Diálogos do Ensino de Violão do Conservatório Estadual de Música Lorenzo Fernândez com a Música Regional do Sertão Mineiro (1961-1986)

Abstract

This study was developed in the context of Cultural History, and has as its object of study the teaching of guitar in its interfaces with regional music from northern Minas Gerais. The objective of the research is to reconstruct the teaching of the guitar at the Conservatório Estadual de Música Lorenzo Fernândez (Celf), discussing how the teaching of this instrument dialogued with regional music from the north of Minas Gerais, from 1961 to 1986. From the mid-1970s the city of Montes Claros experienced a phase of cultural effervescence, led by young musicians from the region who formed several groups, which were constituted with the renewal of the artistic scene of the city and of regional music, in which the groups Raízes, Agreste, Céu e Terra, Aroeira, Tryuna and Terno de São Benedito were present. In the composition of regional music from the north of Minas Gerais, the guitar is an essential instrument to accompany the singing, in the arrangements and in the musical creation. In this context, the research was guided by some guiding questions: How was the social, political, cultural and educational context of Montes Claros when the Lorenzo Fernândez State Conservatory of Music was established? What was the musical scene in Montes Claros and how was the guitar presented in this context? What strategies were produced to recruit teachers to teach the instrument, given the current legislation? How did the teaching process take place in the guitar course at the Celf, and how did the guitar teachers' pedagogical practices develop? Who were the precursors of this teaching in the scope of the Celf and what is their relation with regional music from northern Minas Gerais? How was the dialogue between guitar teaching at the Celf and the great local musical production in the 70s and 80s? The methodological approach of the research includes document analysis and oral history, with the collection of information at the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação Regional do Norte de Minas (Cpdor) at Unimontes, at the Celf archives and interviews with historical subjects. Besides printed documents, we also used iconographic and audiovisual sources preserved in the Conservatory's collection, in private collections and published on websites. For theoretical basis were used studies and publications of various historians, among them, Barros (2004), Pesavento (2003) and Burke (1992); authors who address the History of Education, Brazilian Music and Guitar Teaching, as Lopes and Galvão (2001), Saviani (1998), Blomberg (2011), Andrade (1962), Galilea 2012, Dudeque (1994) and others. As results of the study, it was found that the guitar teaching was offered by the Celf since its foundation, in the course of its history it became the course of greatest demand in this establishment. In the 1970s and 1980s, a period of cultural effervescence in Montes Claros, the Conservatory contributes to the expansion of local culture by training guitarists, becoming another place for meetings and discussions in the musical scene, which favors the formation of groups.