Feel-think: the violin and me. Evelio Tieles and violin teaching in Cuba

Abstract

Since the seventies of the last century, the methodological component of violin teaching in Cuba took roots in the Russian-Soviet school given by the academic link that favored the exchange of renowned teachers and students between both countries. The experiences, contributions and musings of this exchange and teaching process are collected in a book by the pedagogue Evelio Tieles. Its reading motivated the writing of this article whose objective is to highlight the correlated aspects among the Russian-Soviet school and the methodological principles of the teaching-learning process in Cuba, exposed in the book “Feel-Think: The violin and I”, written by Tieles. For this, analytical-synthetic methods, document analysis and interviews with key informants were combined, which made it possible to identify methodological aspects of the teaching-learning process of the teaching of violin and viola in Cuba that have their foundation located in the Russian-Soviet school.