As características musicais da comunicação entre adulto e bebê e suas implicações no desenvolvimento cognitivo musical da criança no primeiro ano de vida

Abstract

As a kindergarten music teacher for over fifteen years, I have seen the happiness of the babies in each of ours classes and observed their motor, vocal and inter-social development at the end of each year. This context motivated me to develop this research which aims to investigate the musical characteristics of the communication between adults and babies from zero to twelve months years old and their influences on childs musical and cognitive development in the first year of life. For this purpose, a theoretical study was developed. The theories of Piaget (1966), Vygotsky (1984), Winnicott (1996), Wallon (1975) and Spitz (1987) were studied as well as the music development theories of François Delalande (1995) and Edwin E. Gordon (2000). Four researches concerning babies vocal (PARIZZI, 2009), inter-social (BEYER, 2008), sensory and motor (CARNEIRO, 2006) and emotional development (STAHLSCHMIDT, 2002) were also studied. Then, connections between these theories with the concepts of communicative musicality (MALLOCH, 1999/2000) and intuitive parenting (PAPOUSEK M.; PAPOUSEK, H., 1996) were made. The results suggest that there has been a rich dialogue between these two concepts and the ideas of the authors weve studied, which reinforces the significance of Mallochs (1999/2000) and Papouseks ideas (1996), specially for music educators.