Musical listening as a creative stimulus for children's drawing

This article presents a study that investigates the relationship between musical listening and visual creativity in students in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education. Specifically, it is investigated whether the individual listening experience in a small group (n=6) of girls and boys aged 5-6 years affects the technical and expressive characteristics of their drawing production in contrast to the same experience without music and, equally, when the characteristics of musical hearing vary. The proposed methodology is quasi-experimental, without a control group, exploratory in nature and qualitatively based. Thus, after a program of six sessions of plastic activity with individual musical listening, the evolution of each student in the drawings made is analyzed and interpreted. Finally, the findings suggest a direct relationship between the musical characteristics of the auditions and the production of resulting drawings. At the same time, it is observed how the sound experience stimulates communication and activates the visual imagination of the participants, this being a stimulus that children can verbalize in the subsequent phase of their creative activity.