Resumo

A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar as opiniões de violinistas egressos do Centro Suzuki de Santa Maria sobre o método Suzuki, descrevendo as influências do método na vida pessoal desses instrumentistas, examinando as contribuições do ensino através do método e analisando algumas críticas feitas ao método. Neste estudo empreguei o método de survey. Através dele foram selecionados quatorze ex-alunos que começaram a estudar violino pelo método Suzuki com a professora irmã Wilfried. As informações foram coletadas por meio de questionário enviado eletronicamente. Os dados foram confrontados com a literatura sobre o método Suzuki apresentada neste trabalho através de textos do próprio Suzuki (1994) e de outros autores, como Penna (1998a, 1998b), Gerling (1989), Mark (1986), Priest (1989), Hargreaves (1986), entre outros. Entre os resultados desta investigação, pude constatar uma forte concordância com o método por parte dos investigados. Além disso, a maioria deles considera o método Suzuki como o melhor método para o ensino da música e do instrumento, principalmente no que se refere ao ensino para crianças e à sociabilidade que se dá através do tocar em grupo.

This study aimed to investigate the opinions from violinists that all came from Santa Maria's Suzuki Center, about the Suzuki Method. More specifically, it aimed to describe the influences of the method on the violinists’ private life, to point out the contributions the method has to offer as a teaching method as well as to analyse critics made to it. The method chosen to carry out this study was the small scale survey, where fourteen ex-students that were tought by sister Wilfried were investigated. All the information was gathered by means of sent electronically. The data was finally crossed with literature, presented thought the questionnaires work of Suzuki (1994), Penna (1998a,1998b), Gerling (1989), Mark (1986), Priest (1989), Hargreaves (1986), among others. As one of the most important results, one can notice a vast support to the method by t he people surveyed. Moreover, most of them consider the Suzuki Method the best one to teach music and the instrument, mainly for teaching children and because of the benef its and socialization it offers by group playing.