The original composition for children’s and juvenile’s voices and its interfaces with contemporaneity, tradition and the neo-folkloric literature

Abstract

The development of choral singing as an essential tool in the field of Music Education makes necessary the investigations on the production didactic-pedagogical teaching materials for basic, médium and advanced choral singing as a tool for music education of children and Young people. The demand for instructional materials that are aligned with the growing research in the areas of children vocal technique, based on the interaction of theoretical and performative areas with the areas of music education, highlight the need for integrated projects in composition, performance, research and music education. Based on the proposals of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) Zoltán Kodály (1882- 1967), and Boysen & Enevold, this paper aims a survey for the production of such materials, as well as the adaptation of existing materials, the composition of original compositions addred the musical teaching, research in the three major areas of music and their interfaces and interdisciplinarity: composition, interpretation / performance and research.