The Influences of the French Flute School on Brazilian Flute Pedagogy
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The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2017 The Influences of the rF ench Flute School on Brazilian Flute Pedagogy Fabiana Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer, Fabiana, "The Influences of the rF ench Flute School on Brazilian Flute Pedagogy" (2017). Dissertations. 1401. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1401 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRENCH FLUTE SCHOOL ON BRAZILIAN FLUTE PEDAGOGY by Fabiana Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School and the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Approved: ________________________________________________ Dr. Danilo Mezzadri, Committee Chair Associate Professor, Music ________________________________________________ Dr. Kim Woolly, Committee Member Associate Professor, Music ________________________________________________ Dr. Jacqueline McIlwain, Committee Member Assistant Professor, Music ________________________________________________ Dr. Joseph Brumbeloe, Committee Member Associate Professor, Music ________________________________________________ Dr. Edward Hafer Committee Member Associate Professor, Music _______________________________________________ Dr. Richard Kravchak Director, School of Music ________________________________________________ Dr. Karen S. Coats Dean of the Graduate School May 2017 Copyright by Fabiana Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer 2017 Published by the Graduate School ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCES OF THE FRENCH FLUTE SCHOOL ON BRAZILIAN FLUTE PEDAGOGY by Fabiana Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer May 2017 In the second half of the twentieth century, flute teaching in Brazil improved considerably. The immigration of French flutists to Brazil and the exchange programs where Brazilian flutists went to study in France made a significant impact on the flute pedagogy in Brazil. This dissertation traces the influence of the French Flute School in Brazil by presenting the careers of the four most influential flutists living in Brazil today and how they can be traced back to the legendary flutist and teacher Paul Taffanel. Two of these flutists, Odette Ernest Dias and Jean-Nöel Saghaard, are French but moved to Brazil in the second part of the twentieth century to join the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. They performed and taught in distinguished universities and festivals over several decades, perpetuating the teachings of the French Flute School. Furthermore, along with Dias and Saghaard, two Brazilian flutists are presented, Celso Woltzenloegel and Antonio Carrasqueira. Woltzenloegel and Carrasqueira both studied in France with important teachers of the French Flute School and subsequently returned to Brazil to teach at major universities and festivals. Moreover, this research defines the characteristics of the French Flute School and how its development was paralleled in Brazil prior to the influence of these four flutists. Additionally, a comparison between the first Brazilian flute method, Celso Woltzenloegel’s Método Ilustrado de Flauta, and the important French method, Taffanel- ii Gaubert’s Méthode Complète de Flûte, is presented as the fundamental evidence of the French influence on Brazilian flute pedagogy. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Danilo Mezzadri, for his support and contributions to all aspects of this dissertation. Without his guidance and feedback, this research would not have been possible. I also would like to express my appreciation to my committee members for their scholarly inputs and assistance. And extend my deepest gratitude to Luiz Fernando Barbosa Jr. and Felipe Wieczorek Villa Boas for their help with the interviews I had to conduct in Brazil. A very special thank to Dr. Susan Ruggiero for her valuable suggestions and advice during the last stages of this research. iv DEDICATION The completion of this dissertation has been a truly life-changing experience for me and it would not have been possible without the support and encouragement that I received from many people. To those I dedicate this work. I would like to thank my mother for never ceasing to support me during the long days I spent writing this document. I also would like to thank my family for their love and inspiration. And last but not least, I would like to thank my husband, Samuel Dahmer, for his support, love, advice, and encouragement throughout this journey. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................. iv DEDICATION .................................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................... viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ............................................................................................. ix LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES ..................................................................................... x CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER II – THE FRENCH FLUTE SCHOOL ............................................................ 5 CHAPTER III – THE FRENCH FLUTE SCHOOL IN BRAZIL .................................... 22 The arrival of the Boehm Flute and the foundation of a Brazilian Flute School .......... 22 The link to the French Flute School of Taffanel ........................................................... 29 Ambassadors of the French Flute School in Brazil ...................................................... 34 Odette Ernest Dias (b.1929) ...................................................................................... 34 Jean-Noël Saghaard (b.1930) .................................................................................... 37 Celso Woltzenloegel (b.1940) .................................................................................. 40 Antonio Carrasqueira (b.1952) ................................................................................. 43 CHAPTER IV – THE FLUTE METHOD BY CELSO WOLTZENLOEGEL: A COMPARISON BETWEEN IT AND THE TAFFANEL-GAUBERT METHOD. ........ 49 CHAPTER V - CONCLUSION ....................................................................................... 82 vi APPENDIX A – INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH ................................... 84 APPENDIX B – INTERVIEWS IN PORTUGUESE ..................................................... 118 APPENDIX C – IRB Approval Letter ............................................................................ 152 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................... 153 vii LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Brazilian professors and their ancestral connection to the French Flute School. ........................................................................................................................................... 32 Table 2. Similarities of the titles in the table of content for each method. ...................... 56 viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Celso Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 45. ................................ 58 Figure 2. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 7. ....................................... 58 Figure 3. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 2. ....................................... 59 Figure 4. Celso Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 56. ................................ 60 Figure 5. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 4. ....................................... 61 Figure 6. Celso Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 45. ................................ 62 Figure 7. Celso Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 50. ................................ 63 Figure 8. Celso Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 48. ................................ 64 Figure 9. A picture of Taffanel taken in the back garden of his home (c.1906) .............. 65 Figure 10. Celso Woltzenloegel’s Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 318. .......................... 79 ix LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES Musical Example 1. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 10. .................... 66 Musical Example 2. Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 59. ......................... 66 Musical Example 3. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 20. .................... 67 Musical Example 4. Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 72. ......................... 67 Musical Example 5. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 92. .................... 68 Musical Example 6. Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p. 96. ......................... 68 Musical Example 7. Taffanel-Gaubert, Méthode Complète de Flûte, p. 99. .................... 69 Musical Example 8. Woltzenloegel, Método Ilustrado de Flauta, p.