A pedagogia musical do canto orfeônico e a sua configuração como disciplina escolar no Atheneu Sergipense (1931-1956)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to understand how the Orpheonic Singing discipline was set in the Atheneu Sergipense school curriculum between the years 1931 to 1956. Though the analyzed period corresponds to that of two educational reforms, the delimitation of this study was due to the locus of analysis, the Atheneu Sergipense, and the location of the documents related to the teaching of the discipline in the institution. The initial milestone is the same as the year in which compulsory singing was established in the secondary school curriculum at the national level according to Federal Decree No. 19,890 of April 18, 1931. Based on the concepts of School Discipline, according to André Chervel (1990), School Culture, according to Dominique Julia (2001) and Viñao Frago (2008), and Curriculum, in accordance with Ivor Goodson (1995), this research has a documental and historiographic approach and took as sources the on educational legislation (deliberated in the selected time frame) issued at national and local level, Sergipe newspapers, teaching manuals related to the teaching of that subject, as well as administrative and pedagogical documents of the Atheneu Sergipense, namely: memos, attendance books, log books, correspondence and gradebooks, stored at the Center of Education and Memory of Ath-eneu Sergipense, at the Sergipe’s Historical and Geographical Institute, at the Philharmonic Society of Sergipe and at the Epifânio Dória Public Library. Supported by the methodological contributions of Cultural History, this study made it possible to understand how the Orpheonic Singing was present in the school culture of the Atheneu Sergipense and to what extent was its performance outside the school. The results obtained based on the analysis of the sources con-sulted indicate that, in the institution, the teaching of the discipline mostly met what established the educational law in place at the time. Moreover, the contents located in the gradebooks re-ferred to the educational demands of the political regime of the time, however, the presentations outside the school displayed patriotic exaltation content and extolling of the then president, Getúlio Vargas.