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Mirror neurons and singing ...
"In the minds of others" mirror neurons and social behavior
Author: Giacomo Rizzolatti (author), Lisa Vozza (author)
publisher: Zanichelli; 2nd edition (January 1, 2020)
Language: Italian
flexible cover: 160 pages
"Taking into account these unpublished mechanisms can be useful for developing innovative methods for the teaching of music and artistic subjects" taken from "In the mind of others"
Giacomo Rizzolatti
You know when they ask you the fateful question about singing: "But how long have you singing?"
Here when they ask me I always stay a little displaced because quantifying time implies a beginning and I am not part of the category of those who have "always responded with safety!".
As a child I admit that I had a strong curiosity towards the voice, but not immediately for singing and teaching.
I remember that at the age of 7/8 I perfectly imitated the "jingle" of everything I felt: radio commercials, television advertising and even the announcements of the trains to the stations.
I knew them all and the more the stamps were distant from my farthest I enjoyed "swelling" the voice to be able to imitate them.
Obviously growing my range of imitations was expanded by introducing the imitations of friends or relatives and I generally debuted for family dinners.
While my cousins went up to the chair to recite the poetry, or the Christmas song, I had my entrance on the scene with the imitation of the grandmother complete with a handkerchief wrapped around the garment to make the performance even more captivating. My true workhorse was "Giacomino", a friend of my father, very thin but with a voice that seemed to me much bigger than his size as a child.
Growing up I approached singing and his world of emotions passively, about during the middle school period.
How did the free singing come about?
It all started when my sister, older than me a few years old, began to take singing lessons from a teacher in Milan.
Living in the suburbs, I remember that on Saturday it was left soon and often I put myself in the car with my father who accompanied her to the lesson, just to make "the ride".
Arrived at the destination one day I asked if I could stay listening to the lesson for pure curiosity.
The classroom was very large and the lesson took place on a stage.
I got off to a row of chairs as a single spectator, I listened but I didn't understand much of what they technically said.
I intrigued me that world of teaching of the singing and so the times I got into the car became more and more, until I started to bring a notebook where every now and then I designed and occasionally wrote about the notes of the lesson.
Mirror neurons in the study of singing
Before taking a microphone in hand and expressing my emotions through singing, at least 3 or 4 years passed.
In first superior I had created a school radio project in registered podcasts, where I told of emerging albums and artists who participated in the local festival or found in the world of the web.
From there I threw myself forming a school pop-rock band where I was the main voice. I had never approached the teaching of singing but every now and then they jumped me the memories of those notes unconsciously taken to my sister's lessons.
To date I am sure that the stimulus and curiosity for singing, wanting to know more about it have had as fuse just that barshorn notebook, bringing me into the journey of discovering singing, teaching and emotions that I still walk.
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