This treatise has been prepared largely because of an increasing interest in contemporary music and an awareness on the part of many music educators of its merits in the curriculum of public schools and colleges. Since contemporary music is a controversial subject among directors, it has become necessary to search for specific, positive approaches to the teaching of contemporary music in high school.

The purpose of this study was to investigate, through stylistic analysis, the choral problems in twelve selected choruses from George Frederick Handel's oratorio, Messiah. The twelve choruses were selected for analysis in this study after consultation with several authorities in the field of choral music and on the basis that they are representative of problems encountered in the remaining choruses. Each of the twelve choruses was analyzed individually. Chapter I of this study presents the purpose of the study, the sub-problems involved, definitions of terms, delimitations, the basic hypothesis of the study, the basic assumptions of the study, methodology and the plan of the report. Chapter II of this study contains a brief biographical sketch of Handel, a discussion of the circumstances surrounding the composition of Messiah, and a survey of the Handelian oratorio Chorus. Chapter III presents the results of the analysis relevant to a discussion of each of the twelve choruses followed by a sectional presentation of the choral problems. In Chapter IV, a summary, some conclusions and recommendations are offered. Appendices A and B present reviews of selected recordings and vocal-piano editions of Messiah respectively.

Esta dissertação pretende apresentar um histórico contextualizado e comentado de trabalho de coro infantil realizado em Milão, na Itália, com o Coro Curumim da Associação Cultural Cantosospeso, entre 1993 e 2003, assim como um estudo sobre as estratégias lúdicas utilizadas e a concepção de seu repertório multicultural de canções. Ressaltando a importância dessas estratégias lúdicas, tanto para o trabalho mais técnico, voltado aos modos de cantar tal repertório, como para a compreensão sociocultural do cantar e do fazer musical em geral, sobretudo no âmbito que circunscreve a concepção musical e sociocultural de cada povo contemplado nas canções que compreendem o cancioneiro empregado e das próprias crianças envolvidas, pretendeu-se contribuir para o desenvolvimento da área de canto coral infantil e, por que não dizer, da educação musical, e compartilhar com regentes corais, educadores musicais e estudantes de música, principalmente, uma experiência que consideramos formadora e transformadora. / This dissertation aims to provide a contextualized, commented history of a children\'s choir work performed in Milan, Italy, with the Curumim Choir, a group of Cantosospeso Cultural Association, between 1993 and 2003, as well as a study on the ludic strategies used and the design of its multicultural songs repertoire. Underscoring the importance of these ludic strategies for both the more technical work, focused on ways to sing this repertoire, and the sociocultural understanding of singing and music making in general, especially in the context that circumscribes both the musical and the sociocultural conception of every people contemplated in the songs that comprise both the repertoire employed and the children involved, it is intended to contribute to the development of the children\'s choir area, why not say, music education, and share with choir directors, music educators and music students, mainly, an experiment we consider formative and transformative.

This dissertation focuses on the psychological asepcts of non-professional choral singing, especially on the relationship between non-professional choral singing and well-being. At the theoretical part of the dissertation, choral singing and well-being are defined. There are also introduced selected concepts and contexts of well-being. The theoretical part of the dissertation concentrates primarily on the relationship between non-professional choral singing and well-being. There are, therefore, discussed researches dealing with the benefits of choral singing, motivation for choral singing and choral singing negatives. The theoretical part of the dissertation also deals with the other aspects of choral singing (characterics of a choral singer), social factors of choral singing and measuring of benefits of choral singing. The empirical part of the dissertation consists of two parts. In the I. part of the research (quantitative nature), the demonstration of the relationship between non-professional choral singing and well-being was tested. Choral singers (n = 148) were thererefore compared with the control group of non-singers in the level of well-being and experienced stress. The measuring was repeated with choral singers (n = 72) after one year. In the II. part of the research (qualitative nature),...

