Summer Course at the Levine School
of Music
Strathmore Music Center, Bethesda, MD
August 4-6, 2008
Enhance your teaching with movement, games, songs, and stories from MusiKinesis!
MusiKinesis streamlines traditional Dalcroze training to focus on utility in the classroom. In addition to eurhythmics, the course includes solfege studies designed for flexibility, basic piano improvisation for the classroom, and special topics including percussion, stories for music and movement, pertinent music literature, principles of movement technique, and more. By providing specific strategies, outlines for lesson development, and clear examples of sequential teaching units, the course delivers maximum impact on participants’ teaching.
When: Monday, August 4 – Wednesday, August 6, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Where: Levine School of Music's Maryland Strathmore Site.
Tuition: $280
To register, download the brochure in PDF, and use the registration form included.
General schedule outline:
10:00 – Eurhythmics Class
11:00 – Rhythmic Teaching Applications
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Singing and Improvisation
2:00 – Teaching Tools and Techniques
In Detail:
Eurhythmics Class
The classic foundation of Jaques-Dalcroze’s method, Eurhythmics uses movement as
a way of experiencing music concepts. It involves coordination, concentration,
listening, quick reactions, movement technique and more – all in a supportive,
joyful learning atmosphere. You’ll want to wear comfortable clothing for
movement, and be ready to take off your shoes and socks.
Rhythmic Teaching Applications
Here we take the concepts of the Eurhythmics class and introduce ways for you to
teach them to your own students. You’ll be given concrete music, exercises,
games, stories, and more. With the MusiKinesis texts as reference, you’ll get to
see how the process works first-hand, and learn how it can expand to a wide
range of age levels.
Lunch
Lunch is available for purchase at Strathmore, or you can bring your own.
Singing and Improvisation
Discover songs for teaching, challenging rhythmic/melodic studies, and a solfege
approach that's multi-method friendly (and no-method
friendly!). We'll also explore techniques for percussion improvisation, and
connect melody and rhythm with basic harmony for piano improvisation. Movement,
singing, eartraining, music reading, notation, dictation, improvisation and
composition all come together in this hour.
Teaching Tools and Techniques
The Jaques-Dalcroze philosophy forms the framework for pedagogy. We’ll review
and analyze the day's activities, provide a design for well-sequenced lessons, and
discuss flexible ways to implement activities and ideas for participants' own
teaching needs.
Faculty: Monica Dale