Treatise (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Treatise (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

abstract: The purpose of this project is to introduce Bryan Johanson's composition for two guitars, 13 Ways of Looking at 12 Strings, and present an authoritative recording appropriate for publishing. This fifty-minute piece represents a fascinating suite in thirteen movements. The author of this project performed both guitar parts, recorded them separately in a music studio, then mixed them together into one recording. This document focuses on the critical investigation and description of the piece with a brief theoretical analysis, a discussion of performance difficulties, and guitar preparation. The composer approved the use and the scope of this project. Bryan Johanson is one of the leading contemporary composers for the guitar today. 13 Ways of Looking at 12 Strings is a unique guitar dictionary that takes us from Bach to Hendrix and highlights the unique capabilities of the instrument. It utilizes encoded messages, glass slides, metal mutes, explosive "riffs," rhythmic propulsion, improvisation, percussion, fugual writing, and much more. It has a great potential to make the classical guitar attractive to wider audiences, not limited only to guitarists and musicians. The main resources employed in researching this document are existing recordings of Johanson's other compositions and documentation of his personal views and ideas. This written document uses the composer's prolific and eclectic compositional output in order to draw conclusions and trace motifs. This project is a significant and original contribution in expanding the guitar's repertoire, and it uniquely contributes to bringing forth a significant piece of music. / Dissertation/Thesis / Recording of movement 1: Toccataesque mp3 / Recording of movement 2: Bad Egg Cafe mp3 / Recording of movement 6: Strings Etouffee mp3 / Recording of movement 7: Steel Pans mp3 / Recording of movement 8: Slide Rule mp3 / Recording of movement 10: EGAD! mp3 / Recording of movement 13: Jammus Vulgaris mp3 / D.M.A. Music 2011

abstract: This study examined attitudes and perspectives of classroom guitar students toward the reading of staff notation in music. The purpose of this qualitative research was to reveal these perceptions in the student's own words, and compare them to those of orchestra and band students of comparable experience. Forty-seven students from four suburban middle and high schools on the east coast were selected through purposeful sampling techniques. Research instruments included a Musical Background Questionnaire and a thirty-five question Student Survey. Follow-up interviews were conducted with students to clarify or expound upon collected data. Guitar, orchestra, and band teachers were interviewed in order to provide their perspectives on the issues discussed. The Student Survey featured a five-point Likert-type scale, which measured how much students agreed or disagreed with various statements pertaining to their feelings about music, note-reading, or their class at school. Collected data were coded and used to calculate mean scores, standard deviations, and percentages of students in agreement or disagreement with each statement. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed into a word processing document for analysis. The study found that while a variety of perspectives exist within a typical guitar class, some students do not find note-reading to be necessary for the types of music they desire to learn. Other findings included a perceived lack of relevance toward the classical elements of the guitar programs in the schools, a lack of educational consistency between classroom curricula and private lesson objectives, and the general description of the struggle some guitarists experience with staff notation. Implications of the collected data were discussed, along with recommendations for better engaging these students. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2011

abstract: Profound alterations to instruments that take place over short periods of time are fascinating, and the changes undergone by the guitar during the late eighteenth century make for an intriguing transition in the instrument's history. The guitar that existed before 1750 is most commonly referred to as the 'Baroque guitar' and is vastly different from the guitar of today. It was considerably smaller than the guitars that followed, pitched higher, and used primarily for accompaniment through chord strumming. From roughly 1750 to 1800 the guitar underwent a transformation that eventually led to the design and performance practices that have continued through to this day; larger, with lower-pitched courses (and sometimes single stringing), and used increasingly more in punteado (plucked) style. By defining the instrument as it existed prior to 1750, and the changes that it underwent after 1750, we can ensure that the instrument discussed is the one that has directly led to the instrument we use today. Because instrument design and performance practice inevitably influence each other, a thorough examination of ornamentation practices from 1750-1800 can lead to a greater understanding of the instrument as it changed, and the instrument it eventually turned into. Since the early nineteenth century was one of the more productive time periods for the guitar, having a better understanding of the ornamentation performance practices that preceded it may provide insight to how the players and composers of this fertile time (Sor, Aguado, Giuliani, etc.) approached their instrument. Although there was not much music printed or copied for guitar during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a substantial number of guitars were built, along with instruction manuals featuring the guitar. Instruction manuals were examined, along with works for solo guitar and guitar in ensemble with other instruments, to explore ornamentation practices from 1750-1800. Through examination of the guitar instruction manuals of the late eighteenth century, an increased understanding is gained regarding the techniques that eventually became cornerstones of nineteenth-century guitar performance practice. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2012

