A iniciação à leitura de partituras na disciplina de formação musical no 1º ano do Curso Básico de Instrumento da Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo

: estudo de caso

Abstract

This dissertation is concerned with score reading, a skill developed during Ear Training lessons. After a bibliographic analysis about learning how to read a Study Case was started. This study lasted ten lessons of sixty minutes each and was applied to a seventh grade class at the Professional Music School of Viana do Castelo, whose students were starting to learn music. This theme was chosen because of the students’ apparent lack of ability to decode musical language. To undertake this investigation, the research was centred in the reading of texts and music scores, in order to understand if the mechanisms used in both situations are similar or not. The Study Case had a qualitative character and the analysis of the results was carried out in three different groups, which were divided according to their previous musical abilities. The final goal was to teach the students the ability to sing a melody naming its notes. The designation of the activity was “Olimpíadas da Leitura” (“Reading Olympics”) and it included several challenges. The activity was divided into different lessons according to different themes – sonorous movement, musical notes and series of notes. Some games and extra challenges were also organized to verify if the proposed aims were achieved with success. These also aimed to verify if the activity had a positive impact in the process of learning how to read music. The results showed that the different activities were fruitful for the students, giving them different challenges throughout the different activities, with positive results in the three groups being analysed. All students achieved the final goal of this case study. Nevertheless, some aspects, like dynamic applications, need improvement. This work aims to contribute to the pedagogic development of Ear Training and to the diversification of the materials available for this school subject, facing the fact that there is not much investigation in this field

Date of Award	21 Apr 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Pedro Miguel Pereira Monteiro (Supervisor)