Singing canons represent an extremely rich and interesting starting point for the development of music didactics, due to their historically known features of circularity and repetitiveness, their potential to be a socializing and cohesive element in group dynamics, their being relatively easy to memorize and their melodic and harmonic development and structure. Many collections and books present canons and rounds in which the singing of a canon comes with body percussion. What is actually missing today is a consolidated use of canons together with body percussion, in which the latter is not only intended as an accompaniment to the voice, but also fully appreciated in its biomechanical aspects and overall potential as far as cognitive and socio-emotional developments are concerned. This paper, using BAPNE method, aims at gradually improving and enhancing the involvement and the attention levels and strengthening short- and long-term memory, as well as concentration.
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