Inserido no campo da formação e das práticas profissionais na área da música, este trabalho tem o objetivo de apreender e compreender os modos de ser e agir na profissão, os valores, atitudes, interesses, destrezas e conhecimentos próprios da cultura profissional dos professores de violão. Para este propósito, é necessária a articulação de um conceito aberto de profissão, tendo como referência os trabalhos de Caria, Carrolo, Dubar e Franzoi. Nessa pesquisa foram entrevistados oito professores de violão, que exercem sua atividade em Porto Alegre/RS, cuja prática profissional varia de dois a vinte e cinco anos de experiência, e que atuam em espaços diversos, como escolas da rede de ensino, academias de música, casas dos alunos e em suas próprias residências. O material empírico foi colhido por intermédio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, baseadas em relatos orais temáticos e diários de campo. Dentre as principais conclusões, pode-se destacar o fato dos professores de violão constituírem um grupo social singular que compartilha aspectos de uma cultura profissional, que é transmitida no transcorrer da socialização profissional. Tal cultura é entendida como um processo contínuo, que se inicia nas primeiras aproximações com a atividade e se estende por toda a vida profissional - e é apropriada e reinventada por cada indivíduo na construção de sua identidade profissional. Diante da impossibilidade em se destacar traços generalizantes dos modos de ser e agir desses professores, devido à própria natureza da atividade desenvolvida pelos sujeitos investigados, a pesquisa limita-se a apontar tendências gerais que balizam sua cultura profissional. Dentre essas tendências destacam-se: a importância das redes na construção e manutenção dos nichos de atuação e transmissão da cultura profissional; o ensino focado nas expectativas e necessidades do público atendido; o poder de adaptabilidade e resposta às mais variadas demandas; tendência às regularidades na construção das trajetórias profissionais, mesmo dentro de sistemas aparentemente instáveis; modos de ser e agir que se contrapõem às representações sociais estigmatizantes de precariedade e improvisação associadas a essa prática profissional. Os resultados contribuem para um maior entendimento acerca da constituição das culturas profissionais dos professores de instrumento musical. / Within the field of training and professional practice in the music area, this paper aims to capture and understand the ways of being and acting in the profession, values, attitudes, interests, skills and knowledge of the professional culture of guitar teachers. For this purpose it is necessary to articulate an open concept of profession, with reference works of Caria, Carrolo, Dubar and Franzoi. In this research eight teachers of guitar that have their activity in Porto Alegre/RS were interviewed and whose professional practice varies from two to twenty-five years of experience, and that act in different spaces such as schools of education network, academies of music houses of students and in their own homes. The empirical material was collected through semi-structured interviews, based on oral reports and field diary. Among the key findings, you can highlight the fact of guitar teachers are a natural social group that share aspects of a professional culture, which is transmitted in the phases of professional socialization. This culture is understood as a continuous process that begins in the first approximations with the activity and extends throughout life - and it is appropriate and reinvented by each individual in the construction of their professional identity. Facing the impossibility to highlight features that generalize the ways of being and acting of teachers, due to the nature of the activity performed by the subjects investigated, the search is limited to general trends indicating that sustains their professional culture. Among these trends are: the importance of networks in the construction and maintenance of niches of work and occupational transmission of culture, education focused on the needs and expectations of the public attended, the power of adaptability and response to the most varied demands, tend to regularities in the construction of professional paths, even in apparently unstable systems, ways of being and acting that is opposed to stigmatizing representations of social precariousness and improvisation associated with this practice. The results contribute to a better understanding about the formation of the professional cultures of teachers of musical instrument.

