Leitura à primeira vista na formação de pianistas profissionais

Abstract

This research consists of a study of practices, knowledge, skills inherent to pianists working in professional fields where at first sight reading competence is required. Its main objective is to investigate the formation of professional pianists and to understand how the learning process of the knowledge that enabled them to read expressively at first sight, that is, in high performance. For this, firstly through a bibliographic research we define reading at first sight and know the skills involved. In a documentary research we verified in the flowcharts of the Brazilian universities that offer music course as the theme of reading at first sight at the piano is contemplated. To gather data on the formation of selected pianists we conducted an exploratory research through a semi-structured interview. By sampling, we selected eleven Brazilian pianists who stand out on the national scene as excellent performers in first sight reading, of which seven participated in the research. The results indicate that the formation of these pianists has in common the acquisition of competences in an empirical way, also through experimentation, the means of musical coexistence and influences that they had in the initial phase of learning and the opportunity to work. Moreover, within the field of formal study, it was noticed that everyone benefited from the following aspects: how the traditional piano repertoire was approached, the possibility of playing chamber works, the technical-interpretative development and the theoretical knowledge.