Dorela
The Dorela program got its name from the notes Do, Re, La.
The original idea was to have music for everyone. Anyone can create a musical composition without the need for years of training in music theory.
In fact what I did was to remove the math from the music and keep only the colors and the imagination.
Dorella is a music composition and creation program in which the adolescent patient learns to compose his own music, stocked with four colors, red, blue, green and brown. Using these colors can show the dynamics of sound, rhythm, size and writing density of notes.
To capture the dynamics of sound, it is enough to know that he uses the color green to write slowly, blue for the almost slow, brown for the almost loud and red for the loud.
The colors can be used sequentially depending on the musical desire of the creator.
For example, if the teenager wants to start a song slowly and end up loud with a steady increase in volume, then he should write the first notes in green, which is slow, the next in blue, for almost, continue with brown for almost as loud as possible and finish the piece with red, which is as loud as possible.
Rhythm is another very important piece in music. So if the teen wants to write a note that lasts longer, then he should write a large dot, while if he wants to write a shorter note in duration, then he should write a smaller dot.
The longer the note, the longer it lasts and the shorter the faster.
The pauses of the music, the sound gaps between the notes are marked with small or large intervals between the notes.
For example, if the composer wants the music to be interrupted during the song, then he should leave a gap in his writing as well. The larger the gap, the greater the pause of the sound.
More specifically, without giving any instructions from the above, we give the teen-patient a stave and ask him to place random dots on it, without having any knowledge of music.
We mention that there is no right or wrong and that the composition concerns only the child and the musician, who should then produce the musical result of the composition.
Slowly and as the teenager writes new pieces of music in each lesson, all the elements I mentioned above are gradually added, ie the variety of sound colors, the rhythm, the pauses.
We soon begin to describe images with our music. The project that we are constantly working on is for the children to compose images from the 4 seasons of the year.
At this point in the program, children create one or more images from each time of year.
We write the image with the title above the stave and the child describes it musically.
The musician immediately plays the composition and the child has the option to add or remove anything in order to get closer to the desired sound effect.
The Dorela program was implemented for the first time as a pilot in October 2018 in collaboration with the clinical psychologist and scientific director Yiannis Dinos and the Hellenic Cancer Society.
It has been held in the hostel of Floga, (Association of parents of children with neoplastic diseases) and in the Oncology Unit for Children-Elpida.
Make a donation
If you like the project and you feel like helping children, please donate online and make a difference.