The "Try This" Archive

March 2005: A Crusic Challenge, with a March Rythmique by Jaques-Dalcroze. (For teachers and advanced students.)

April 2005: A new/old song, "Little Ants," incorporating pitches on numbers 1-5. (For teaching children.)

May 2005: A look at Jaques-Dalcroze's original armbeats with  leg movements.

June 2005: Three "Clock" songs.

July 2005: Kinesthetic Keyboard preview: "Gavotte Antique," a study in phrasing.

August 2005: An example from Jaques-Dalcroze's Thirty Melodic Lessons.

September 2005: A Jaques-Dalcroze "Back to School" song.

October 2005: "Treats" for the season.

November 2005: A complex rhythmic and spatial exercise from Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.

December 2005: Two Winter Rounds

January 2006: A Fun Floor Pattern

February 2006: A Valentine Round

March 2006: Two Movement Ideas for March

April 2006: An April Song (with a "sneeze!")

May 2006: Simple Suggestions for Student Workshops

June 2006: Crusis and Anacrusis in Tchiakovsky's "June"

July 2006: Stephen Foster's "The Song of All Songs"

August 2006: Story -- "The Little Pine Tree"

September 2006: "Honeybee" -- Children's Song with Anapestic Augmentation

October 2006: Exercise from Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

November 2006: Scott Joplin's Bethena: A Concert Waltz

January 2007: Playing with Piano Variations

February 2007: Ideas for Presidents Day

August 2007: Maria Franzini's "One, Two Buckle my Shoe"