Teoria versus prática no cotidiano da Orquestra de Macaíba

Abstract

The present work aims to expose the importance of music education based on the relationship between theory and practice and their contributions to the continuous development process of music student. Music education and its relationship theory versus practice evolved in the timeline of Greece to the nineteenth century, but twentieth-century teaching methods that are established and able to suggest the proper musical education, where the primacy of the student direct approach by encouraging the maximum of experience before the music. Thus to give a view on the phenomena reported here was developed a case study that compares the thinking of the main architects of the cases considered active music education with the practice of the School of Music Macaíba, especially regarding the activities of orchestra of this institution.