A Banda Sinfônica da Escola de Música da UFMG: uma proposta para o ensino da performance musical instrumental em Minas Gerais.

Abstract

This research aims to describe the pedagogical-musical and instrumental performance approach applied in the Bands Project of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The Band is composed by students of elective classes and teacher assistants of the Bands Project which has started in 1998 at Music Hall School of UFMG in city of Belo Horizonte (MG). The project went thought four stages in which professor Anor Luciano was responsible for conceiving, coordination and conducting the three levels of the course: beginner, intermediate and advanced. The theoretical foundation practiced in the project agrees with the theories and methodologies selected for this study, videlicet: Praxial, authorship of the philosopher and musical educator Dr. David J. Elliott (1995); and Rhythm: function and accentuation, authored by Mathis Lussy (1874), inserted in the fourth chapter of his L'Traitè de L'Expression Musicale. Basically, it is an action research – when the author inserts himself into the group from its genesis – and a “Participant Observation: when the education researcher would be able to produce information and knowledge of a more effective use, including at the pedagogical level" (LAKATOS, 1991, 194). Throughout this experience It was evidenced an educational method consistent with the educational philosophies advocated by Elliott and Lussy.