Uma compreensão da experiência com música através da crítica das duas 'filosofias' da educação musical

A partir da compreensão da historicidade de duas teorias sobre os fundamentos da Educação Musical (EM) – a Filosofia da Educação Musical (FEM) e a Nova Filosofia da Educação Musical (NFEM) – a tese busca tensionar e ampliar as concepções sobre a natureza da experiência com música, polarizadas entre as duas ‘filosofias’ como educação estética e como atividade procedural. A crítica se dá quanto à pretensão de projeto das ‘filosofias’, que pretendem fixar uma natureza para a experiência musical e justificar sua inclusão nos currículos escolares, a partir de pressupostos cognitivistas. Embora apresentem-se em uma oposição entre uma concepção ‘de educação da sensibilidade estética’ (FEM) e outra praxial (NFEM), a historicidade que as constitui revela em ambas as ‘filosofias’ a influência de pelo menos três idéias sobre a experiência musical: a metáfora das “formas sonoras em movimento” (Hanslick, 1989); a analogia com a linguagem, do ponto de vista da comunicabilidade de significados e do ponto de vista do “análogo formal da vida afetiva” (Langer, 1980); a “multidimensionalidade”, surgida nas ‘filosofias’ a partir da influência da teoria do significado musical (Meyer, 1956, 1967). Estas três idéias constituem a base dos ideais pedagógicos das ‘filosofias’ analisadas e produzem diferentes efeitos em cada uma delas, provocando a polaridade entre produto musical e processo musical e entre audição e performance.

A apreciação musical infantil: aspectos da constituição da infância contemporânea no discurso de crianças do Ensino Fundamental

Music can be found in peculiar historical and social context with distinct functions, such as religious rituals, ethic-esthetic education of subjects, therapeutic elements, critic and maintenance of established patterns, among others. Considered as language, music acts on dialogue dimensions of the body, the senses, the affectionate-cognitive and of social interactions. Their uses reveal the social forces that cross the culture and constitution of subjectivities. The attribution of senses by the subjects to musical production reveals the cultural voices in dialogue, that circumscribe determined social places to them. Our aim in this work is to investigate the child musical appreciation, with children about 7 to 9 years old, and, by attributing uses and senses to music, unveil the voices that settle the places intended and assumed by infancy in contemporaneity The child constructs its musical appreciation through cultural access and mediation, possible by circulation in several socializing groups like family, school, church, infant groups, community groups and, more recently, publicity and media These last two spheres, enabled by the development of the technological means of communication, contributed to the dissemination of the set of consume ideas and for the emergence of the cultural industry, characteristic of the capitalistic production way in its present configuration. They develop new possibilities of perception of the world, in which the limits between childhood and adulthood are not anymore the same that have been established in previous centuries. So, the child musical appreciation is constituted by homogeneity regarding the senses built and disseminated by cultural industry and by the logical merchandizing, and singularities, associated to the construction of senses in interaction with global, local, and multiple contexts, through which the subject circulates and constitutes himself polyphonically

A contemplação estética como ideal do nirvana búdico

Pós-graduação em Filosofia - FFC

Discussões sobre o minimalismo musical norte-americano: processos, repetição e tecnologia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Os fundamentos da interpretação musical: aplicabilidade nos 12 estudos para violão de Francisco Mignone

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Ampliando o repertório do coro infanto-juvenil: um estudo de repertório inserido numa nova estética

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Aspectos formais da trilha musical de Yasunori Mitsuda para o game Chrono Cross e sua interação com o enredo

This work has the aim of evince compositional tools used in the development of musical scores for role-playing videogames through the analysis of Yasunori Mitsuda’s music for Chrono Cross (1999). This research is divided in two main parts: the first traces a historic path of the RPG genre on videogame consoles, since its birth as a tabletop game in the decade of 1970 until its consolidation on 3D game machines released in the 1990’s. The focus of this historical study concentrates on the aesthetics of this kind of game and on the multiple relations it settles with sound throughout the years. The second part is an analytical work on an assortment of pieces by Mitsuda for the aforementioned game, bringing up the most interesting aspects of the connections established between these compositions and the whole game.

