Bioenergética: um caminho de auxílio no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do violino

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Renata Simões Borges da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Música; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Música; Práticas interpretativas - violino; Ensino de instrumento; Bioenergética; Performance; Pedagogia instrumental-vocal; Violin; Bioenergetics; Instrument education; ARTES::MUSICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6597

Playing an instrument is turning on muscular, affective and mental mechanisms that are closely related. Therefore, in a performance preparation, it is expected from the instrumentalist not just the understanding of the musical speech, but the assimilation and perfection of the motor patterns that will be part of the needed corporal action for the technical accomplishment of this speech as well. In this process, one of the goals of the instrumentalist is to become aware of tension points in their body that can potentially prevent a more free technical execution, looking for ways to minimize or eliminate them. According to the Bioenergetics Analysis, a psychotherapy approach created by Alexander Lowe in 1956, the muscle tensions are the result of emotional blocks, being created most of the times since childhood and developed throughout life. These tensions work as armours , which protect the individuals from experiences that could be painful and threatening, turning into an obstacle to the human being capacity to relate to their sensations and emotions and, consequently, of feeling free, whole and in contact with the world around them. Going beyond the investigation about human psyche that, before the middle of last century, focused mainly on mind exploration, the Bioenergetics takes the patients, through exercises, to reunite with their body, acquiring a sense of well-being and inner peace. Based on this knowledge and understanding that the violin student starts his instrument learning having already some muscle tensions due to emotional matters and that these tensions could hinder their musical expressivity on the same way they can interrupt his spontaneity in life, this work presents, analyses and discusses the contributions of Bioenergetics exercises to the development of the technical-expressive capacity of violin students, based on the application of exercises of this field to violinists during their formation process and performance. In order to do so, initially, questionnaires were applied and interviews with the participants of this research were conducted, collecting information about their physical condition and, more specifically, about their muscle tensions. Having this information, Biogenetics exercises, both in their original format or specifically adapted to violin learners, were applied to these participants throughout several meetings. The results of these exercises have been verified through participant observation and constant reports from the participants containing their own perceptions and sensations throughout this work. An interview was conducted two months after the research, according to which it was possible to conclude that most of the participants became more aware of their own body, emotions and sensations, both on their daily life and in the act of performance. Having also been effective in raising awareness and reducing several of the muscle tensions in the participants, the Bioenergetics exercises gave these individuals a looser body that is connected to the instrument, besides a deeper body-mind integration in the act of performance. And that has naturally facilitated their technical and expressive capacity.