OSUFPB IN FOCUS: STUDY OF MUSICIANS 'PERCEPTION IN RELATION WITH THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DIVERTIMENTO FOR STRINGS OF BÉLA BARTÓK IN FOUR DISTRIBUTIONS FOR THE STRINGS SECTION
Performative practices. Distributions for string section. Musical interpretation. Musical Perception.
The following research aims to study the musical and sensorial perception of the musicians of the Symphony Orchestra of the Federal University of Paraíba (OSUFPB) through the musical interpretation of four previously chosen fragments of the Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz.113, BB.118 (1939) of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as in a function of four distributions for the string section (American Distribution, Variant of the American Distribution, European Distribution and Variant of the European Distribution). The method used was the application of a questionnaire containing eight questions based on the following topics: Intonation; Equalization or Equilibrium; Visual contact; Ensemble of music; Hearing the interpretation of colleagues; Comfort playing in a given distribution; Evaluation of the distribution for the work and the Habit of playing in a given distribution. The perception of OSUFPB musicians was captured through the five-point Likert measurement Scale; it is also pointed out that in order to complement the choice of participants it was requested to include comments of their response in order to broaden the scope of the topics in relation to the distributions. Subsequently, the data were tabulated and statistically analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) to obtain the analysis of Frequency and Percentage. In addition, the results obtained through the software were condensed by the sum of the Negative, Neutral and Positive values of the Likert Scale and finally a Percent Comparative Summary was made with our interpretation for each question and the most relevant comments. The results indicate a greater preference for the American Distribution with a downward slope for the other distributions concluding that the preferences are linked directly with the habit of playing in a certain distribution.