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Music Education in Italy: What is Going On

The state of music education in the Italian school system has undergone a rapid evolution in the last ten years. Indeed, up until the end of the 1970s it was almost completely absent from the curriculum at all grade levels. In addition, when it appeared at all, it was given an extremely marginal role, relegated exclusively to the function of recreation and ’spiritual enlightenment’. Fortunately, much has changed, and the changes seen today reflect both a greater presence of music education in the schools, and a newer and richer definition of the contents of the discipline and of its function within a global educational programme. Music is now recognized as being capable of playing a major role in the development and formation of the individual, and it is for this purpose that it has been included in the school curriculum up to the eighth grade (from ages 3 to 13). The idea has always been widespread in Italy that the study of music and, more generally, musical experience, should be limited only to those who intend to pursue a professional career as musicians. Today, on the contrary, we are well