Professor e perfomer

: uma conjunção didática

Abstract

The violin teacher is in its essence, a musician and artist, whose competences and responsibilities before his students are not limited to the classroom. A violin teacher, who thrives to be an orienting figure for his students, will become a link between them and the stage, creating situations that can help to optimize and consolidate the fundaments taught in the classroom. With the objective of broadening these fundaments towards a spectrum of public performance, the violin teacher will become an artistic role-model for his students via concert performing on the stage, and an interpretative role-model via his illustrations with the instrument in the classroom. The objective of this dissertation is to measure the influence and relevance deriving from the teacher´s own stage proficiency, in the motivation of his students for the study of the instrument. Towards this goal, a quantitative methodology was selected by using closed-answer questionnaires sent to 41 violin students from the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave. The data was then processed in a quantitative method using the SPSS 20 data-analysis software. The data analysis shows that the violin students put a great deal of importance in their teachers’ active artistic lives, and also their instrumental proficiency in the classroom. The students expect that the teacher will use his own stage experience towards guiding them to better face the different variables which make up a public presentation. Therefore, the teacher who keeps his essence as a performing musician, may increment the students motivation for the study of the violin, by becoming a model figure as a stage artist.

Date of Award	19 Dec 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Sofia Inês Ribeiro Lourenço da Fonseca (Supervisor)