Music Fundamentals for Dance is a text for student dancers, choreographers, and dance educators written by an experienced educator and choreographer. This book presents foundational knowledge of the elements of music and describes their application to dance performance, choreography, and teaching. It includes a web resource offering exercises, activities, projects, downloadable examples of music, and web links that provide a range of active learning experiences.

SUMMARY: Guidelines for teaching an understanding and mastery of movement fundamentals which maythen be developed into various dance forms. Lesson plans cover modern dance, ballroom dancing and folk dancing.

Collection of instructions and music for teaching folk dances to people of all ages.

Presents a guide to the fundamentals of tape dance, from beginning to advance levels, including how to follow dance notation, tap dance movements, technique, improvisation, and rhythm and time analysis; includes a chapter on suggested music for tap dance compositions.