Las potencialidades del canto colectivo en el marco del emergente movimiento coral en Mallorca

Abstract

There are many references to the benefits of collective singing, beyond strictly musical ones. In this practice, a multitude of elements converge that make it a powerful element of social cohesion. In this area, the promotion of group and cooperative work, socio-affective development or the construction of one's own identity within the group. In a more individual context, collective singing also influences personal self-esteem, self-confidence, cognitive development, taste for aesthetics and culture, assimilation of mathematical concepts, history and geography, learning languages, etc. To this list of transversal elements, some even linked to disciplines very distant to the artistic side, it is possible to add the ludic component and of pleasure or personal well-being so present in rehearsals and concerts. Within the framework of the emerging choral movement that we have lived in Mallorca in the last decade, eminently formed by amateur groups and integrated by amateur singers, our study analyzes the potential of this practice from the perspective of the participants themselves, both in terms of individual benefits as well as aspects of a collective nature.