Inventory on the study of the musical interpretation of university students of music and conservatories

Abstract

Interpreting music as a formative, artistic activity and as a technical-practical, theoretical, formal analytical and professional musicological-historical learning, is a complex task that goes beyond the mere intuition that musicians currently have. This article seeks to gather information on the main aspects that make up the study of musical interpretation at university or conservatory level in order to determine its definition and theoretical description, its application in the artistic processes as well as in the teaching-learning processes of young performers dedicated to the professionalization of music. In this sense, interpreting music, from an academic framework, refers to the historical aspect (a concept dealt with since the mid-twentieth century) whose approach involves the search for fidelity and the use of various research tools in order to approach the idea of how the composer wanted his work to sound when it was created. It also includes aspects of grammatical analysis, of cultural and philosophical contexts, of personal contribution at the moment of executing a musical work, that of expressiveness that goes through multidimensional studies such as the GERMS model, and training and evaluation as a university and conservatory academic aspect.