This is the letter sent to the directors of the conservatories of Italy regarding the new ministerial decree by Minister Bruno Civello.
Protocol: no. 5908 Rome, October 4, 2010To the Directors
Music Conservatories
Equivalent Musical Institutes
THEIR OFFICES
Subject: academic years 2010/2011: new teaching regulations: D.M. no. 124 of September 30, 2009 - D.P.R. 212/2005
With ministerial decree no. 124 of September 30, 2009, the teaching regulations for first-level
study courses at Music Conservatories and Equivalent Musical Institutes have been defined.
With their issuance, the experimental phase regarding the new teaching-regulatory
framework of Institutions of higher artistic and musical education is definitively concluded; therefore, it is appropriate
to provide the necessary indications to achieve uniform behavior in managing the issues
resulting from the long transition period toward the new regulatory framework, arising from reform law 508/1999.
In this regard, it is noted that with the adoption of the new teaching regulations, it will no longer be possible, from the next
academic year, to access a training path according to the old regulation.
However, as established in paragraph 4 of art. 12 of the cited D.P.R. 212/2005, until the activation of basic musical
and choreographic training within primary and secondary education, it will be possible to modulate the educational
offer even for this segment of education. It is therefore necessary to identify teaching paths that,
although they cannot be carried out according to previous schemes, nevertheless ensure adequate preparation,
which must be certified through the verification of acquired musical skills, in order to allow
admission to the higher three-year degree.
Furthermore, it would be appropriate for the courses in question to be configured in a way that makes them consistent with
the studies carried out at musical high schools (licei musicali), which, as is known, have found their first limited implementation
from the current 2010/2011 school year.
Finally, this is an opportunity to invite the Honorable Offices to responsibly take appropriate initiatives aimed
at best organizing teaching activities that allow for the full utilization of teachers in service within the Institution,
also as a function of preparatory training for access to higher-level study courses.
The Director General
- Giorgio Bruno Civello -
This is (in my opinion) the shameful letter from Civello, who literally sees years of study by private candidates being destroyed. The 'teaser' of the letter reads at the bottom... You graduate within this year? Well, otherwise bye! I happened to speak with a teacher from the S. Cecilia conservatory, whose name I obviously cannot mention. What came out of it left me, to say the least, perplexed and stunned. He was complaining, in fact, that the courses of the new regulation for complementary harmony for pianists consisted of just 72 annual hours compared to not knowing how many hundreds in the old regulation. He also mentioned that the exam programs of the new regulation are diminished compared to those of the old regulation. To finish this paraphrase, what can be inferred from the conversation is that this new regulation will no longer produce pianists but pseudo-pianists who will have a superficial knowledge of the music world but will not have the ironclad preparation of the old graduates who boast a diploma obtained through the study of a rigorous program. Obviously, this is just my opinion; other opinions are welcome.
