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- EditorialPublication . Martins, Fernando Mena
- ApresentaçãoPublication . Barbosa, David Sampaio; Paiva, José Pedro
- O enigma do Homem: entre imagem de Deus e animalPublication . Martins, António Manuel AlvesA emergência do humano na cadeia evolutiva das espécies assinala um salto ontológico. Enquanto a antropologia bíblica sublinha a diferença do Homem em relação à matéria e aos demais animais (o ser imagem de Deus), as teorias evolutivas evidenciam, por seu lado, o parentesco do Homem com o Animal, no phylum dos primatas. O presente artigo procura estabelecer um diálogo com as teorias evolutivas, sem ter de comprometer a especificidade da antropologia cristã. No âmbito da continuidade evolutiva, acontece uma descontinuidade ontológica, expressa tradicionalmente pelo conceito de «alma» (o momento ontológico que configura humanamente a matéria). Sem deixar de ser animal, o Homem é criação pessoal de Deus, acontecimento relacional. Ele é, pois, o único animal capaz de dar nome às coisas e de tentar decifrar o enigma da sua vida e da sua origem.
- Music, arts and intercultural education: the artistic sensibility in the discovery of the otherPublication . Sousa, Maria do RosárioThe present article presents a doctoral investigation. It mainly focuses on an action research whose problematic is based on the search for didactic-pedagogical paths which contribute to intercultural openness and change within schools allowing for better social integration. We have chosen the trilogy music, arts education and interculturality to address the central problematics of this research. Therefore an Intercultural Musical Program was conceived, implemented and assessed in three Portuguese Elementary/Preparatory schools. The main leading forces guiding this Program are attached to four areas, which constitute the theoretical/conceptual frame of this research: Artistic education as a priority in education; • Intercultural education as a response to a growing cultural diversity; The role of music as an harnessing methodology for intercultural communication; Arts Programs as globalising impulses for human development and the preservation of cultural heritage. The empirical work rests on a methodology of qualitative analysis based on Renald Legendre’s (1993, 2005) model of Pedagogical Relationship (PR), combined with a strong influence of Visual Anthropology. The attained results are indicators of the high relevance and participation, as well as of the transforming impact of this action research, as a facilitator of intercultural communication and education among communities.
- Antagonism and mutual dependency: critical models of performance and “piano interpretation schools”Publication . Cruz, Rui; Lourenço, SofiaTo polarize and, coincidently, intersect two different concepts, in terms of a distinction/analogy between “piano interpretation schools” and “critical models” is the aim of this paper. The former, with its prior connotations of both empiricism and dogmatism and not directly shaped by aesthetic criteria or interpretational ideals, depends mainly on the aural and oral tradition as well the teacher-student legacy; the latter employs ideally the generic criteria of interpretativeness, which can be measured in accordance to an aesthetic formula and can include features such as non-obviousness, inferentially, lack of consensus, concern with meaning or significance, concern with structure or design, etc. The relative autonomy of the former is a challenge to the latter, which embraces the range of perspectives available in the horizon of the history of ideas about music and interpretation. The effort of recognizing models of criticism within musical interpretation creates the vehicle for new understandings of the nature and the historical development of Western classical piano performance, promoting also the production of quality critical argument and the communication of key performance tendencies and styles.
- The status of interactivity in computer art: formal aporiesPublication . Pinto, João CastroContemporary art, particularly that which is produced by computer technologies capable of receiving data input via interactive devices (sensors and controllers), constitutes an emerging expressive medium of interdisciplinary nature, which implies the need for a critical look at its constitution and artistic functions. To consider interactive art as a form of artistic expression that files under the present categorization, implies the acceptance of the participation of the spectator in the production of the work of art, supposedly at the time of its origin / or during its creation. When we examine the significance of the formal status of interactivity, assuming as a theoretical starting point the referred premises and reducing it to a phenomenological point of view of artistic creation, we quickly fall into difficulties of conceptual definitions and structural apories [1]. The fundamental aim of this research is to formally define the status of interactive art, by perpetrating a phenomenological examination on the creative process of this specific art, establishing crucial distinctions in order to develop a hermeneutics in favor of creation of new perspectives and aesthetic frameworks. What is interactive creation? Is interactivity, from the computing artistic creativity point of view, the exponentiation of the concept of the open work of art (ECO 2009)? Does interactive art correspond to an a priori projective and unachievable meta-art? What is the status of the artist and of the spectator in relation to an interactive work of art? What ontic and factical conditions are postulated as necessary in order to determine an artistic product as co-created? What apories do we find along the progres- sive process of reaching to a clarifying conceptual definition?This brief investigation will seek to contribute to the study of this issue, intending ultimately, and above all, to expose pertinent lines of inquiry rather than to provide definite scientific and aesthetic answers.
- EditorialPublication . Caires, Carlos Sena
- The professional learner and performer: investigating the field of higher education and expertise development for learning and performing the double bass - a global surveyPublication . Pertzborn, FlorianThis study investigates the field of higher education and expertise development for learning and performing the double bass. The aim is to draw a picture of how the double bass is currently learned and performed by the learning student, the supervising professor and the performer working in a symphony orchestra, to find out whether if there were any significant differences between the three groups in their approaches to practice and performance. Results indicated that the achievement of expertise on the double bass is multifaceted and implies the development of multiple tasks and skills which soon have to be fostered and experienced in the field of learning and performing. Significant differences between the three groups were detected in the area of demography, experiences, knowledge, and their approaches to practice. Recommendations and implications for further investigation indicate that a wider perspective of learning, practice, self-evaluation in combination of the usage of technology for practice support and feedback should be taken into account for enhancing performance ability for the double bass.