O Papel das funções executivas na aprendizagem da improvisação na escola de música de Sobral (CE)

Abstract

Bearing in mind that all the difficulties faced over the years of musical improvisation practice, the lack of access to materials and teachers who knew how to address the subject in a coherent way, research on the role of executive functions in the learning of improvisation: a study with the ensemble practice classes at the Sobral Music School (EMS), in order to identify the executive functions used in the teaching of musical improvisation. Therefore, it is necessary to observe the evolution of students in group practice, implement specific activities in detail in both types of teaching, rational and intuitive, and understand the executive functions and the main skills involved during the improvisation learning process. A field research is then carried out with a qualitative approach with the two groups of students of the practical discipline of the EMS as a whole. In view of this, it appears that according to the results obtained, we point out the frequency of the main executive functions during all improvisation classes, which imposes the verification that musical improvisation is capable of bringing autonomy to the subject not only in thinking, but also in but also in decision making, cognitive flexibility, problem solving, planning and inhibitory control.