OLIVEIRA, Marcelo Mateus de. A aprendizagem musical compartilhada e a didática do violão: uma pesquisa-ação na licenciatura em música da UFC em Sobral (Ceará). 2017. 234f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educaçao Brasileira , Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-25T13:00:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_mmoliveira.pdf: 9025901 bytes, checksum: d8093ab8ff3c25b4e114c4262ab8aa4f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-09-25T13:35:11Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_mmoliveira.pdf: 9025901 bytes, checksum: d8093ab8ff3c25b4e114c4262ab8aa4f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-25T13:35:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_mmoliveira.pdf: 9025901 bytes, checksum: d8093ab8ff3c25b4e114c4262ab8aa4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This work aimed to understand the presuppositions of Shared Musical Learning and its contribution to Guitar Didactic. We construct a contextualization of the Music Education Project of the UFC, highlighting some elements that denote an overcoming of the habitus conservatorial present in Music Degrees in Brazil. We carried out a literature review on Collaborative Learning, Cooperative Learning and Shared Learning, highlighting their similarities and differences. We present the scenario of the research on Guitar Didactic in Brazil and referenced it in Paulo Freire's Pedagogical Thought to propose the Principles of Shared Learning. We conducted a research of qualitative nature, type Action-Research, using as an instruments of data collection collective interviews, questionnaires and evaluations of the discipline. The subjects that participated in the research constituted the classes of Instrumental Practice - Guitar II and IV in the semester 2016.2 in the Course of Degree in Music of the Federal University of Ceará in the Campus of Sobral. We conclude by characterizing the principles of Shared Musical Learning, namely: (1) Build together the Educational Agreement; (2) Respect the formation history of the participants; (3) Democratize the educational process; (4) To stimulate the mobilization to learn in a system of knowledge sharing; (5) Use the musical creation as a path of developing musical discourse; (6) Consider the diversity and richness of possibilities from the propositional interaction; and (7) Conceive the teacher as the student's active study guide. The implications of the Shared Musical Learning in Guitar Didactics focus, in particular, on the reduction of the predominance of the technical aspect to a valorization of the creative aspect, seeking from the activities of musical creation (in the broadest sense of the term) to establish scopes of knowledge sharing , in order to enable everyone to develop themselves artistically through collaborative work. / O presente trabalho teve como objetivo compreender os pressupostos da Aprendizagem Musical Compartilhada e sua contribuição para a Didática do Violão. Construímos uma contextualização do Projeto de Educação Musical da UFC, destacando alguns elementos que denotam uma superação do habitus conservatorial presente nas Licenciaturas em Música no Brasil. Realizamos uma revisão de literatura sobre Aprendizagem Colaborativa, Aprendizagem Cooperativa e Aprendizagem Compartilhada, destacando suas similaridades e diferenças. Apresentamos o cenário da pesquisa sobre Didática do Violão no Brasil e nos referenciamos no Pensamento Pedagógico de Paulo Freire para caracterizar os Princípios da Aprendizagem Compartilhada. Realizamos uma pesquisa de caráter qualitativo do tipo Pesquisa-ação, utilizando como instrumento de coleta de dados entrevistas coletivas, questionários e avaliações da disciplina. Os sujeitos participantes da pesquisa constituíram as turmas de Prática Instrumental - Violão II e IV no semestre 2016.2 no Curso de Licenciatura em Música da Universidade Federal no Campus de Sobral. Concluímos caracterizando os princípios da Aprendizagem Musical Compartilhada, a saber: (1) Construir conjuntamente o Acordo Educativo; (2) Respeitar a história de formação dos participantes; (3) Democratizar o processo educativo; (4) Estimular a mobilização para aprender em regime de compartilha de saberes; (5) Utilizar a criação musical como meio de desenvolvimento do discurso musical; (6) Considerar a diversidade e riqueza de possibilidades a partir da interação propositiva; e (7) Conceber o professor como orientador do estudo ativo do estudante. As implicações da Aprendizagem Musical Compartilhada na Didática do Violão incidem, especialmente, na diminuição da predominância do aspecto técnico para uma valorização do aspecto criativo, buscando a partir de atividades de criação musical (no sentido mais amplo do termo) estabelecer âmbitos de compartilha de saberes, no intuito de que todos consigam se desenvolver artisticamente a partir do trabalho colaborativo.

ix, 82 p. : music / While musical styles from various parts of the world intermingled in the early twentieth century, Heitor Villa-Lobos sought to promote Brazilian music throughout the classical music world. Instead of presenting only Brazilian styles, Villa-Lobos, in an attempt to showcase the international adaptability of Brazil's musical culture, developed a style all his own, which was a combination of his classical training in the western tradition and his first-hand experience with both Brazilian popular and Native Brazilian music. Much of his music manifests these influences, but his music for solo guitar, Brazil's national instrument, also features new techniques and timbres. This thesis examines the interaction of the various styles and techniques used in his <italic>Cinq Preludes</italic> for solo guitar. / Committee in charge: Jack Boss, Chairperson; Steven Rodgers, Member; David Case, Member

