Um inventário luminoso ou um alumiário inventado - uma trajetória humana de musical formação.

Abstract

The present research work, elaborated as a narrative of personal development contextualizes and discusses the possibilities of Musical Education that were forged from the decade of nineteen eighty in the city of Fortaleza, state: Ceará, Brazil. The inicial focus of the work is the Opera Project introduced at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC); a focus that is extended and opened to the educational and musical action carried out collectively through the choir of this institution – Coral da UFC – during the historical period on which this research centers: 1985–2005. The discussion undertaken here seeks to understand the reasons that led to the introduction of an educational project through setting up an opera that would tell the history of Ceará. At the same time we seek to reflect on the relation that musical knowledge establishes with the elites who take possession of it in order to get social status, as well as the strategies and possibilities of human and musical education for persons originating from economically less favored strata. The research work points out the possibilities of a musical education that is carried out through the pleasure and rigor coming from setting up spectacles of choir singing which are collectively conceived and realized from the body of popular Brazilian songs. Thus, we seek to understand the implications of the Opera Project, its first rehearsals and stagings, as well as the implications of setting up the spectacles of the Coral da UFC, in front of the processes of human-musical education experienced by the spectacle participants, choosing as basis for these reflections the life story narrated here.