Resumo:
This is an analysis of the proposal of Musical Education offered by the Ivoti
Educational Institute (Instituto de Educação Ivoti IEI) throughout its history. It points
out the relevance and contribution of the teaching of music in the framework of the
school s educational rationale. It starts by discussing in a transversal manner concepts
that function as theoretical guidelines for the research project: curriculum, holistic
training, the value of musical education for human beings and musical education in the
school curriculum in the framework of a holistic training. Beginning in the second
chapter, it analyses, on the basis of the IEI s historical and present records, the place and
importance ascribed to music, both as a regular course and as an optional activity, at the
various stages of the school s history in the towns of Taquari, Santa Cruz, São Leopoldo
and presently in Ivoti. The dissertation describes the disciplines taught in the area of
music, their contents and goals. It names the teachers who were in charge of the classes,
the artistic results that were shown in performances, concerts and artistic excursions
carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil and in other countries. In the
discussion of the school s rationale for the teaching of music and its evolution in the
course of the school s history, it highlights interfaces that associate concrete facts
pointed out in the historical records and the concepts introduced and developed in the
beginning of the dissertation. The conclusion offers a summary of the course of musical
education integrated with the IEI s pedagogical rationale throughout its history and the
results from the documental mapping materialized in the organization and digitalization
of documents on the topic. Thus it breaks ground for other research projects on the basis
of the collected material.