Meaningful musical engagement : the potential impact of generative music systems on learning experiences

In order to create music, the student must establish a relationship with the musical materials. In this thesis, I examine the capacity of a generative music system called jam2jam to offer individuals a virtual musical play-space to explore. I outline the development of an iteration of software development named jam2jam blue and the evolution of a games-like user interface in the research design that jointly revealed the nature of this musical exploration. The findings suggest that the jam2jam blue interface provided an expressive gestural instrument to jam and experience musicmaking. By using the computer as an instrument, participants in this study were given access to meaningful musical experiences in both solo and ensemble situations and the researcher is allowed a view of their development of a relationship with the musical materials from the perspective of the individual participants. Through an iterative software development methodology, pedagogy and experience design were created simultaneously. The research reveals the potential for the jam2jam software to be used as a reflective tool for feedback and assessment purposes. The power of access to ensemble music making is realised though the participants’ virtual experiences which are brought into their physical space by sharing their experience with others. It is suggested that this interaction creates an environment conducive to self-initiated learning in which music is the language of interaction. The research concludes that the development of a relationship between the explorer and the musical materials is subject to the collaborative nature of the interaction through which the music is experienced.

Voar até ao comboio dos segredos: a construção de significados partilhados no desenvolvimento do pensamento musical em crianças do 1º ciclo do EB

O presente trabalho pretende ser uma contribuição para o estudo do desenvolvimento do pensamento musical em crianças do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Este tema foi analisado a partir dos processos através dos quais as crianças constroem significados quando estão envolvidas em atividades relacionadas com a composição musical. Esta análise foi produzida a partir de três eixos teóricos fundamentais: A corrente enativa do embodiment, a teoria das emoções e sentimentos de António Damásio, e a Psicologia Cultural. O projeto foi desenvolvido a partir de um estudo longitudinal em que a professora/investigadora, através de vários ciclos de investigação-ação acompanhou o percurso de 72 crianças entre o seu primeiro e terceiro ano de escolaridade, numa escola do 1º Ciclo do Norte de Portugal Os dados foram obtidos a partir da observação participante em sala de aula, notas de campo, gravações áudio e vídeo, conversas exploratórias e diálogos, um questionário/reflexão e self-reports. A análise e interpretação dos dados sugere que atividades relacionadas com a composição musical em pequenos e grandes grupos, quando abordada a partir de temas intimamente ligados aos mundos das crianças, se pode transformar numa plataforma de diálogo baseada em processos emocionais profundos onde as crianças encontram inúmeras oportunidades não só para desenvolver o seu pensamento musical, como também para reconstruir as suas identidades musicais, pessoais e sociais.

Corporeidade e educação: sinfonia de saberes na educação musical

This study investigates the implications between the musical theory and pedagogical practice based on a study that questions the reasons why some students feel incapable of learning the music language, as well as, if the musical codes are truly so difficult to be apprehended by them. To answer these questions takes itself as reference, the classes I have minister while teaching the disciplines: Music Workshop and Music Language I in the Art Department, Scenic Art Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. I have searched the knowledge that constitutes the teacher formation based on the union between the pedagogical efficiency and sensibility, searching in the Corporality the theoretical port for my investigation. This way, advocating is a methodological principle for musical education originated from the experience of knowledge: creating, playing, feeling, thinking, and the interaction among them, conducting the students not only to music learning, but to a process of human formation. It adopts itself as methodological resource, amongst the qualitative methods, some of the techniques that are associated with the ethnographic research, for having as its main objective, to study the meaning of the actions and events of the investigated group. The analysis of the data leads to the conclusion that when the teacher displays his or her pedagogical knowledge in an environment constructed with affectivity, in a playful and pleasant form, the assimilation and construction of the musical concepts happen naturally and efficiently, surpassing the taboo that music learning is only possible to the especially well endowed people for music. Very aware that the scientific debate is important for the strengthening of formative programs involved in the growth and consolidation of the musical teaching and learning area, it is expected to promote this research discussions and reflections in the general educational field with this research, as well as, to contribute significantly to the specific growth of musical education

As orquestras invadem as salas de estar: redefinição dos padrões e espaços para a escuta musical no Rio de Janeiro (1926-1931)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a series of technical innovations have been commercially and widespread on some urban groups everyday, in Brazil. Some of these technological innovations have played an important role in large-scale distribution of artistic works, which until then had an extremely limited potential for diffusion. Development of devices that can record and play music has been mechanically inserted into this logic, while the gramophones, phonographs, cylinders and discs became popular. By this time a new moment for production and consumption of music had started. Especially since the begging of electrical system for registration and production of sounds, this process bought important meaning to the way some peoples in Rio would leasing and sense music, besides it had contributed substantially to changes in the spatial references of these individuals

