O ensino de Música na Banda Santa Rita dos Impossíveis: relatório de prática de ensino

Abstract

This report describes the process of teaching music in Banda Santa Rita dos Impossíveis, from Marechal Deodoro–Alagoas, showing the band as a space that promotes music education for young people from the Riacho Velho village. This work describes the formation process of Musical Society Santa Rita dos Impossíveis and how the society maintains the main band and a group of beginner students. The study presents the experiences lived by the author while working as a teacher and conductor in the main band of the project, and discusses the results obtained with this practice. Specifically, the development of group music classes, band rehearsals and the strategies developed before and during the work were reported. The study also describes the period of online classes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and the process of resuming the band's face-to-face activities, using the Da Capo method as the main pedagogical book. This report also addresses the process of choosing and adapting the repertoire, focusing on the band's technical level and the rehearsal methodology for learning this repertoire, focusing on the practice of collective teaching. After the completion of this work, it was observed that the band's activities were hampered with the suspension of face-toface classes during the pandemic. On the other hand, it was found that the use of the Da Capo method generated excellent results, however, there was a need to complement the content with other methods for more advanced students. The parameters used for the selection of the Christmas repertoire and the adaptations made in the pieces made it possible to include beginner students in the main band and the result of the Christmas 2021 presentation showed that the methodology used in the rehearsals worked satisfactorily with the group.