L’elaborato indaga le modalità di insegnamento della lingua e della dizione italiana ai cantanti d’opera internazionali. Dopo una breve cronistoria dell’opera lirica, si analizza la figura del librettista e in particolare di Lorenzo Da Ponte, insegnante ante litteram della lingua e della cultura italiana. Segue una disamina dei corsi di canto degli albori, dalla quale emerge quanto il problema di una corretta pronuncia fosse cruciale nell’educazione dei cantanti già nel Settecento. Si indagano le metodologie di insegnamento della fonetica e della prosodia nella storia della glottodidattica, i fattori biologici e psico-sociali determinanti nell’apprendimento di una L2/LS e le principali difficoltà linguistiche incontrate dai discenti stranieri che si accingono ad apprendere la lingua italiana. Si presentano i dati di una ricerca condotta su dieci istituzioni musicali tra i quali il Conservatorio di Milano, la Juilliard School of Music di New York e la Washington State University di Seattle. Si analizzano le metodologie di insegnamento e i manuali adottati e si espongono i dati emersi da un questionario rivolto ai docenti e ai discenti delle suddette scuole. Si procede esponendo un sillabo ideato per i cantanti che permetta uno studio più proficuo della lingua e della dizione italiana. / The research investigates the teaching procedures of Italian language and diction to international opera singers. After a brief digression on the lyric opera, we analyze the figure of librettista and in particular of Lorenzo Da Ponte, a forerunner of the Italian language and culture teaching. An examination of the first singing courses shows how teaching a impeccable pronunciation was already crucial in the XVIII century. The phonetics and prosody teaching procedures in the history of glottodidactics are then examined, as well as the biological and psycho-social factors critical while learning a foreign language and the main linguistic difficulties faced by foreign students approaching the Italian language. We present the data of a survey conducted on ten musical institutions like the Milan Conservatory, the Julliard School of Music of New York and the Washington State University of Seattle. We analyze the teaching procedures and the textbooks adopted and the results of a questionnaire addressed to the teachers and students of these schools. Finally we display a syllabus for international opera singers to profitably approach the Italian language.

The aim of my diploma thesis is to summarize my knowledge of the guitar chord playing during working in the institution Dům dětí a mládeže in České Budějovice where I have been teaching for four years. It is focused on readers who teach guitar chord playing as an after-school activity or who learn how to play on their own. In the first part of the thesis there is a concept about the lector's theoretical knowledge. The second part (containing particular lessons) deals with the methodology of teaching the very beginners with no musical education.

As escolas de música são espaços de reconhecida importância como instâncias de formação e atuação profissional em música no Brasil. Com o objetivo de compreender a escola de música em suas singularidades, esta tese parte da perspectiva da sociologia das instituições escolares, e de um estudo de caso realizado numa escola de música particular na cidade de Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. As técnicas de coleta de dados utilizadas foram entrevistas e observações. Apoiado em autores como Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007) e Derouet (2000), o estudo mostra que a escola é vista, sobretudo, como um lugar para aprender e ensinar música, dotado de permanência, com missões próprias e sustentado por valores; com procedimentos próprios e com recursos instrumentais pertinentes. Estudar a escola de música enquanto instituição educativa, pode trazer para a área a consciência dos diferentes aspectos constituintes da escola, fazendo deles pontos de partida para a discussão da escola de música como campo de atuação profissional e de formação musical. / Music schools are places of acknowledged importance as venues for music education and professional performance in Brazil. In order to understand the music school in its singularities, this study adopts the perspective of the sociology of educational institutions, and of a case study conducted in a private music school in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The techniques of data collection used were interviews and observations. Supported by authors such as Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007), and Derouet (2000), the study shows that the school is seen mainly as a place to learn and teach music, characterized by permanence, with its own missions and supported by values; with its own procedures and pertinent instrumental resources. Studying the music school as an educational institution can bring to this area the awareness of the various aspects that constitute the school, making them the starting points for the discussion of the music school as a field of professional performance and music education.

