The presentation of this publication by Professor Olivia Concha will be in charge of the renowned French pedagogue, François Delalande, one of the main architects of the current renewal of musical pedagogy oriented towards a creative practice from early childhood.

As part of the activities of the 2014th season of the International School of Guest Professors XNUMX -which will take place at the Institute of Music of the Pontificia Universidad Católica with the presence of the prominent French scientist and educator, François Delalande-, the professor and researcher Olivia Concha Molinari, will present the second edition of her book “El Párvulo, el Sonido y la Música”, from the Universidad de La Serena Editorial.

The presentation of this book, which will take place on Friday, July 25 at noon in the Ercilla Room of the National Library, in Santiago, will be in charge of François Delalande himself, who is responsible for theoretical research of the "Groupe de Recherches Musicales" of Paris and studies listening behaviors and sound production, in particular, of the child. 

The musical approach of "El Párvulo, el Sonido y la Música", considers the traditional -dancing, singing, playing- but also proposes a pre-structured alternative by focusing the initial practice from the physical matter sound and its counterpart silence, as axes that will lead the child and the accompanying adult to discover the mechanisms that transform a spontaneous sound game into “music”, into “his music”. Experimenting and knowing the raw and pre-existing material of music, stimulating research in children, discovering the origin of sound as a physical process, scrutinizing the causes that originate it, observing the effects that they perceive, "listening to silence" , the experience is playfully problematized, clearing up unknowns raised by themselves or suggested by the adult.

Olivia Concha, who worked as an academic in the Music Department of the University of La Serena (1985 / 2011), is a Chilean pianist and researcher, with a degree in Piano and a graduate of Musical Didactics from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Milan, Italy. Much of her research work has been dedicated to the area of ​​Early Childhood and Music (Infancy Schools, Reggio Emilia, Italy). She is an honorary member of the Chilean Society of Musicology (2000) and integrates the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Human Sciences "Espacio y Tiempo" (University of Seville). In the year 2000, she received the Music Medal (Chilean Music Council) for her contribution to Music Education and in 2013 she is named a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts.

Delalande's second visit to Chile

On his second visit to Chile, François Delalande, one of the main architects of the current renewal of musical pedagogy oriented towards a creative practice from early childhood, will give five conferences with the aim of exchanging ideas on the topic of the inclusion of a significant strip of Arts and Music in the training of kindergarten educators, with the ultimate goal of recognizing the right of all children to develop their potential and musical and artistic intelligence from Early Childhood.

To the conferences "Ontogenesis of musical behaviors", "Birth of music", "From exploration to sound invention" and "The toddler and music", which will be held from July 22 to 30 at the Institute of Music from the PUC, students and teachers from different Early Childhood Education careers in Santiago have been invited. The renowned French educator will also hold various meetings with academics from different universities in the country, representatives of MINEDUC and JUNJI.

In 2011, together with the Italian composer E. Pappalardo, Delalande conducted nine broadcasts on Vatican Radio, called “Composition is child's play”, which included examples from Italian and French schoolchildren. A year later, he was scientific director of the International Congress "The musical creation of children and adolescents in the digital age" always on Vatican Radio, Rome.

Professor Olivia Concha listened, through the Internet, to the nine radio programs in 2011 and thought about holding an Experimental Workshop (2012) with four Music Education teachers from La Serena, Rodrigo Castillo, Gustavo Araya, Rolando Correa and Felipe Moreno. , which worked on improvisations and musical creations with digital media, following guidelines and experiments already rehearsed by them during their training in the Music Education Pedagogy career at ULS.

As a result of the good and interesting results obtained with children from 5 years old and university students from La Serena, the Workshop sent its application to the Vatican Radio Congress (October 2012), which was finally accepted. Professor F. Moreno and Olivia Concha traveled and participated on behalf of the Workshop, who brought letters of invitation to Delalande to travel to Chile, from ULS authorities, from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and from the Institute of Music of the PUC.

This is how Delalande was able to visit Santiago and La Serena (2013), cities where he gave lectures and participated in two colloquiums. At ULS, she had the opportunity to hold meetings and give a talk at the Music Department.