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The Escuela de Música y Declamación, founded in 1874 by the government of the province of Buenos Aires, was the first official experience of institutionalization of the teaching of music in Argentina. Scarcely explored by historiography, this establishment was the subject of numerous government debates at a time when the critical situation of the public finances and the country's institutional instability called into question the areas and scopes of state intervention. Despite its brief duration, the existence of the school and its creation make it possible to analyze the process of building the State and defining its competences as well as the importance and functions attributed to the arts in the context of national modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work intended to assess whether performing artistic activities influence Creativity. To this end, 301 children aged 8-14 years were assessed. Creativity was studied from a multicomponent assessment, by means of diverse techniques (i.e., sociograms, tests and scales) and different informants (i.e., peers, parents and the child himself/herself). The results consistently indicated that children who perform artistic activities obtained higher scores in Creativity assessed by: the creation of drawings (figural test of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking), parental assessment and the child's creative personality self-assessment (Creative personality scale hetero and auto-evaluation version, Garaigordobil, 2004) and peer assessment (Garaigordobil's Sociogram "Creative peer", 2004). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]