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Dalcroze Method

Christopher Hover

Philosophy and why it was developed

The human body is the first instrument

Developed by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

The method enforces that body movement and music are one and the same.

Developed to push a more Kinesthsia basis in music pedagogy

Goals of this method

The most important key to this method is imagination

The Goal

Eurhythmics- rhythmic movement

Getting the student to move with the music and develop better understanding of musicality

Ear Training- solfege and solfege- rhythmique

Having the student develop their inner ear. Having the student use body language and motion to understand the intervals of pitches.

Improvisation

To push the student to expressing themselves by using all the musical knowledge they have in their arsenal.

How is the method used to instruct

Instructed How?

Movement

This is instructed by manipulating movement to work with the students musicality and rhythm

Movement

Singing

With the use of sofege hand signs and, students and see visually the difference between, for example, Sol and Do. With improvisational exercises there can be a beginning process of developing the inner ear and open the door to students using their creative knowledge of music to complete a response of a call and response.

Aural Skills

With the help of a fixed-do system, children can develop a pitch sense with the sue of their ears, muscles, and the mind. With movement exercises (snowman melting activity) students can begin to hear the difference of pitches as they descend or ascend

Rhythm

With movement activities (quarter note = walk, and so on) students can internalize rhythms through an eventful lesson

Rhythm

Notation

Write out a measure phrase and have students complete the next measure with their own creative expressions

Notation

Instruments

With movement and aural training exercises, students can continue the process of developing a better internal pitch and have a better sense of technique

Musical materials used

  • Use of staff paper
  • Piano
  • a classroom mascot

Materials

What's going on in the class

Principal

Kids are engaged with being able to move and use all of that energy for music lesson purposes. The teacher is able to use this engaging method to teach kids the difference between short and long notes, for example. Music and motion are connected and work as a great teacher to show musicality, rhythms, and basic aural developmental skills.

What is the instructional sequence

Instructional Sequence

Hearing to moving, moving to feeling, feeling to sensing, sensing to analyzing, analyzing to reading, reading to writing, writing to improvising, improvising to performance

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