Ambiência monástica e prática litúrgico-musical pós-tridentinas no mosteiro de S. Bento de Cástris

Abstract In the current historiographical production there is a manifest interest for the history of female religiosity. The mystic phenomenon, the everyday life and the temporal dimension of the communities, in terms of familiar and social connection to the outside of cloistered spaces, manifestations of creativity and culture, are increasingly treated issues. This interest is also expressed about the Cistercian Order in Portugal. In the female branch, the monastery of St. Benedict of Cástris, officially Cistercian for more than 700 years, has been the target of an interdisciplinary approach that intents to appreciate the impact of the reflections of the Council of Trent in the musical praxis of the nuns. This community, subject to Alcobaça and controlled through Visitors, registers in its documentation not only the presence of nuns that sang and played various instruments, arising mainly from Évora region, a city with a recognized musical tradition, but also registers various expenses related with the musical practice of the monastery. Resumo Regista-se, na actual produção historiográfica, um interesse manifesto pela história da religiosidade feminina. O fenómeno místico, o viver quotidiano e a dimensão temporal das comunidades, em termos de ligação familiar e social ao exterior dos espaços-clausura, as manifestações de criatividade e cultura, são questões cada vez mais tratadas. Esse interesse manifesta-se também para a Ordem de Cister em Portugal, sendo que, no ramo feminino, o mosteiro de S. Bento de Cástris, oficialmente cisterciense há mais de 700 anos, vem sendo alvo de uma abordagem multidisciplinar que procura apreciar os reflexos do Concílio de Trento na praxis musical das religiosas. Esta comunidade, sujeita a Alcobaça e por ela controlada através dos Visitadores, regista na sua documentação não só a presença de religiosas cantoras e tangedoras de vários instrumentos, oriundas maioritariamente da região de Évora, cidade com uma tradição musical reconhecida, como diversas despesas relacionadas com a prática musical do mosteiro.

Do Espírito do Lugar - Música, Estética, Silêncio, Espaço, Luz I e II Residências Cistercienses de São Bento de Cástris (2013, 2014).

As Residências Cistercienses em S. Bento de Cástris que se vêm realizando desde 2013 têm como primeiro objectivo reinventar na contemporaneidade a densidade histórica do discurso cisterciense, integrando a realidade deste mosteiro tanto numa ampla geografia da Ordem de Cister em Portugal e na Europa, como na história da região e do país. Inspiradas nas questões da História, da Arte, da Arquitectura, da Música, do Património e da Paisagem, as Residências Cistercienses em Cástris vêm apostando no debate de questões actuais ligadas aos espaços monásticos e ao seu futuro, nomeadamente os cistercienses. Esta aposta concretiza-se também no presente trabalho, DO ESPÍRITO DO LUGAR. ESTÉTICA. SILÊNCIO, ESPAÇO, LUZ, resultado das I e II Residências Cistercienses (2013 e 2014), e integra estudos que se reportam especialmente ao Silêncio e às suas várias linguagens e significados e às dimensões da Estética monástico-religiosa, com algum privilégio para as temáticas da Música. A apropriação do mosteiro pelo silêncio e pela música e a apreciação do espólio musical e instrumental de S. Bento de Cástris permitem uma melhor percepção das diversidades conjunturais e dos seus ritmos, aliando-se às dimensões de valorização patrimonial, eacompanhando-as de sugestões estéticas na pintura, escultura, pintura mural, azulejaria…, no sentido da fruição plena dos espaços. A riqueza deste evento, a Residência Cisterciense no mosteiro de S. Bento de Cástris, permitirá que o futuro deste património, de tanta diversidade e espessura histórico-cultural, continue a ser debatido e a justificar edições futuras resultantes dos trabalhos de investigação aí apresentados e debatidos.

