Stimulation of musical intelligence in the classroom: A work of the teaching specialist of music

Abstract

The teaching specialist of music, as responsible for the student’s musical development should be aware about the importance that weighs on his shoulders when he is looking for strategies and activities that allows kids to reach the optimal development of their musical skills. This ability or Musical intelligence is part of the intelligences present in every human being, according to the proposed by the psychologist Howard Gardner in its Theory of the Multiple Intelligences. This way, in the stimulation of the musical intelligence, it is essential that the teacher has aesthetic taste to inculcate in its students the desire to be attentive and sensitive listeners to perceive the timbre elements, tunning, rhythm and melody that escape to the comprehension of any amateur ear, to this is essential to listen, beyond the esthetic stick. As Casas affirm “listening is to enter into the world of the composer world, is to recreate and to have the ability to travel through time”.