The moving body in the aural skills classroom : a eurhythmics based approach /
The Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom-influenced by Dalcroze-Eurhythmics-is a practical guide for college instructors and students interested in integrating the moving body into the aural skills classroom. The book presents movement exercises for teaching rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and form...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Introduction; I. Purpose; Why the Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom?; Healing the Mind-Body Split in College Music Training; Rhythms from the Body; What Is the Kinesthetic Sense or "Sixth Sense"?; Traditional versus Embodied Approach; Musical Affect and Expressive Performance; II. Methodology; Experience before Analysis; Spiral of Learning; Sensation before Conceptualization; Internalization and Automatisms
- Improvisation: Cultivating One's "Voice"Physiological Evidence; Reflective Stillness: Movement Is Not an End in Itself; III. Getting Started (Notes to the Instructor); Pedagogical Tips; 1. Basics; I. Preliminary Considerations; Physical Form (to the Instructor); Movement Tenets (to the Instructor and Students); Overcoming Inhibitions (to the Instructor); II. Five Fundamental Exercises (to the Instructor and Students); Quick-Reaction Exercises; Inhibition and Excitation Exercises; Interference Exercises; Imitation and Canon Exercises; Disassociation Exercises; 2. Warm-Ups
- Overview (to the Instructor)Warm-Up 2a: Name Game; Warm-Up 2b: High-Five; Warm-Up 2c: Tossing Blind; Warm-Up 2d: Ball of Energy; Warm-Up 2e: Making Shapes-Plasticity; Warm-Up 2f: Mirroring; Warm-Up 2g: Follows; Warm-Up 2h: Motion = [E]?motion; Warm-Up 2i: Sick Puppy; Warm-Up 2j: Walking Attitudes; 3. Rhythm; Overview (to the Instructor and Students); I: Basic Rhythmic Concepts and Terminology (to the Instructor and Students); Time-Point Rhythm versus Gestural Rhythm; Beat; Meter; Rhythmic Nuance; Definitions of Accents and Poetic Feet
- Expressing Gestural Rhythms: Vocalizing, Clapping, and Stepping RhythmsPedagogical Tips for Teaching Rhythm Exercises (to the Instructor); II: Rhythmic Subjects (to the Instructor); 1. Beat, Pulse, and Tempo; 2. Meter-Simple and Compound; 3. Augmentation-by Factors of Two, Three, and Four; 4. Subdivision-by Factors of Two, Three, and Four; 5. Rests and Pauses-The Expression of Silence; 6. Dotted Rhythms; 7. Syncopation; 8. Gestural Rhythmic Patterns; 9. Cross-Rhythms and Polyrhythms; 10. Changing Meter; 11. Uneven Meters; 12. Additive Rhythms; 13. Polymeters; 4. Pitch, Scale, and Melody
- Overview (to the Instructor and Students)Methodology (To the Instructor); Singing Systems (to the Instructor); 1. The Scale-To and From Tonic; 2. Tonal Centering, Retention, and Recall; 3. Relative Pitch and Scale Degree Function; 4. Scalar Fragments-The Scale's Inner Workings; 5. Intervals-A Contextualized Approach; 6. C-to-C Scales-A Comparative Study of Scales; 7. Modulation-Strategies for Singing, Hearing, and Improvising; 8. Sight-Singing and Inner Hearing Strategies; 5. Harmony; Overview (to the Instructor and Students); 1. Chords-Harmonic Building Blocks from the Scale
