O ensino do saxofone: uma análise no Conservatório Pernambucano de Música.

Abstract

This research was carried out within the scope of the Pernambuco Conservatory of Music and aimed to analyze how saxophone teachers develop their pedagogical practice. It sought to identify as difficulties that these professionals face in the teaching process, the repertoire, the methods they use in class and how they motivate their students to remain in the study of the saxophone. Data collection instruments, class escorts, semi-structured escorts with teachers and documentary research were used. To support its theoretical foundation, bibliographic readings were made in the area of music education and in its sub-areas of specific themes, such as instrument teaching, about the saxophone and historical aspects of the objects faced. As a result of this research we can conclude that the saxophone teachers of this studied ‘institution, processes aspects that not only in the technical development of the saxophone, but also in its musical development, such as creativity, improvisation and greater harmonic understanding.