Music is a natural part of each individual's life. It is a fact that music promotes the conditions for the development of creativity and also multiplies the individual's potentialities. Creativity, an innate human potential that each individual possesses and has the right/duty to develop, is now recognized as a priceless resource for the whole society. At this juncture, we are reminded that the human potential is limitless and precious. Nowadays, as people find themselves in the middle of a serious collective crisis, they find themselves exposed to new and unprecedented emotional experiences and pressed by looming threats in the present society. This musical work on music composition is considered an appealing open project because of its formative nature and various applications: it develops a creative pedagogy which doesn't transmit a static culture, but rather provides new thinking processes and new interaction modalities.
This musical experience has the goal of using a “creative” teaching/learning process that contributes to the individual’s global education. The author of this chapter introduces a report of educational experiences of music composition with pupils in Primary School where, through socio-constructivist learning, the students acquire new ways of reading and writing music and begin to elaborate a different score for new and original musical compositions, written, composed, and performed directly by children. AbstractMusic composition may be used as a tool for the development of creative thinking it can be considered an “exercise of imagination,” and it can offer new operative ways to develop interdisciplinary processes and to promote communicative, cognitive, cultural, aesthetic, and emotional functions.