School textbooks, didactic material and a new approach in music teaching in Catalonia with the opening of the school of musical pedagogy - Ireneu Segarra method

Abstract

The School of Musical Pedagogy¿Ireneu Segarra Method (EPM-MIS) was mainly founded to teach the methodology designed by Ireneu Segarra in the early 1970s in Catalonia. This institute published school textbooks and specific didactic material on the method to be used in different years during what was then known as General Basic Education within the framework of the Spanish General Education Act. This article aims to delve into and highlight the contribution made from the method promoted by the EPM-MIS and the published school textbooks and original and specific didactic material, both in constructing a new approach to music teaching in Catalonia and in promoting and enhancing Catalan identity and culture in the 1970s and 80s.