As escolas de música são espaços de reconhecida importância como instâncias de formação e atuação profissional em música no Brasil. Com o objetivo de compreender a escola de música em suas singularidades, esta tese parte da perspectiva da sociologia das instituições escolares, e de um estudo de caso realizado numa escola de música particular na cidade de Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. As técnicas de coleta de dados utilizadas foram entrevistas e observações. Apoiado em autores como Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007) e Derouet (2000), o estudo mostra que a escola é vista, sobretudo, como um lugar para aprender e ensinar música, dotado de permanência, com missões próprias e sustentado por valores; com procedimentos próprios e com recursos instrumentais pertinentes. Estudar a escola de música enquanto instituição educativa, pode trazer para a área a consciência dos diferentes aspectos constituintes da escola, fazendo deles pontos de partida para a discussão da escola de música como campo de atuação profissional e de formação musical. / Music schools are places of acknowledged importance as venues for music education and professional performance in Brazil. In order to understand the music school in its singularities, this study adopts the perspective of the sociology of educational institutions, and of a case study conducted in a private music school in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The techniques of data collection used were interviews and observations. Supported by authors such as Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007), and Derouet (2000), the study shows that the school is seen mainly as a place to learn and teach music, characterized by permanence, with its own missions and supported by values; with its own procedures and pertinent instrumental resources. Studying the music school as an educational institution can bring to this area the awareness of the various aspects that constitute the school, making them the starting points for the discussion of the music school as a field of professional performance and music education.

As escolas de música são espaços de reconhecida importância como instâncias de formação e atuação profissional em música no Brasil. Com o objetivo de compreender a escola de música em suas singularidades, esta tese parte da perspectiva da sociologia das instituições escolares, e de um estudo de caso realizado numa escola de música particular na cidade de Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. As técnicas de coleta de dados utilizadas foram entrevistas e observações. Apoiado em autores como Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007) e Derouet (2000), o estudo mostra que a escola é vista, sobretudo, como um lugar para aprender e ensinar música, dotado de permanência, com missões próprias e sustentado por valores; com procedimentos próprios e com recursos instrumentais pertinentes. Estudar a escola de música enquanto instituição educativa, pode trazer para a área a consciência dos diferentes aspectos constituintes da escola, fazendo deles pontos de partida para a discussão da escola de música como campo de atuação profissional e de formação musical. / Music schools are places of acknowledged importance as venues for music education and professional performance in Brazil. In order to understand the music school in its singularities, this study adopts the perspective of the sociology of educational institutions, and of a case study conducted in a private music school in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The techniques of data collection used were interviews and observations. Supported by authors such as Estevão (1998), Castanho (2007), and Derouet (2000), the study shows that the school is seen mainly as a place to learn and teach music, characterized by permanence, with its own missions and supported by values; with its own procedures and pertinent instrumental resources. Studying the music school as an educational institution can bring to this area the awareness of the various aspects that constitute the school, making them the starting points for the discussion of the music school as a field of professional performance and music education.