O presente trabalho investiga a interpretação do bambuco Florecita del camino do colombiano Jaime Romero (1966) para violão solo, uma vez que foi concebido pelo próprio compositor originalmente para trio típico colombiano, ou seja, para três instrumentos de cordas. O gênero bambuco é o maior representante da música andina colombiana. Para esta pesquisa apresento dados sobre a forma e a estrutura do bambuco e, analisei e comparei a versão original com a de violão solo. Dois artigos escritos pelo próprio compositor, assim como uma entrevista serviram de base para o trabalho. Para auxiliar na interpretação deste bambuco, criei exercícios e micro estudos para confrontar as dificuldades técnicas que encontrei, incluindo digitações, e dificuldades expressivas desta obra. Este material pretende não só ajudar o intérprete ao se deparar com bambucos, como divulgar o gênero da música andina colombiana. / The purpose of this study is to investigate the interpretation of the bambuco Florecita del camino by the Columbian composer Jaime Romero (b. 1966) for solo guitar. It was originally composed for the Columbian trío típico, by the same composer, for three stringed instruments. The bambuco is the most representative of Columbian music of the Andes. Information about the form and structure of the bambuco were presented, as well as an analysis and comparison of the original version with the guitar solo version. Two articles by the composer and an interview served as the basis of this work. As for the interpretation of the bambuco, I created exercises and microstudies to overcome the technical difficulties I encountered, including fingering, as well as expressive difficulties in the piece. This material may be used to help those learning to perform the bambuco, making this genre of Columbian music of the Andes more accessible to listeners, as well.

Inserido no campo da formação e das práticas profissionais na área da música, este trabalho tem o objetivo de apreender e compreender os modos de ser e agir na profissão, os valores, atitudes, interesses, destrezas e conhecimentos próprios da cultura profissional dos professores de violão. Para este propósito, é necessária a articulação de um conceito aberto de profissão, tendo como referência os trabalhos de Caria, Carrolo, Dubar e Franzoi. Nessa pesquisa foram entrevistados oito professores de violão, que exercem sua atividade em Porto Alegre/RS, cuja prática profissional varia de dois a vinte e cinco anos de experiência, e que atuam em espaços diversos, como escolas da rede de ensino, academias de música, casas dos alunos e em suas próprias residências. O material empírico foi colhido por intermédio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, baseadas em relatos orais temáticos e diários de campo. Dentre as principais conclusões, pode-se destacar o fato dos professores de violão constituírem um grupo social singular que compartilha aspectos de uma cultura profissional, que é transmitida no transcorrer da socialização profissional. Tal cultura é entendida como um processo contínuo, que se inicia nas primeiras aproximações com a atividade e se estende por toda a vida profissional - e é apropriada e reinventada por cada indivíduo na construção de sua identidade profissional. Diante da impossibilidade em se destacar traços generalizantes dos modos de ser e agir desses professores, devido à própria natureza da atividade desenvolvida pelos sujeitos investigados, a pesquisa limita-se a apontar tendências gerais que balizam sua cultura profissional. Dentre essas tendências destacam-se: a importância das redes na construção e manutenção dos nichos de atuação e transmissão da cultura profissional; o ensino focado nas expectativas e necessidades do público atendido; o poder de adaptabilidade e resposta às mais variadas demandas; tendência às regularidades na construção das trajetórias profissionais, mesmo dentro de sistemas aparentemente instáveis; modos de ser e agir que se contrapõem às representações sociais estigmatizantes de precariedade e improvisação associadas a essa prática profissional. Os resultados contribuem para um maior entendimento acerca da constituição das culturas profissionais dos professores de instrumento musical. / Within the field of training and professional practice in the music area, this paper aims to capture and understand the ways of being and acting in the profession, values, attitudes, interests, skills and knowledge of the professional culture of guitar teachers. For this purpose it is necessary to articulate an open concept of profession, with reference works of Caria, Carrolo, Dubar and Franzoi. In this research eight teachers of guitar that have their activity in Porto Alegre/RS were interviewed and whose professional practice varies from two to twenty-five years of experience, and that act in different spaces such as schools of education network, academies of music houses of students and in their own homes. The empirical material was collected through semi-structured interviews, based on oral reports and field diary. Among the key findings, you can highlight the fact of guitar teachers are a natural social group that share aspects of a professional culture, which is transmitted in the phases of professional socialization. This culture is understood as a continuous process that begins in the first approximations with the activity and extends throughout life - and it is appropriate and reinvented by each individual in the construction of their professional identity. Facing the impossibility to highlight features that generalize the ways of being and acting of teachers, due to the nature of the activity performed by the subjects investigated, the search is limited to general trends indicating that sustains their professional culture. Among these trends are: the importance of networks in the construction and maintenance of niches of work and occupational transmission of culture, education focused on the needs and expectations of the public attended, the power of adaptability and response to the most varied demands, tend to regularities in the construction of professional paths, even in apparently unstable systems, ways of being and acting that is opposed to stigmatizing representations of social precariousness and improvisation associated with this practice. The results contribute to a better understanding about the formation of the professional cultures of teachers of musical instrument.