Desde a década de sessenta os guitarristas de rock são considerados ícones da cultura musical popular. Venerados por uma comunidade fiel de entusiastas, alguns deles são chamados de deuses, heróis e mitos. Suas histórias pessoais e artísticas são constantemente narradas e celebradas na mídia, tanto nos meios de comunicação tradicionais quanto nos ambientes digitais. E toda essa adoração pode ser visualizada concomitantemente no culto tecnológico à guitarra elétrica, um dos instrumentos musicais mais vendidos no mundo. Mesmo que tantos fãs, jornalistas e críticos musicais construam discursos fantásticos para se referir aos guitarristas heróis, uma investigação mais aprofundada sobre a estrutura dos arquétipos e símbolos presentes no compartilhamento de sentido entre os amantes do rock é uma tarefa ainda inacabada. Nossa hipótese parte do princípio de que diversos mitos e narrativas heroicas são atualizados continuamente nas práticas culturais contemporâneas cuja experiência transforma e orienta a visão de mundo dos atores sociais envolvidos na sua disseminação. Essa comunhão em torno da imagem sagrada dos guitar heroes extrapola a esfera artística e se constitui em um estilo de vida com significações múltiplas, sejam elas, comportamentais, estéticas e sexuais. O objetivo é compreender como essas representações sociais refletem e atualizam a própria visão idealizada de que como a sociedade se vê. Outro objetivo é enfatizar a importância desse fenômeno na prática de consumo associada à guitarra elétrica onde o mito desempenha uma função simbólica essencial. / Since the sixties, rock guitarists have been considered icons of popular music culture. Venerated by a faithful community of enthusiasts, some of them are called gods, heroes and myths. Their personal and artistic stories are constantly narrated and celebrated in the media, both in traditional media and in digital environments. And all this worship can be seen concomitantly in the technological cult of electric guitar, the one of the best-selling musical instruments in the world. Even though so many fans, journalists and music critics create fantastic speeches to refer to guitar heroes, further research into the structure of the archetypes and symbols present in the sharing of meaning among rock lovers is a task rarely addressed and still unfinished. Our hypothesis sustain that various heroic myths and narratives are continuously updated in contemporary cultural practices whose experience transforms and guides the world view of the actors-net involved in its dissemination. This communion around the sacred image of guitar heroes goes beyond the artistic sphere and constitutes a lifestyle with multiple meanings, that is, behavioral and aesthetic. The objective is to understand how these social representations reflect and actualize the idealized vision of how society sees itself. Another objective is to emphasize the importance of this phenomenon in the practice of consumption associated with electric guitar where the myth plays an essential symbolic function.

O presente trabalho trata da digitação ao violão como um processo com diferentes instâncias, as quais contribuem para a tomada de decisões interpretativas e sua fundamentação. A digitação grafada existe desde os primórdios da história do violão, mas, comparada com a técnica instrumental, sua abordagem analítica resulta escassa. A partir da revisão de literatura sobre o tema, construí um referencial teórico e prático que serviu para digitar a obra “Caleta el Membrillo” do compositor chileno Guillermo Rifo (2012) de forma sistemática, a qual se apresentava sem digitações grafadas. Após analisar diversos trechos musicais e propor diferentes soluções digitais para cada um, dentro dos marcos preestabelecidos, grafei a partitura final com as minhas escolhas. / This work deals with guitar fingerings as a process with different phases which help prepare for and establish interpretative decisions. Printed fingerings exist since the beginning of the history of the guitar. However, when compared to instrumental technique, this analytical approach remains scarce. After presenting a review of current literature on the subject, I built a theoretical and practical framework that served to provide fingering choices for the work “Caleta el Membrillo” by Guillermo Rifo (2012) in a systematic way. This piece had no printed fingerings. After analyzing several musical passages and offering different fingering solutions for them, within preestablished limits, I propose and present a final version with my fingering choices.

