-therapists
  • Guitar courses for non-guitarists music-therapists

 
The courses are thought for those who want to learn how to play, with a simple technique and without knowing music, the piano or the guitar (a modified one); they will learn how to play them in a harmonic, melodic and rhythmic way.

In order to handle the education paths in an individualized way, the lessons will be developed by alternating sessions in presence with video sessions and video conferences.

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