Clarinet learning; Listening music; Musical meanings
This research had as general objective to comprise how clarinet students build meanings about the repertoire required in learning this instrument in a specialized music school. The specific objectives were to identify the repertoire practiced by students in clarinet classes, analyze how the receptivity and appropriation of this repertoire occurred and understand how the student’s social context influenced the type of relationship they had with these songs. For the theoretical discussion, contributions from authors who discuss the individual’s socialization (BERGER; LUCKMANN, 1985), the conservatorial habitus present in formal music schools (PEREIRA, 2014) and the meanings that emerge from human experience with musical art (GREEN, 1997). The methodology used was the case study methodology with the use of document analysis, such as the clarinet technical course plan of the researched institution, and were conducted face-to face semi-structured interviews with four students who were in the last year of that course. Of the four research participants, two are from the interior of the state of Pernambuco and the other two are from the metropolitan region of Recife. The socio-cultural context of the interviewees provided the experience of cultural manifestations characteristic of their localities of origin and to this factor was added the musical taste of parents and close relatives that caused influence on the participants. At the school specializing in music education, the four interviewees reported that they had an initial reaction of great strangeness with the exclusively erudite repertoire applied in clarinet classes. The results of the research show that to build the meanings about these songs, the participants used tools such as listening to music and bibliographical research on contextual issues involving the repertoire. These factors allowed a familiarity with these classical music and a better interpretation of the abstract symbols present in western musical notation