Research Catalog

Title

Expressive singing : Dalcroze eurhythmics for voice / J. Timothy Caldwell.

Author

Caldwell, J. Timothy, 1945-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1994], c1995.

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Details

Description

xiv, 177 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Subject

• Exercise music
• Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile, 1865-1950
• Musical meter and rhythm
• Singing > Instruction and study
• Eurythmics

Genre/Form

Exercise music

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

One voice teacher's education -- The Eclectic Voice Teacher -- Why the Dalcroze Method? -- Vocal mythology -- Emile Jacques-Dalcroze -- Biography -- Influences -- First Principles -- The Dalcroze Methodology -- The Dalcroze equation -- Space, Energy, and Plasticity -- Time -- Weight -- Balance -- Plasticity -- The normative measure and its effect -- Arrhythm -- Errhythm -- Eurhythm -- Effect of the Normative Measure -- Understanding music through kinesthetics -- Affect and Movement -- The Dance of Affect -- Playing Detective -- Skills for Expressive Reading -- Improvisation -- Proaction and Reaction -- Improvisation -- Three Exercises in Plasticity -- Mirror Exercises -- Exercises that Develop Ability to Improvise Text or Music -- Exercises in Gibberish -- Musical Gibberish -- Rhythmic solfege -- Fixed do System -- Comparison of German and French Theories -- The behaviors for learning -- Paying Attention -- Turning Attention to Concentration -- Remembering -- Reproducing the Performance -- Changing -- Automating -- Putting the Dalcroze Methodology to Work -- Musical rules -- Aesthetic Choices -- Two Assumptions -- What Makes a Performance Expressive? -- General Rules of Phrasing -- Rules of Accentuation -- Rules of Nuance -- Applying eurhythmics to technique -- Performer Controls -- Voice Classification -- Breathing -- Articulation -- Coordinating Ear and Voice -- Coordinating Ear and Body -- Affect and its Effect on Technique -- Three Methods of Processing Information -- Three Forms of Kinesthesia.

ISBN

0130452955

LCCN

^^^94002030^/MN

OCLC

• 29704274
• SCSB-10046686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library