Dalcroze Musicianship
Dalcroze Education creates a stage for students through joyful movement, informing their intuition and building their musical vocabulary. Our carefully sequenced curriculum addresses all aspects of musicianship while offering excellence in music training to develop discipline, determination, and character.
COURSE BENEFITS
Dalcroze Education is divided into three main categories:
In a Dalcroze class, the instructor combines these elements through rhythm games, songs, gesture, and movement.
Certified Dalcroze teachers work in conservatories, universities, public and private schools, early childhood programs, and private studios. Due to the intensive training process and the many sophisticated skills required to be a Dalcroze educator, the number of certified teachers remains small but their impact on music education is significant.
No Dalcroze educator is alike and no class is like any other. The Dalcroze approach allows for incredible variety in teaching styles and methods. There are many different and unique ways that Dalcroze educators have used this approach to lead students to discover how they can embody music.
COURSE BENEFITS
- Learn through movement, teamwork, and the spirit of play
- Develop a profound understanding of musical concepts
- Empower students with leadership, resilience, and empathy
- Foster independence, critical thinking skills, and discipline
- Develop coordination, balance, and awareness
- Prepare for entrance exams including AP Music Theory
In a Dalcroze Eurhythmics class, students are moving in some way: in traveling around the room, or in gestures with hands, arms, heads, or upper bodies. Their movements are responsive to the music in the room. The teacher is probably improvising this music at the piano or on another instrument. (Sometimes recorded or composed music is used.)
The task is typically to move in space using certain guidelines, specific to the musical piece. For example, the teacher may ask the students to walk around the room, stepping the beat. Then, when the students hear a specific cue, they should clap the beat instead. The game continues, with the students challenged to find new ways to express the beat with their body.
The teacher shapes the music not only to the rules of the task, but to what they observe the students doing. The students, in turn, shape their accomplishment of the task to the nature of the music – its tempo, dynamics, texture, phrase structure, and style. Change is a constant in each lesson.
Dalcroze Education is divided into three main categories:
- Eurhythmics engages the body in rhythmic movement and active listening
- Solfège develops internal melody and harmony, along with a holistic response to musical notation
- Improvisation brings out the creative spirit with the voice, an instrument, or the body
In a Dalcroze class, the instructor combines these elements through rhythm games, songs, gesture, and movement.
Certified Dalcroze teachers work in conservatories, universities, public and private schools, early childhood programs, and private studios. Due to the intensive training process and the many sophisticated skills required to be a Dalcroze educator, the number of certified teachers remains small but their impact on music education is significant.
No Dalcroze educator is alike and no class is like any other. The Dalcroze approach allows for incredible variety in teaching styles and methods. There are many different and unique ways that Dalcroze educators have used this approach to lead students to discover how they can embody music.