Afinidades e impasses nas atividades de formação de músicos universitários: um estudo com quatro discentes da UFC – Campus Sobral

Abstract

This work proposes to investigate possible impasses and more relevant contributions that the Music course at the Federal University of Cear á , Campus Sobral , provides to Instrumental Musician students, who share their graduation in Music with professional musical performance outside the academic environment, either as a singer, instrumentalist or independent musician. The r esearch methodology was carried out through a qualitative approach and had as a sample four students of the UFC Music course Campus Sobral, who answered a questionnaire with questions related to their professional and personal musical activity and also r eferring to their formative experien ces. in the Music course. For the reflections, it was deemed necessary to make a brief analysis of the PPC of the Course, in order to identify the formative activities that are most associated with the development of the instrumentalist musician and also t o know the disciplines destined to scientific and pedagogical formation. In order to be aware of the demands, university curriculum, learning processes and the motivations of popular musicians to study music, studies of articles, specialized books and shar ed musical dialogues were necessary. Finally, a compilation of the information obtained in these readings is made with the answers given by the participants in the questionnaire, in order to discuss the bonuses and burde ns of these training activities in r elation to the musical performance of these professionals. The results indicate that the previous musical experiences of the participants were decisive for a better use of the disciplines destined to the musical practice , as well as a motivational factor f or the permanence in the course.