O ENSINO DE MÚSICA NO MARANHÃO (1860-1912): uma ênfase nos livros escolares de Domingos Thomaz Vellez Perdigão e Antonio Claro dos Reis Rayol

Abstract

It approaches the teaching of music in Maranhão school institutions in the period from 1860 to 1912, with emphasis on the works of authors Domingos Thomaz Vellez Perdigão and Antonio Claro dos Reis Rayol. Its seeks to identify the school institutions of Maranhão who ministered the teaching of music, check the pedagogical aspects implied by in the teaching of music and analyze the works about music of Perdigão and Rayol. This investigation is centralized in the field of Cultural History, dialoguing with Certeau (2012), Elias (1993; 2001) and Veiga (2007). It is used the bibliographic research and the documentary research, having like sources teaching's regulations, curriculum programs, legislation, reports of the Province's Presidents and the Governor's messages, public instruction reports and newspapers. It describes the musical movement in Brazil and Maranhão context based on Kiefer (1976), Carvalho Sobrinho (2004; 2010; 2011), Amaral, S. (2001), Jansen (1976), among others. It seeks for comprehending the history of this teaching in Moacsyr (1936), Andrade, C. (2013), Bittencourt (2008), Fonterrada (2005), Holler (2010), Castro (2007; 2009; 2013), Motta and Nunes (2008), Castellanos (2010; 2011), Fagerlande (2011), Binder; Castagna (1998), Administrative, commercial and industrial Almanak (1861-1869). This concerns of school institutions of São Luís that offered music lessons in primary instruction, secondary and professional and also private lessons, and teachers who were acting in this discipline. Check up the pedagogical aspects implied by in this teaching, studying the content covered in the classroom, the methods, the valuations, the dominant thinking in the educational environment and printed school material circulating in the period. Analyzes the school books: Elementary Principles of Music: 10 Lessons (1869) and Music's Notions: extrahidas of the best authors (1902), written by Dominic Thomaz Vellez Perdigão and Antonio dos Reis Claro Rayol, respectively. Consider themselves the content, the presentation, the public and the purposes for which they were intended. It was found that these works were relevants to the constitution of teaching music in Maranhao in eight hundred and the beginning of the Republic. Expected to that this research provides important contributions to the field of the history of Brazilian education, particularly on the teaching music.