A book for music classes that move! "Eurhythmics for Young Children: Six Lessons for Fall" provides complete, sequenced lessons to give a clear example of the Dalcroze Method in practice. You'll find a wealth of creative ideas for music and movement in preschool and elementary classes, including: - Six stories for creative movement - Songs with piano accompaniments - Page after page of exercises in music and movement - Detailed descriptions of procedures - Teaching tips for working with young children - Creative approaches to pitch studies - Start-up ideas for piano improvisation - Explanation and rationale of the Dalcroze Method

The third and final book in the "Eurhythmics for Young Children" series, "Six Lessons for Spring," like its predecessors, is chock full of creative ideas for music classes that move! Here are lessons on concepts from the basics to changing meter, dynamics, staccato/legato articulation, and much more. "Six Lessons for Spring" is the most season-neutral of the three "Eurhythmics for Young Children" books, and many of its ideas can be used throughout the year. Included are supplementary worksheets teachers can reproduce for reinforcement of skills and concepts. Although described as six "lessons," the "Eurhythmics for Young Children" books are loaded with songs, stories, movement activities and games that can span months in a music education curricula. And children love them!

Eurhythmics, a dynamic, active approach to teaching and learning music, was developed by Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. These complete, sequenced lessons give clear examples of the method in practice. Ideal for preschool and early elementary music classes, the lessons include detailed procedures, stories for creative movement, songs with piano accompaniments, examples for piano improvisation, exercises in rhythmic movement, and supplementary worksheets.

"Of the three elements of music -- rhythm, melody, and harmony -- rhythm has received the least attention from the theorists, yet it is indisputably the basic element without which there is no musical art." Such is the first sentence of this book on use of the body to express musical rhythm. Elsa Findlay is eminently qualified to write on this subject, having been a student of Emile-Jaques Dalcroze, the master himself, also from her own experience in a variety of teaching situations. These included schools of dance and theater, colleges and universities, and The Cleveland Institute of Music, one of the first to offer a BMus degree with a major in eurhythmics. Each chapter concentrates on a different phase of rhythm: tempo, dynamics, duration, metrical patterns, speech and rhythm patterns, phrase and form, pitch and melody, and creative expression. Activities for each phase are outlined in detail and illustrated by charming drawings and photos. Appendices furnish further suggestions for exercises, games, action songs, and suitable music.

Comprised of singing and body movement activities which incorporate the principles of music educator Jaques Dalcroze and using the repertoire of the Suzuki Method®, Movement That Fits was written by Dalcroze educator Joy Yelin who is also knowledgeable about the Suzuki Method®. There is an introduction by the editor, Ken Guilmartin, director of the Center for Music and Young Children and himself a certified Dalcroze instructor. Movement That Fits consists of sequentially structured singing and movement activities presented in easy-to-read outline form. Lifelike drawings and other visual aids accompany each activity along with information about the Dalcroze approach to rhythm, movement and music reading. Suzuki Method® favorites such as "Twinkle" and "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" serve as the basis for the various activities.

Brings together a collection of selected articles, essays and scripted lessons for primary school children by the music educator Heather D. Gell. Acts as a rich source of teaching material in the Dalcroze method of teaching the experience of music through rhythm.