Caminhos para composição musical coletiva: processos educativos através da educação musical

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to understand and describe the educational processes that occurred during a practice of collective musical composition that happened at a regular school. This practice was stimulated and is the result of a Musical that occurred every year at this school, the consequence of interdisciplinary experiences and activities directing all learnings for a specific theme. All these student learnings provided the creation of a musical composition shown at an open concert. The bibliography has authors who corroborate the perspective that these interactions can be called social practices, and these relationships result from educational processes. Other authors who comprehend music education from a humanizing perspective also were studied. Like the name of this paper already suggests, were proposed activities of musical education that aims to enable the participants, kids of six and seven years, trail paths to compose a song collectively, without having necessary previous musical knowledge. This proposal was developed through activities of musical creation, perception, playful musical games, improvisations, appreciation of different musical styles, interpretations and active listening to songs, expression activities, conversation circles, and collective creation of the lyrics. This study verified that the work of collective musical composition involved educational processes related to coexistence, listening to others, collectivity, expressiveness, interpersonal relationships, and interdisciplinary work. It is noteworthy to claim that this monograph brings main results about musical education for the school context.