In this study, the habits of classical guitarists regarding ergonomics when applying a cushion of air, the so-called Dynair, is explored. The aim is to examine how classical guitarists are influenced by practicing with the Dynair. For six months, nine participants used a cushion of air to sit on when they were practicing. Through video analysis and semi-structured interviews, it is examined how the participants were affected ergonomically by the use of the Dynair. The conclusion is that the participants became more sedentary, yet more activated in the core muscles and lower back. The results indicate a slight trend that the participants developed a more upright posture and experienced upper back relaxation. After taking part in the study, the participants became more aware of ergonomics and playing positions. / I studien utforskas klassiska gitarristers sittställning avseende ergonomi vid tillämpning av balansdyna. Syftet är att undersöka hur klassiska gitarrister påverkas av att öva när de sitter på en balansdyna. Nio deltagare har under sex månaders tid använt en dyna med luft, s.k. Dynair, att sitta på när de övat. Genom videoanalys och semistrukturerade intervjuer utforskas hur deltagarnas ergonomi påverkas av att använda balansdynan. Studiens slutsats är att deltagarna blir mer stillasittande men samtidigt mer aktiverade i coremuskulatur och nedre rygg. Resultaten visar en svag tendens till att deltagarna får en mer upprätt hållning och upplever avslappning i övre rygg. Efter studien hade deltagarna blivit mer medvetna om sin ergonomi och sin sittställning.

How can I, as a leader, keep the motivation of the participants in a group?   When I started to write this report, I was focused on, how a group could affect the participants motivation of the participants, but little by little I realized that the biggest motivation came from that this group affected mostly my own motivationmyself. The guitar orchestra has given me the opportunity to learn and it has given another sense to my knowledge as musician and teacher. Analysing what I have done with the guitar orchestra has awakened more questions than answers. What exactly did I do? Why did I do it? Was it really effective?   This written part of my project at KMH describes how, together with my colleagues, we have organized an orchestra of guitars in Avonia music institute based in Espoo, Finland and how this group and my own motivation have affected the motivation of the participants. / Making Music with a guitar orchestra

This work is about objects and their makers, their relationship, and the negotiation between tradition and innovation in the creation of things. I explore the relationship between tradition, innovation, and technology as it pertains to the creation, perception, and interaction with acoustic steel string guitars and ethnographies. First, I focus on the works of two Nashville based guitar makers, Grant and Cory Batson. I investigate the ways in which the Batsons critically evaluate traditional construction techniques and design features as they create their instruments, looking at their theories of tone production, methods of construction, and their perceptions and uses of various media within their guitars. Secondly, I recruit the Batsons’ theories, methods, and revisions of tradition as a metaphor to discuss the traditional ways of constructing ethnographic representations. Through this work, I argue for the craftsmanship of more responsive ethnographic things which take into account not only theoretical, but also methodological and media eclecticism.

Thesis (M.M.)--University of North Texas, 2003. / Score of Tele (p. 50-54); in part graphic notation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

This is a study of choro in São Paulo, with a brief ethnography of seven-string guitarists. Studies of choro have routinely favored Rio de Janeiro, the birthplace of choro. This work focuses on São Paulo because it has a rich choro tradition, as well as an active and creative contemporary choro scene that has frequently been overshadowed by Rio de Janeiro's. There are three main parts to this study. The first part provides background information, including the major guitarists that have contributed to the development of the guitar's role in choro, and brief reviews of the most important literature on the subject of choro. The second part discusses São Paulo, my methodology, and the music scholars that have informed this study. The second part is the analytical base for the study, in which I examine the song, "Sampa" (1978), by Caetano Veloso, and interpret the uses, functions, and concepts of choro, drawing from Alan Merriam. Part II also includes a brief discussion of the resurgence of choro in the 1970s. This work proposes that choro has as its principal functions both musical and social education. The musical education choro provides is aural, notational, historical, and improvisational. The social education choro provides is one of an idealized mythological "racial democracy." The third and final part is a brief ethnography of the contemporary choro scene in São Paulo, with a focus on seven-string guitarists, and a descriptive account for the contextualization of choro. / text

O presente trabalho trata da digitação ao violão como um processo com diferentes instâncias, as quais contribuem para a tomada de decisões interpretativas e sua fundamentação. A digitação grafada existe desde os primórdios da história do violão, mas, comparada com a técnica instrumental, sua abordagem analítica resulta escassa. A partir da revisão de literatura sobre o tema, construí um referencial teórico e prático que serviu para digitar a obra “Caleta el Membrillo” do compositor chileno Guillermo Rifo (2012) de forma sistemática, a qual se apresentava sem digitações grafadas. Após analisar diversos trechos musicais e propor diferentes soluções digitais para cada um, dentro dos marcos preestabelecidos, grafei a partitura final com as minhas escolhas. / This work deals with guitar fingerings as a process with different phases which help prepare for and establish interpretative decisions. Printed fingerings exist since the beginning of the history of the guitar. However, when compared to instrumental technique, this analytical approach remains scarce. After presenting a review of current literature on the subject, I built a theoretical and practical framework that served to provide fingering choices for the work “Caleta el Membrillo” by Guillermo Rifo (2012) in a systematic way. This piece had no printed fingerings. After analyzing several musical passages and offering different fingering solutions for them, within preestablished limits, I propose and present a final version with my fingering choices.

