(Important: for more information, for the guidelines on the App e for tutorials, visit www.sharedlistening.com)
- Organize music listening experiences from nursery school, kindergarden to elementary school and at home!
- The songs suggested in the application have been selected and classified according to musical parameters: it encourages an interested listening because the app combines the musics on the basis of diversity and contrast; (IMPORTANT: the App just suggests songs titles selected and classified. To listen to the songs you should download by selected Itunes links or through internet free sources)
- Very large variety of songs suggested: from classical to jazz, from rock to folk music from every corner of the world;
- Tips on using, support to educators and teachers, information on training activities of reference.
Based on a great deal of research, Lets Listen is designed to help adults, teachers, educators, parents and musicians, to discover music with their children and students, creating shared listening pathways consisting of short and, for the most part, without words, tracks.
Music of every age, style, part of the world, whose titles are suggested and organized, according to the principles of variety and contrast, in Shared Listening Pathways that can ben offered in the nursery school, in the kindergarten, in the elementary school of Childhood, or, even, at home .
The app contains more than 270 titles of songs, from classical to jazz, rock and world music, and instructions and suggestions for the implementation of activities.
The Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon, theoretical basis of this App, showed that variety and quality of the listening music experience in childhood, are fundamental to help child make sense of the music and develope informal musical skills: singing in tune, rhythm feeling, audiation.
Shared Listening Pathways for children are also the content of the training activities for teachers and educators realized by Audiation Institute and IEGAM (Italian association and brazilian Institute for music learning based on the Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon).