O aquecimento corporal e vocal

: o impacto da utilização de um site com exercícios vocais na autonomia dos alunos no âmbito da disciplina de canto e coro

Abstract

This report, accomplished in the context of the Master's Degree in Music Teaching, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa of the Masters in Music Teaching, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto, intends to show the learning accomplished during the Professional Practice (PP), in the areas of expertise of singing and choral ensemble class, as well as all the research related to the implementation and assessment of the Pedagogical Intervention Project (PIP) entitled “Body and vocal warm-up: The impact of a website with vocal exercises on the autonomy of students in the context of singing and choir discipline”. Professional practice took place in the academic year 2021/22, at the Conservatório Regional do Algarve Maria Campina, where the PIP was also implemented. During the Professional Practice it was detected that the students did not know how to do the body and vocal warm-up independently, nor were they aware of its importance for a better vocal performance. A website was created through the WIX.com platform, as a digital resource with body and vocal warm-up exercises and technical exercises to support the study of the pieces. This website, according to the testimonies collected in informal interviews with the students who constituted the sample, contributed to a more effective and attentive study of singing at home, which resulted in an improvement in autonomy and vocal evolution, in the experimental group, in the respective singing and choir lessons. For this pedagogical intervention project, a workshop was created on vocal and body warm-up and a brief presentation of the site and its functionality to the experimental group. The impact of using the website as a teaching and learning strategy in the discipline of singing and choir is the object of study of this Pedagogical Intervention Project (PIP) which was implemented at the Conservatório Regional do Algarve Maria Campina, during the 2nd period of academic year 2021/2022. Nine students participated in this investigation (5th, 7th grade and open course), aged between fifteen and twenty. Four of these students attended the open course and complementary courses in singing, and five were part of the choir. Some students who attended the singing course also participated in choir classes Choral singing. The research consisted of a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the digital resource in pedagogical practice, through the use of the website, with warm-up exercises as a support to warm up the voice before practicing singing and making it a daily routine. Informal interviews were carried out, as well as direct observation as an instrument and technique for production and data collection applied to the group of students under study. The results obtained from this investigation showed the impact of the use of digital tools in the practice of warming up.

Date of Award	17 Jul 2023
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Sofia Serra (Supervisor)