abstract: This research project introduces the Czech composer Miloslav Gajdoš (b. 1948) to classical guitarists through his composition Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, composed in 1998. Gajdoš is a double bass virtuoso who has enjoyed a successful career performing, composing, and teaching. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Gajdoš was allowed more opportunities to perform outside the Czech Republic and to become better known throughout the world. His Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, originally for solo double bass, works well on the guitar and is a rewarding piece to learn and perform. A transcription is presented here that is of publishable quality, together with a biography of Gajdoš and a performance guide. The biography was written from available research materials as well as from direct email correspondence with the composer, and includes authorized quotations from those emails. This project also includes a description of the piece together with musical and technical suggestions that will aid the performer in creating a satisfying musical interpretation. Chapter Three includes a description of the left-hand challenges that were encountered while the piece was being transcribed and the solutions that were devised to mitigate them. Finding new pieces to transcribe for the guitar has long been an important activity of serious players, and this transcription adds a substantial and expressive piece to the growing repertoire of the classical guitar. / Dissertation/Thesis / Complete score of the transcription. / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

Submitted by Morgana Silva (morgana_linhares@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-25T17:06:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 59847296 bytes, checksum: c986a87278ba6919e1c3ca6066356966 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-25T17:06:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 59847296 bytes, checksum: c986a87278ba6919e1c3ca6066356966 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-16 / Nowadays musical education has taken part of a diversity of themes and points related to multiple contexts of music formation that constitute the contemporaneous society. In this universe the studies about popular music has gotten place and projections which shows singularities that is a part of the musician’s formation who will deal with this phenomenon. Inside of these studies has appeared a diversity of researches about teaching and learning the electric guitar, an instrument which has a strong insertion in the scene of the popular music since the middle of the 20th century. So, the purpose of this work is to comprehend the mainly demands of the learners from the UFPB Music Course and also in which ways they are engaged with the proposals and the musical pedagogical practice of these courses. The study was realized in the basis of an approaching qualitative research that observed collected data like bibliographical and documental researches, interviews, observations. Furthermore, it was used a questionnaire which is more suitable in quantitative researches, a fundamental tool to achieve the purposes of this work. From the results it is possible to affirm that the UFPB Guitar Courses give to the students new perspectives to perform and new discovering to continue and develop their practice like a musician. However it is clear that there is a big difference between the proposals of the pedagogical projects of the courses and the expectations and demands of the learners, not just this, the directed formation for the singularities of popular music and the electric guitar. / A área de educação musical na atualidade tem contemplado uma diversidade de temas e de questões relacionadas aos múltiplos contextos de formação em música que constituem a sociedade contemporânea. Nesse universo, os estudos acerca da música popular têm ganhado espaço e projeção, apontando para singularidades que permeiam a formação do músico para lidar com tal fenômeno. No âmbito desses estudos, têm emergido uma diversidade de pesquisas sobre o ensino e aprendizagem da guitarra elétrica, instrumento que tem forte inserção na cena da música popular desde, pelo menos, a segunda década do século XX. Considerando esse contexto, este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir e analisar as interrelações entre as principais demandas do corpo discente e a proposta pedagógico-musical dos cursos de guitarra da UFPB. O estudo foi realizado como base em uma abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, contemplando instrumentos de coleta de dados como: pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, realização de entrevistas e observação participante. Além disso, foi utilizado também o questionário, instrumento mais característico da pesquisa quantitativa, mas fundamental para alcançar os objetivos propostos para a pesquisa realizada. A partir dos resultados obtidos é possível afirmar que os cursos de guitarra da UFPB têm propiciado ao estudantes novas perspectivas de atuação e novas descobertas para a continuidade e aperfeiçoamento de sua prática como instrumentista. Todavia, fica evidente que há, ainda, certo descompasso entre a proposta dos projetos políticos pedagógicos dos cursos e as expectativas e demandas dos discentes, sobretudo no que tange a uma formação mais direcionada para as singularidades da música popular e do instrumento guitarra.