Full list of articles related to thinking about, practicing and teaching Dalcroze.
Dalcroze Strategies and Techniques:
(articles I’ve written for the Dalcroze Society of America)
From the Blog (Musical Subjects):
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Invisible Subjects
Sometimes, to see the whole, we need to look at the parts. But suppose some of the parts are…
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Dynamics
I wonder if some of the other musical subjects are envious of ‘dynamics’. It’s very name sounds like a…
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Rough Sketch
Confession: I frequently have a hard time learning my own music. This is probably not uncommon for composers who…
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Tonality
So, yes, the relationship between two tones is not necessarily black and white (see previous post). Tonality puts those…
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One Small Step…
Whole and half steps are kind of like air. We tend to not pay too much attention to them…
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Picturing Music
I’ve been thinking about representation lately. No, I don’t need a lawyer. I’m talking about how we ‘picture’ music.…
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Meter
Part of a series of posts on the ‘musical subjects‘ I am working with in my classrooms and thinking…
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Subdivision, Simple Meter
Note: this is the first in a series of posts about the musical subjects I am working with in…
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Ostinato of 3 + cross-rhythms
As fall approaches we begin to think of bonfires, homecoming games and ostinatos with cross-rhythms. No? Ok, me neither,…
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Subtraction
In the Drop-in Wednesday morning class series, I realized that I had been doing a mathematics run. The first…
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Divisions of 12
To warm up for this one today I let a gesture or movement unfold as slowly as possible until…
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Beat-Division-Multiple Series in 4/4
Here’s the series we did at the end of today’s drop-in class. It is somewhat of a classic. It’s…
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Quadruple and Triple Time
Another reaction game, this time with a musical signal. You will hear music in a meter of 4 (e.g.…
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5
Measures of 5 are most often broken up into groups of 3’s and 2’s. (The classic model is Brubeck’s…
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Amphibrach: Augmentation and Diminution
Well, if that isn’t the most wonky title for a blog post… It’s less fancy than it sounds. This…
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Beat, division and multiple: an inhibition game
Here is a classic Dalcroze “Inhibition” game. Step and gesture or lightly clap simultaneously. At “feet” stop the feet.…
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Changing Beat
Here we play with beats of 2, 3 and 4 divisions. I start with 3, which I am playing…
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Expanding and Contracting Beats in Duple Meter
In a measure of two beats, the length of beat can change from as low as two divisions (e.g.…
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Musical Subject: Beat
I enjoy working with the subject of ‘beat’. The phenomenon itself is so fundamental it can be a challenge…
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Patterns with 4 beats and 1 rest: Inhibition Game
Step and clap the patterns that you hear. At the signal “hands”, stop the hands and move only the…
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Changing meter: Reaction game
This is the first of a series of posts for adults interesting in practicing eurhythmics on their own. The…