Modern popular music is worldwide spread and it is developing rapidly. Therefore it is important for the music teachers to react to this fact. They should offer students the possibility to find their bearings in the great amount of newly developing popular music and also in the new expressive means of music. Of course, this can be done through lectures and suited listening, but I argue that both these activities should be accompanied by learning-by-doing musical activity, because it gives the students the opportunity of practicing the new information and of understanding it in context. My thesis therefore focuses on this issue. It deals with the possibilities of implementing group music performance using the expressive means of modern popular music in music education. It could also be used as a set of practical advices for creating suitable music arrangements for students. The author defines key terms, most important of which are undoubtedly the concept of modern popular music and defining the group of students. The second chapter lists suitable instruments and their description. It focuses on instruments suitable for participating in the rhythmic section. We use some of the Orff instruments as well as some other user-friendly instruments. The third chapter deals with playing in a group in music...

[pt] Nesta tese, proponho uma discussão sobre o trabalho de Rogério Duprat como arranjador de canções tropicalistas e sobre o modo como alguns de seus arranjos musicais dialogam com as palavras cantadas com as quais eles foram gravados no final dos anos 1960. Combinação de sons orquestrais, de clichês da música de cinema e de efeitos sonoros variados, os arranjos de Duprat conferem um caráter sonoplástico às gravações tropicalistas. Experiente compositor de música serial, eletroacústica e para computador, assim como de jingles e de trilhas sonoras para o teatro e o cinema, Duprat valeu-se de amplos conhecimentos da música de concerto europeia e da música popular do Brasil para fazer referências em seus arranjos a diversas obras e estilos musicais. Como um artífice, procurou compreender e responder às demandas dos compositores de canção, dos cantores, do produtor da gravadora, dos técnicos de gravação e de outros profissionais que acabaram por se tornar coautores de seus arranjos. Arranjos que também foram produzidos sob influência de agentes como John Cage, The Beatles, os poetas concretos e os compositores, regentes e instrumentistas do Música Nova, grupo paulistano de vanguarda de onde saíram Duprat e os demais arranjadores de canções tropicalistas. / [en] In this dissertation, I examine the work of Rogério Duprat as arranger for tropicalista songs and the way some of his musical arrangements dialog with the melodized words with which they were recorded in the late 1960s. As a mix of orchestral sounds, film music cliches, and sound effects, Duprat s arrangements give an audiovisual character to tropicalista recordings. As an experienced composer of serial, electroacoustic, computer, and advertising music, as well as theater and cinema soundtracks, Duprat employed his broad knowledge of Western concert music and Brazilian popular music in order to make audio references to diverse works and music styles interwoven into his arrangements. As a craftsman, he sought to understand and to answer the demands from song composers, singers, the record company producer, recording technicians, and other professionals that became collaborators of his arrangements. His arrangements were also influenced by agents such as John Cage, The Beatles, the concrete poets, and the composers, conductors and musicians of Música Nova, a São Paulo avant-garde group that was integrated by Duprat and the other arrangers for tropicalista songs.