MUSIC AND ARTS HELPING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Many are the researches that demonstrate the way Arts and the artistic teaching act in the individuals’ psychic, physic, socio-cultural, mental and aesthetic development. More specifically, in relation to the musical setting, research carried out by A. Storr, J. Sloboda, H. Gardner, L. Meyer, among others, report the ordinance character of this language, the link it sets up with the human body, its sensitizing effect, the emotional and aesthetic experience it shelters. This investigative work brings to this art meaning and function which transcends the purely aesthetic character that it contemplates, setting itself up as a language which is integrated to the other ones, capable of contributing in a beneficial way to the individuals’ integral evolution. Thus, the inclusion of the musical teaching in the basic education, in the courses of qualification for teachers, and in the informal education under different proposals and conditions becomes a healthful measure for the human evolution.