Studien syftar till att få djupare insikt i vad elgitarrlärare på kommunala musik- och kulturskolor använder för undervisningsmaterial, hur de motiverar användandet och på vilka sätt materialet verkar inspirerande på eleverna. I bakgrundsavsnittet presenteras tidigare forskning och annan litteratur som berör studien samt de teoretiska utgångspunkterna. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt utgörs av det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande och kommunikation.  Studiens datamaterial består av kvalitativa intervjuer med tre elgitarrlärare som undervisar inom den kommunala musik- eller kulturskolan. I resultatavsnittet beskrivs informanternas syn på undervisningsmaterial i elgitarrundervisning samt hur de motiverar användandet av den och om den är inspirerande.  Deras undervisningsmaterial kan vara lika men ingångarna eller hur de använder dem, kan vara olika till sättet de används på.  Vad de menar är inspirerande motiverar också deras val av material men motiveringen kan också ha en annan bakgrund. Materialet i sig behöver inte vara motiverande eller inspirerande utan det som är viktigast är den inre motivationen och inspirationen till att vilja fördjupa sig i elgitarrspel: Att eleven har en egen drivkraft! I det avslutande diskussionsavsnittet lyfts studiens resultat till diskussion i relation till tidigare forskning och till det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande. Här framkommer att elgitarrlärarna har olika metoder för att lära ut att spela elgitarr. Trots att undervisningen handlar om att lära sig spela elgitarr visar lärarna på olika pedagogiker för att lära ut.  Ibland använder lärarna sig av samma redskap men trots detta så kan de använda dem på skilda sätt. / This study aims to create deeper insight in what kind of equipment electric guitar teachers use  in their teaching, how they motivate it and also if it is inspiring.  The background chapter presents previous research and other literature in the field and also the theoretical basis for the study, the socio-cultural perspective on learning and communication. The data consists of qualitative interviews with three electric guitar teachers who teaches at the school of music and art.  The results chapter show the teacher’s view on the subject, - teaching material in electric guitar teaching and how they motivate it´s use and also if it is inspiring. Their teaching materials may be equal but how they utilize them is different What they mean is that an inspirational teaching material also motivates their choice of the same. But the opinion - what is inspiring may also be of a different view. The teaching material doesn´t need to be inspiring. Most important is the inner inspiration that motivates to immerse in electric guitar playing. In the concluding discussion the results are discussed in relation to the previous research and to the socio-cultural perspective on learning. It appears that in spite of the tuition of electric guitar playing the tuition shape depends on the teacher. Sometimes the teacher uses same tools, but they may use them differently.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka vad stråkpedagoger har för attityd och syn på begreppet genrebredd samt hur detta kan relateras till undervisning på musik- och kulturskola. Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgörs av diskurspsykologi. För att undersöka detta har fokusgrupper använts som metod där stråkpedagoger inom musik- och kulturskolor har fått diskutera sina synsätt på genrebredd. Gruppsamtalen spelades in med både ljud och bild för att sedan transkriberas. Transkriptionerna analyserades med diskursanalys för att urskilja vilka tolkningsrepertoarer som framträder i samtalen. I resultatdelen beskrivs de olika tolkningsrepertoarerna som framträtt. Stråkpedagogerna ger utlopp för en variation av tolkningsrepertoarer som presenteras genom två huvudteman: Genrebredd som beroende av flera faktorer samt Genrebredd i undervisningen. Vissa av tolkningsrepertoarerna är kontrasterande mot varandra och vissa innefattar variationer inom dem själva. De mest förekommande synsätten hos lärarna är enligt resultatet, att genrebredd beror mycket på deras egen bakgrund, samt att genrebredd ses som ett verktyg för att möta eleven. Samtliga lärare ger dock uttryck för en tolkningsrepertoar där genrebredd ses som ett viktigt arbete. I diskussionen lyfts resultatets mest framträdande tolkningsrepertoarer för att diskuteras i relation med tidigare presenterad litteratur och forskning samt till det teoretiska perspektivet. / The purpose of this study is to examine string teachers’ attitudes and views towards the term genre width and how this could be related to string education in Swedish community school of music. The theoretical framework of the study is discourse psychology. To examine this, focus groups were used as method where string teachers within Swedish Community Schools of music has discussed their point of views on genre width. The conversations were recorded by video and audio to later be transcribed. The transcriptions were analyzed with discourse analysis to distinguish the various interpretative repertoires. The string teachers provide an outlet for a variety of interpretative repertoires, which is presented in two main themes: Genre as dependent of several factors and genre in teaching context. Some of the interpretative repertoires are contrasting to one another and some includes variations within themselves. The most occurring of the teachers’ views seems to be that to broadening the genre, are dependent on their own background, and that it is looked upon as a tool for meeting the student. All teachers express an interpretative repertoire where genre width, is looked upon as an important work. In the discussion, the most highlighted interpretative repertoires of the results are being related to previous research and presented literature and to the theoretical perspective.

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<p>English title: Parents’ expectations of municipal school of music and of arts.</p><p>Thesis in Music Education by Jonathan Lilliedahl. Part of the work for the master´s degree. Studies from School of Music, University of Örebro, 2007. Available from School of Music, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden. Original in Swedish.</p><p>Keywords: parents’ expectations, municipal school of music and of arts, music education, childrens’ development, creative activity, parental influence, municipal activity.</p><p>The essay concerns parents’ expectations within municipal school of music and of arts. The main aim is to elucidate and understand parents’ expectations of the school and purposes about their childrens activity, and then, discuss the results towards the concept and the didactic of the school.</p><p>The method has been Grounded Theory. The results are grounded on qualitative interviews with twelve parents from different municipalities and the empirical material has been encoded into categories of various kinds.</p><p>The results, which have been encoded for a several times and on different levels, indicate that parents have different purposes to each other, but also that each parent has different purposes in various contexts. A joint comprehensive aim and expectation is that the school and their teachers should enable an all-embracing development. Underlying, there are musical targets and objectives towards music as means. The parents take both individual- and group perspectives.</p><p>The results can also illustrate that parents in many cases adapt their expectations to the existing structure of the school and that many of the parents are satisfied as long as everything works. Many of the parents consider that a municipal school should be responsible for a broad education of arts, characterized by democracy and availability.</p><p>As a conclusion it may be said, while the parents’ exceptions focus on the childs’ interest and development, the municipal school of music and of arts has even more interests to satisfy and comply with.</p>

The purpose of this essay is to provide performance and interpretive background and suggestions for David Maslanka's Give Us This Day. This essay serves as the first significant research document on the work and is intended as a source for musicians seeking information about the work. The essay includes a biography of David Maslanka, as well as descriptions of the history and commissioning of Give Us This Day, its compositional process, and its performance and interpretive issues. Information was accumulated through interviews with David Maslanka, Gary D. Green, director of bands at the University of Miami, and the consortium head, Eric Weirather.