A questão interpretativa no contexto de Cister no testemunho do Manuscrito Musical 32 do Arquivo Distrital de Évora

O Manuscrito Musical 32 do Arquivo Distrital de Évora, com a sigla P-EVad 32, é um códice constituído praticamente por monodia, para além de alguns breves acrescentos polifónicos. Inclui todavia algumas instruções de execução musical, essencialmente na sua parte final, que nos levam ao encontro da questão de execução instrumental. O presente texto pretende dar uma panorâmica da prática instrumental através do testemunho do Manuscrito Musical 32, cujas anotações posteriormente acrescentadas revelam a sua adaptação a novos critérios estilísticos, um dos quais é a presença cada vez mais acentuada dos instrumentos musicais na liturgia. O códice constitui-se assim como um conjunto de dados sobre a música no espaço cisterciense de S. Bento de Cástris durante praticamente trezentos anos da sua história, revelando também muitos dos segredos que circundam os aspectos teórico-práticos da execução instrumental.

Generation in context : an exploratory method for musical enquiry

This paper discusses a method, Generation in Context, for interrogating theories of music analysis and music perception. Given an analytic theory, the method consists of creating a generative process that implements the theory in reverse. Instead of using the theory to create analyses from scores, the theory is used to generate scores from analyses. Subjective evaluation of the quality of the musical output provides a mechanism for testing the theory in a contextually robust fashion. The method is exploratory, meaning that in addition to testing extant theories it provides a general mechanism for generating new theoretical insights. We outline our initial explorations in the use of generative processes for music research, and we discuss how generative processes provide evidence as to the veracity of theories about how music is experienced, with insights into how these theories may be improved and, concurrently, provide new techniques for music creation. We conclude that Generation in Context will help reveal new perspectives on our understanding of music.

Eco-structure data forms : classification of data analysis using perceived design affordances for musical outcomes

This paper explores a method of comparative analysis and classification of data through perceived design affordances. Included is discussion about the musical potential of data forms that are derived through eco-structural analysis of musical features inherent in audio recordings of natural sounds. A system of classification of these forms is proposed based on their structural contours. The classifications include four primitive types; steady, iterative, unstable and impulse. The classification extends previous taxonomies used to describe the gestural morphology of sound. The methods presented are used to provide compositional support for eco-structuralism.

Changing musical emotion : a computational rule system for modifying score and performance

When communicating emotion in music, composers and performers encode their expressive intentions through the control of basic musical features such as: pitch, loudness, timbre, mode, and articulation. The extent to which emotion can be controlled through the systematic manipulation of these features has not been fully examined. In this paper we present CMERS, a Computational Music Emotion Rule System for the control of perceived musical emotion that modifies features at the levels of score and performance in real-time. CMERS performance was evaluated in two rounds of perceptual testing. In experiment I, 20 participants continuously rated the perceived emotion of 15 music samples generated by CMERS. Three music works, each with five emotional variations were used (normal, happy, sad, angry, and tender). The intended emotion by CMERS was correctly identified 78% of the time, with significant shifts in valence and arousal also recorded, regardless of the works’ original emotion.

View from a bridge : what makes a musical city

The attention paid by the British music press in 1976 to the release of The Saints first single “I’m Stranded” was the trigger for a commercial and academic interest in the Brisbane music scene which still has significant energy. In 2007, Brisbane was identifed by Billboard Magazine as a “hot spot” of independent music. A place to watch. Someone turned a torch on this town, had a quick look, moved on. But this town has always had music in it. Some of it made by me. So, I’m taking this connection of mine, and working it into a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. I will be interviewing a number of Brisbane musicians. These interviews have begun, and will continue to be be conducted in 2011/2012. I will ask questions and pursue memories that will encompass family, teenage years, siblings, the suburbs, the city, venues, television and radio; but then widen to welcome the river, the hills and mountains, foes and friends, beliefs and death. The wider research will be a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. It will explore the changing nature of their work practices over time and will consider the notion, among other factors, of ‘place’ in both their creative practice and their creative output. It will also examine how the presence of the practitioners and their work is seen to contribute to the cultural life of the city and the creative lives of its citizens into the future. This paper offers an analysis of this last notion: how does this city see its music-makers? In addition to the interviews, over 300 Brisbane musicians were surveyed in September 2009 as part of a QUT-initiated recorded music event (BIGJAM). Their responses will inform the production of this paper.