A atividade e a formação de cantores e instrumentistas que atuam na música litúrgica: um olhar sobre a Forania Nossa Senhora da Vitória

Abstract

This research is about singers and instrumentalists training and performance in the liturgy of the catholic church, and it aims to understand the relations between the activity and the professional training of singers and musicians that are active in the parishes liturgy that are part of the Forania Nossa Senhora da Vitória, in São Luís. It presents the main characteristics, the main documents about the liturgical catholic church music, in addition to aspects about its formation. The data collection method presented in this research consists in the use of the qualitative and quantitative approaches, using interviews and open and closed questionaries that were used through Google Forms, and which results are available in this research by using graphics. Besides the identification of an expressive number of singers and instrumentalists that perform in musical ministries dedicated to liturgic service, the results point out the main action particularities and the aspects that can collaborate to the better development of this kind of music. From the results, it is necessary to promote an urgent promotion of more liturgical music training that, besides the liturgy themes, also concerns music theory and practice technical aspects, so it promotes improvements in actions of those who work with liturgical music in São Luís.