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Forskning visar hur musiken inverkar på människans totala välbefinnande och kapacitet. Det finns studier som påvisar samband mellan musik och prestation och statistiskt sett har musikklasser bättre studieresultat än andra klasser. I denna studie har undersökts hur gymnasieelever själva upplever körsången i skolan, och rent specifikt om körsången kan påverka deras totala studieprestation. Undersökningen fokuserar kring att få en djupare inblick i hur dessa elever ser att deras egen personliga utveckling hänger samman med körsången i skolan. Vilka egenskaper och förmågor utvecklar körsången? Detta har sedan kopplats till rådande forskning om motivation, prestation och framgång. Är det så att körsången bidrar till att höja elevens totala studieprestation? Resultatet visar att körsången har ett flertal effekter, varav flera kan anses vara prestationsgrundande. På ett översiktligt plan upplevs körsången som meningsfull, och ansvarstagandet är därför högt. Körsången stimulerar både mentalt och fysiskt, och genererar positiva emotioner vilket bidrar till tillfredsställelse och välbefinnande. Körsången uppfyller flera behov såsom behov av trygghet, gemenskap och uppskattning, vilket anses vara förutsättningar för att känna motivation till att prestera. Om detta sammantaget påverkar elevens studieresultat totalt sett är svårt att påvisa, men då körsången genererar sådana egenskaper som genomsyrar en elevs totala karaktär och attityd, är det rimligt att påstå att så kan vara fallet. / Research shows how music influences our total well-being and our potential. There are studies that show a connection between music and achievement and statistically students in music programs show better academic results in all subjects than other students. This study has looked into how high school students perceive choral singing in school, and specifically if they feel that choral singing can affect their total scholastic achievements. The study focuses on obtaining a deeper perspective on how these students view if their own personal development is connected to their choral singing in school. What traits and abilities does choral singing promote? The results have been related to current research about motivation, performance, and success. Does choral singing contribute to the improvement of students’ overall scholastic performance? The results show that choral singing has many effects, whereby some can be viewed as achievement-boosting. Broadly speaking, choral singing is perceived to be meaningful by the test-subjects, which leads to a high degree of responsibility. Choral singing stimulates both mentally and physically, and generates positive emotions which contribute to feelings of satisfaction and well-being. Choral singing fulfills many needs, such as security, community, and appreciation, which are said to be prerequisites for being motivated to achieve. It is difficult to prove if this combination is responsible for affecting the students’ scholastic results, but since choral singing generates abilities that permeate a student’s overall character and attitude, it is viable to draw this conclusion.

Esta dissertação pretende apresentar um histórico contextualizado e comentado de trabalho de coro infantil realizado em Milão, na Itália, com o Coro Curumim da Associação Cultural Cantosospeso, entre 1993 e 2003, assim como um estudo sobre as estratégias lúdicas utilizadas e a concepção de seu repertório multicultural de canções. Ressaltando a importância dessas estratégias lúdicas, tanto para o trabalho mais técnico, voltado aos modos de cantar tal repertório, como para a compreensão sociocultural do cantar e do fazer musical em geral, sobretudo no âmbito que circunscreve a concepção musical e sociocultural de cada povo contemplado nas canções que compreendem o cancioneiro empregado e das próprias crianças envolvidas, pretendeu-se contribuir para o desenvolvimento da área de canto coral infantil e, por que não dizer, da educação musical, e compartilhar com regentes corais, educadores musicais e estudantes de música, principalmente, uma experiência que consideramos formadora e transformadora. / This dissertation aims to provide a contextualized, commented history of a children\'s choir work performed in Milan, Italy, with the Curumim Choir, a group of Cantosospeso Cultural Association, between 1993 and 2003, as well as a study on the ludic strategies used and the design of its multicultural songs repertoire. Underscoring the importance of these ludic strategies for both the more technical work, focused on ways to sing this repertoire, and the sociocultural understanding of singing and music making in general, especially in the context that circumscribes both the musical and the sociocultural conception of every people contemplated in the songs that comprise both the repertoire employed and the children involved, it is intended to contribute to the development of the children\'s choir area, why not say, music education, and share with choir directors, music educators and music students, mainly, an experiment we consider formative and transformative.

