To Bach, the Circle of Fifths was the language of the universe. Similar to the constellations used to understand the sky, the Circle of Fifths is a visualization device to understand the fundamental concepts of key signatures, which are the foundation for music. The Circle of Fifths is a guide for writing music because its structure helps compose and harmonize melodies, build chords, and move to different keys within a composition. The Octave is the most significant key signature because it completes the circle of fifths. The Octave, if in perfect tune will create an overtone, which is a tune unable to be created on its own. The movement through the Circle of Fifths led to a contemplation described by Pythagoras as "Music of the Spheres" or meeting between heaven and earth, between spiritual and material realms. The Well Tempered Building uses the Circle of Fifths as the underlying geometry for the foundation of the conservatory. Proportions from the Circle of Fifths, including the Octave, shaped the conservatory making the musicians, audience, sound, light, water and air tuned to each other. / Master of Architecture

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:31:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GEORGEANA VENDRAMI.pdf: 4460195 bytes, checksum: 380e1a081c9bcedfa48c4ecf04dc6c07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-24 / This study analyzes political and social-historical determinations that characterize Maestro Paulino Martins Alves Conservatory (CMP) in Ponta Grossa, Parana, from 1971 to 2014. The objectives of the research were: 1) understand the nature and the educational and cultural dimension of the CMP from the empirical particularities that characterize its internal movement and its external intervenients; 2) problematize the possibilities and limits of the CMP in giving access to musical culture as an element of humanization of senses of the population who attends there, having in mind the molds of its genesis, from its development and its concretion in the city of Ponta Grossa living. The arguments of this thesis is mainly based on Marx‟s theorical and methodological principles, especially in the ontological dimension of the esthetic and social thinking developed by Marx and Engels that recognize the art as one of the ways of object of the social being. According to this perspective, arguments formulated by Lukács about the art are taken into account, the process of the constitution of the man in its whole and its role in the human emancipation. This research involved relative theoretical studies on the literature review and its documental analysis and empirical studies through interviews and questionnaires aimed to candidates, students, applicants, teachers and directors of the CMP, public administrators of the culture and cultural agents from the city of Ponta Grossa, and they were analyzed from a qualitative approach. The results of the research allow us to say that, regardless all limitations on material, political and human behalf on the CMP as a public institution of musical teaching, the educational process developed promotes a resizing of the conceptions, expectations, objectives and knowledge about music, art and culture of the students who were there, which contributes to the legitimation of a different social position in relation to the development of the human senses of the amount of people from Ponta Grossa who attends this place. / Este estudo analisa as determinações políticas e sócio-históricas que caracterizaram o Conservatório Maestro Paulino Martins Alves (CMP) de Ponta Grossa, Paraná, durante o período compreendido entre os anos 1971 e 2014. Os objetivos da pesquisa foram: 1) compreender a natureza e a dimensão educacional e cultural do CMP a partir das evidências empíricas do seu movimento interno e dos seus intervenientes externos; 2) problematizar as possibilidades e limites do CMP na promoção do acesso à cultura musical como elemento de humanização dos sentidos à população que o frequenta, tendo em vista os moldes da sua gênese, do seu desenvolvimento e da sua concreção na realidade ponta-grossense. A argumentação da tese sustenta-se prioritariamente nos fundamentos teórico-metodológicos marxistas, especialmente na dimensão ontológica do pensamento estético e social desenvolvido por Marx e Engels que reconhece a arte como uma das formas de objetivação do ser social. Em consonância a essa perspectiva, são consideradas as argumentações formuladas por Lukács sobre a arte, o processo de constituição do homem em sua generidade e seu papel na emancipação humana. A pesquisa envolveu estudos teóricos relativos à revisão de literatura e à análise documental e estudos empíricos por meio de entrevistas e questionários dirigidos a candidatos, alunos, egressos, professores e diretores do CMP, gestores públicos da cultura e agentes culturais da cidade de Ponta Grossa, analisados a partir de uma abordagem qualitativa. Os resultados da pesquisa permitem afirmar que, não obstante todas as limitações de ordem material, política e humana que incidem no CMP como instituição pública de ensino musical, o processo educativo desenvolvido promove um redimensionamento das concepções, expectativas, objetivos e conhecimentos sobre música, arte e cultura dos alunos que o acessaram, o qual colabora tanto para a legitimação de um posicionamento social distinto quanto para o desenvolvimento dos sentidos humanos da parcela da população de Ponta Grossa que o acessa.