Propostas para superação da combinatória na organização do discurso musical

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Rumos da análise musical no Brasil: análise estilística 1919-84

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Notas de testemunho e recalque: uma experiência musical dos traumas sociais brasileiros em Chico Buarque e Paulinho da Viola (de meados da década de 1960 a meados da década de 1970)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Para fazer chorar as pedras: o gênero musical guarânia no Brasil, décadas de 1940/50

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Pau e lata para uma educação musical: uma partitura de vidas

The field of experience and reflection in this dissertation is the Pau and Lata: Artisticpedagogical project and its activities in the field of music education It was created in 1996, by the Community School Sementes da Luz, located on Tabuleiro do Martins district, Maceió / AL. The work extended to the Rio Grande do Norte and later returned to Alagoas, keeping their activities in both states, involving approximately 280 people. The issues that moved us front the experience of Pau e Lata were: What are the main references and theoretical-methodological elements that constitute the formation of the musician in Pau e Lata? How members perceive this project and include themselves in the educational process of music formation? How it works and what is the meaning of the use of instruments and the learning of musical writing and reading? These questions lead us to undertake this dissertation, in order to deepen reflection on the processes of musical training on Pau e Lata, relating the experiences of its members in the process and the theoretical references governing their educational practice. In this sense, we outline the research objectives, which are: describe the Pau e Lata project, focusing on their context of action and their methodological processes; investigate the relationship between the effective participation of its members in the process of composition of the artistic and pedagogical repertoire and its performance in the field of cultural militancy in the environment where it operates. The writing process of this research is based on the phenomenological perspective. Therefore constitute our methodological research path two roads that communicate: 1) the organization and description of historical record of Pau e Lata (supporting documents, certificates, posters, etc.) and memories of the researcher and from other members of the group. 2) the formation of focal groups and writing and sending, via online, testimonials the participants of Pau and Lata relating to issues scrap and onomatopoeia, respectively. Participated in this process 11 components, adding the presence of the researcher, with the age between 21-45 years, all members of Pau e Lata, Core UFRN. The results of this research are focused on the discussion of three axes that describe and guide the work of the Pau e Lata: collective work, the use of the scrap as instrument and the onomatopoeia as base of a methodological process of musical training. This score was composed of three parts. The first part is presented from a collection of references from Pau e Lata, composed of printed and videographic records. The second part refers to the instrument used by Pau e Lata, and the perception of group members on these instruments, which occurs so that they are integrated in the training of the musician.The third axis tells how and what it means learning of music writing and reading, that occurs in two related aspects: the teaching-learning process and the body as a musical element in this process, associated with other actions characterized as studies and theoretical deepening

Sobre música portuguesa para viola d’arco no séc. XX: a influência de François Broos (1903-2002) na criação musical em Portugal

A presente dissertação procura explorar a figura que foi François Broos. Contactando alguns antigos colegas e alunos, procurou-se retratar de forma fidedigna o seu percurso pessoal e profissional, e de que forma a sua vinda para Portugal terá alterado o panorama nacional violetístico, tanto a nível educacional, como artístico. Procurou-se abordar, também, as relações pessoais e profissionais que estabeleceu, tanto no Porto como em Lisboa, com figuras de referência da música em Portugal. Assim, fez-se um breve itinerário pela produção musical para viola no século XX e, de igual forma, uma lista das obras de compositores portugueses para viola e piano ou viola e orquestra, de 1900 a 2000, de forma a verificar se, de facto, houve algum crescimento na produção nacional na música para viola desde que François Broos se instalou em Portugal, e indicar quantas dessas obras lhe terão sido dedicadas. Na segunda parte desta dissertação, e no seguimento do ponto acima mencionado, foram escolhidas duas obras de grande relevância no repertório português para viola, ambas dedicadas ao professor Broos, para serem analisadas do ponto de vista artístico, valorizando os aspetos técnicos da performance, através das respetivas gravações disponíveis.

Meaning in movement : a gestural design game

This paper describes a design game that we called 'Meaning in Movement'. The purpose was to explore notions of professional dental practice with dental practioners in terms of gestures, actions and movements. The game represents a first step towards involving gestures, actions and movements in a design dialog with practioners for the purpose of designing future interactive systems which are more appropriate to the type of skilful actions and richly structured environments of dentists and dental assistants.

Third-sector discourses and the future of (un)employment : skilled labor, new technologies, and the meaning of work

In this paper we analyse a 600,000 word corpus comprised of policy statements produced within supranational, national, state and local legislatures about the nature and causes of(un)employment. We identify significant rhetorical and discursive features deployed by third sector (un)employment policy authors that function to extend their legislative grasp to encompass the most intimate aspects of human association.