Orientador: Adriana do Nascimento Araújo Mendes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:29:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kashima_RafaelKeidi_M.pdf: 1415937 bytes, checksum: 19f6249b40e88dcb4157aa40175d2d81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: No Brasil, ainda são escassos estudos que analisem e discutam propostas pedagógicas direcionadas às práticas do ensino para coros infantis. Este trabalho, de natureza qualitativa, buscou estudar a função e o desenvolvimento de jogos didáticos utilizados nos ensaios de coros infantis estimulando habilidades necessárias para a prática coral. Por meio da análise das bibliografias vigentes relacionadas a jogos, educação musical, pedagogia coral, bem como de pesquisa de campo, procurou-se compreender a possibilidade e função do jogo didático como proposta de ensino significativo e dinâmico que procure desenvolver a construção da perfomance do grupo. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas, buscando compreender as necessidades, as possibilidades e a formação pedagógica que favoreçam a utilização dos jogos a serem incluídos nos ensaios. Os sujeitos entrevistados foram regentes atuantes em coros infantis em escolas vinculadas à Diretoria Leste de Ensino do município de Campinas. Os dados foram analisados por categorização e discutidos a partir da literatura dos autores Laville e Dionne (1999). Por meio das análises, observamos que existe pouca compreensão, por parte dos regentes, das amplas possibilidades do uso pedagógico do jogo, sendo que os jogos são utilizados principalmente para entreter e motivar, desarticulados das necessidades do repertório musical desenvolvido. Nesta pesquisa, são descritas propostas de jogos desenvolvidos pelo próprio autor buscando contribuir com a prática do canto coral infantil. As considerações finais apontam que, por meio dos jogos, o regente pode estimular: percepção rítmica e melódica, socialização, expressão corporal, técnica vocal, entre outras habilidades que favorecem o desenvolvimento do canto coral infantil / Abstract: Brazil is a country that still few studies to analyse and discuss pedagogical proposals of teaching practices for children's choirs. This qualitative research aimed to study the function and development of didactic games used during children's choirs rehearsals, estimulating necessary skills to the choral practices. Analyzing the existing bibliographies related to games, music education, choral pedagogy and field research, we intend to understand the possibility and function of the didactic game as a proposal of meaningful and dynamic teaching to develop the group performance. We used semi structured interviews, intending to understand needs, possibilities and pedagogical training to encourage the inclusion of games at the rehearsals. The interviewees were children's choir conductors who work at the schools linked to the Eastern Board of Education at Campinas city. All the data were analyzed by categorization and discussed from the literature of Laville and Dionne (1999). From this analysis, we discovered that conductors have little understanding about the vast possibilities of using the games pedagogically. They are used but only to entertain and motivate, disjointed of the repertoires' musical needs that are being developed. At this work, we describe proposals of games developed by the author in order to contribute to the practice of children's choir singing. We suggest that conductors may use games to stimulate the rhythmic and melodic perception, the socialization, body language, the vocal technique and other skills that foster the development of children's choir singing / Mestrado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Mestre em Música

Orientador: Carlos Fernando Fiorini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T19:49:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_CleodicelesBrancoNogueirade_M.pdf: 4799497 bytes, checksum: 6e4d95e2b0d97373282c260943c5fdcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por finalidade apresentar uma proposta de musicalização infantil através de canto coral nas escolas e os benefícios que essa prática traz para a criança. Com base na pesquisa bibliográfica como referencial teórico e em parceria com o Instituto Cultural Canarinhos da Terra através de seu programa O Coral na Escola, foi realizado um trabalho onde cerca de 25 crianças de uma Escola Municipal de Ensino Básico, situada na região de Campinas tiveram a oportunidade de participar de aulas de Canto Coral ao longo do ano de 2010. Através da pesquisa de campo pode-se destacar a importância de ter uma equipe qualificada para a realização de um trabalho de coro infantil bem como os benefícios que tal prática traz para a formação da criança / Abstract: This dissertation aims to present a proposal for Music Education to children through Choral Singing in Schools, and discuss the benefits that this practice brings to the child. Based on a bibliographic research as a theoretical reference, and in partnership with Instituto Cultural Canarinhos da Terra through its program "O Coral na Escola", 25 children from the Escola Municipal de Ensino Basico, located in the region of Campinas, had the opportunity to participate in choral singing lessons throughout the year 2010. Through this research, it was possible to highlight not only the importance of having a qualified staff working with a children's choir, but also the benefits that this practice can bring to the child's education / Mestrado / Praticas Interpretativas / Mestre em Música

Aim of the research: This essay describes what can happen between the singers in a choral voice and how the individuals differ in taking initiative and acting in leading roles. Method: I have done qualitative interview studies with conductors and singers, and also recording studies. The recording sessions have been done in following choir rehearsals in a Swedish upper secondary school, and with a simultaneous video recording to be able to also take notice on eventual visual signs between the singers. With close up headworn microphones and by multi track recordings it have been possible through an analyzing program to watch graphically exactly how each individual sings and to compare the singers with each other. The recordings and analyses have been done using Cubase5 and Variaudio with printouts of the same sequence of the music the single voices in the same choral voice. Results: My informants all speak of formal and informal leaders in the choral voice. Many of them also talk about these leaders as leading the choral voice and also with their personal voice and timbre, give color to others. It is possible to graphically view differences in attacks and intonation, and also to notice when someone is ahead and “pulling” others to follow. This leading role can be both positive and negative, a confident but not so good singer can unfortunately bring along other singers to take wrong steps in the music.