The Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom

Inspired by Dalcroze-eurhythmics, this book is a practical guide for teachers and students interested in integrating the moving body into the aural skills classroom. Author Diane J. Urista focuses on movement-to-music as a tool for developing musical perception and the kinesthetic aspects of performance. As this book demonstrates, moving to music and watching others move cultivates an active, multi-sensory learning experience in which students learn by discovery and from each other. The book features a wealth of exercises that teach rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and formal concepts, including improvisation and expressive exercises. These exercises not only develop the ear, but also awaken the muscular and nervous system, foster mind-body connections, strengthen the powers of concentration, develop inner-hearing, short- and long-term memory, multi-tasking skills, limb autonomy, and expressive freedom. Exercises are presented in a graded but flexible order allowing readers to select individual exercises in any sequence. Activities involve movement through space as well as movement in place for those teaching in small classrooms. The book can be used as a teacher's manual, a supplementary aural-skills textbook, or as a stand-alone reference in a course dedicated to eurhythmics. Many exercises also provide an effective aural/sensory tool in the music theory classroom to complement verbal explanations. The approach integrates easily into any traditional college or conservatory classroom and is compatible with fixed do, moveable do, and scale degrees. A companion website features undergraduate students performing select exercises. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/movingbodyauralskillsclassroom

Auteur

Diane Urista is on the music theory faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students.

Contenu

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 vs. 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 Chapter 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 Inhibition and Excitation Interference Imitation and Canon Disassociation Chapter 2: Warm ups Chapter 3: Rhythm I: Basic Rhythmic Concepts and Terminology (to the instructor and students) Time-Point vs. Gestural-Rhythm Beat Meter Rhythmic Nuance Definitions of Accents and Poetic Feet Expressing Gestural Rhythms Pedagogical Tips for Teaching Rhythm Exercises (to the instructor) II: Rhythmic Subjects 1. Beat, Pulse, & Tempo 2. Meter-Simple and Compound 3. Augmentation-Rhythmic Duration and Expansion 4. Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters 5. Rests & Pauses-The Expression of Silence 6. Dotted Rhythm 7. Syncopation 8. Gestural Rhythmic Patterns 9. Cross Rhythms and Polyrhythms 10. Changing Meters 11. Uneven Meters 12. Additive Rhythms 13. Polymeters and Cross Rhythms Chapter 4: Pitch, Scale, and Melody 1. The Scale-to and from tonic 2. Tonal Centering, Retention, and Recall 3. Relative Pitch & 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 Chapter 5: Harmony 1. Chords-Harmonic Building Blocks from the Scale 2. Inversions-Triads and Seventh Chords 3. Embodying Harmonic Function 4. Modulation 5. Embodying/Integrating Harmonic Progressions Chapter 6 1. Phrase 2. Forms 3. Plastique Animèe Additional Plastique Animée