Características da atuação do arranjador musical em contextos religiosos, big bands, bandas marciais e conjuntos "da noite".

Abstract

As a general objective, this research aimed to understand the professional performance of arrangers in religious musical groups, marching bands, big bands and musical groups that perform in night clubs. As specific objectives, it intended: a) to reveal the musical formation of the arrangers; b) to describe their inserted teaching activities, occupying the roles of arranger, instructor, conductor and performer, and c) to investigate the methodological resources used in the arrangements’ development, as well as in their teaching. The literature review bring us different definitions for the terms arrangement and musical arranger, as well as specify the types of arrangements, also comprising the musical arranger’s formation and the functions/positions they occupy in popular music contexts. The research has a qualitative approach, and used qualitative interview as data production tool. Two arrangers who work in popular musical groups were interviewed. The results revealed that, in the studied scenarios, there are different musical ensembles with varied instruments. The arrangers acting in these different musical sets come from diverse musical experiences, and use varied methodological resources for the arrangements’ development and their teaching, occupying other musical functions besides arranging.