A SELECTED READING LIST
KARIN RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS
AND RELATED MATERIAL:
(for a fuller list of material email: info@themovementofmusic.com )
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GENERAL DALCROZE THEORY
BACHMANN, M-L.1991.Dalcroze Today Oxford: Clarendon Press.
COMEAU, G., 1995. Comparing Dalcroze, Orff and Kodaly. Ontario:
CFORP
DALCROZE, E.J., 1921. Rhythm,Music and Education. London: Dalcroze
Society Inc.
TROISIEME CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DU RYTHME, 22 - 25 JUILLET 1999. Le
Role du rythme pour le développement humain. Geneva: Editions Papillon
EMBODIMENT IN DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS, M-L Juntunen, Oulu, 2004. Oulu University Press
CHILDREN’S TEACHING BOOKS
ARONOFF, F.W., 1969 Music and Young Children. New York: Turning
Wheel Press
ARONOFF, F.W., Move With The Music.New York: Turning Wheel Press
DALE, M., 2000/1/2. Eurhythmics for Young Children: Six Lessons for
Fall Six Lessons for Winter Six Lessons for Spring. Musikinesis
FINDLAY, E., 1971. Rhythm and Movement. Illinois: Summy Birchard
GELL, H., 1949. Music, Movement and the Young Child.. Sydney. The
Australian Publishing Company.
GELL, H., 1997. Heather Gell’s Lessons. Nedland,WA: CIRCME
HASELBACH, B., 1978. Dance Education.Basic Principles and Models
for Nursery and Primary School. London. Schott and Co. Ltd.
HOGE MEAD, V., 1994. Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Todays Music
Classroom. New York: Schott
JOYCE, M., 1984. Dance Technique for Children.,USA, Mayfield
Publishing Company
JOYCE, M., 1994 (Third Edition). First Steps in Teaching Creative
Dance to Children, Ca., USA, Mayfield Publishing Company
VANDERSPAR, E., 1984. The Dalcroze Handbook. London: The Dalcroze
Society Inc.
ARTICLES, THESES, ESSAYS, BOOKLETS AND CHAPTERS
GREENHEAD, K.M., 2000. Anacrusis, Being and Action.Troisième
Congrès International du Rythme,22 - 25 juillet 1999. Le Role du Rythme
pour le développement Humain.Genève. Editions Papillon.pp.134 - 153
MILLS, R. 2003. An Investigation into the Application of Dalcroze
Eurhythmics as a Means of Improving Aural awareness.
www.jsavage.org.uk/classroomresearch/mills/milssresearch.html
GREENHEAD, K., June/July 2003. In The Swing, Muso. Impromptu
Publishing Ltd..Manchester. pp.30 - 31
ODOM, S., 1991. PhD Thesis and Dissertation, Surrey University,
UK.Dalcroze Eurhythmics in England. History of an Innovation in Movement and
Music Education. www.surrey.ac.uk/Dance/research
VANN, J., 2005/1. Getting Music to Move, Libretto. The Assoc. Board
of the Royal Schools of Music.London. pp 6 - 7
RELATED TEXTS: MOVEMENT, DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS
BLOM, L.A., CHAPLIN, L.T., 1988. The Intimate Act of
Choreography.London. Dance Books Ltd.
BLOM, L.A., CHAPLIN, L.T., 1988. The Moment of Movement,London.
London: Dance Books Ltd.
BROWN, SOMMER, 1969. Movement Education: Its Evolution and a Modern
Approach. USA: Addison Wesley Publ.
DOWD, I., 1981. Taking Root to Fly. Northampton, MA.: Contact
Editions
HUMPHREY, D., 1959. The Art of Making Dances. Ed. Pollack,B.,
London. Dance Books
HORST, L., RUSSELL, C., 1987. Modern Dance Forms in Relation to the
Other Modern Arts. Pennington, NJ.: Princeton Book Company
MARTINET, S., 1990. la Musique du Corps. Fribourg: DelVal
DE MALLET BURGESS, T., SKILBECK, N., 2000. The Singing and Acting
Handbook, London. Routledge
SWEIGARD, L.1974 ,Human Movement Potentials London. Harper and Row.
TODD, M.,.1937 The Thinking Body Princeton, NJ. Princeton Book
Company
RELATED TEXTS: ANATOMY IN MOTION, NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, PERCEPTION, KINESTHETICS
ALCANTARA, P. DE, 1997 Indirect Procedures: a musician’s
Guide to Alexander technique. Oxford. Clarendon Press
ALTER, J., 1986. Stretch and Strengthen. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Company
CALAIS-GERMAIN, B., 1993 Anatomy of Movemen.t and 1996 Anatomy of
Movement exercises Seattle, Eastman Press
DELIEGE, I., SLOBODA, J. A. (eds), 1996. Musical Beginnings.The
Origin and Development of Musical Competence. Oxford: OUP
FELDENKRAIS, M., 1988 reprint Awareness Through Movement.London.
Penguin Books
FRANKLIN, E., 1996 Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Human Kinetics
GALLWEY, W. T., 1975 The Inner Game of Tennis. London. Pan Books
GODDARD, S., 1957 A Teacher’s Window into the Child’s
Mind, .Eugene, OR. Fern Ridge Press.
SACKS, O., (revised) 1991. A Leg to Stand On. London: Picador
THOMPSON, K., 1996. The Movement Book. Stafford: Bibliotek Books
RELATED TEXTS: AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY
COOK, N. 1990. Music, Imagination and Culture. Oxford: OUP
GARDNER, H., Frames of Mind
LANGER, S., 1953. Feeling and Form A Theory of Art. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
LEDER, D., 1990. The Absent Body. Chicago. University of Chicago
Press.
SLOBODA, J. A., 1994 reprint The Musical Mind Oxford. Clarendon
Press
STORR, A., 1992. Music and the Mind. London. Harper Collins
IMPROVISATION and KEYBOARD HARMONY
CAMPBELL, L., 1982/6. Sketching at the Keyboard and Sketches for
Improvisation,London: Stainer and Bell
LLOYD, R. and N.,Creative Keyboard Musicianship: Fundamentals of
Music and Keyboard Harmony Through Improvisation. New York, Hagerstown, San
Francisco, London: Harper and Row, Publishers
PILLING, D., 1950 - 1962. Harmonisation of Melodies at the Keyboard
Vols 1, 2 and 3 and Key to the Harmonisation of Melodies at the Keyboard Vols
1, 2 and 3, London and Manchester: Forsyth Bros. Ltd.
RELATED TEXTS: TEACHING, MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
HASELBACH, B., (reprinted) 1994. Improvisation, Dance, Movement.
London: Schott and Co. Ltd.
SALZBERGER, et al., The Emotional Experience of Learning and
Teaching. Routledge.
TECK, K., 1994. Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer’s Guide
to Music. Pennington, N.J. Princeton Book Company, Publishers.
RELATED TEXTS: MUSIC
CAGE, J., 1966. Silence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
COOPER, G.W., MEYER, L.B., 1963 The Rhythmic Structure of Music
Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press
LENDVAI, E., 1993. Symmetries of Music. Kecskemet: Kodaly Institute
PRATT, G., 1996. The Dynamics of Harmony, Principles and Practice.
New York: OUP
SCARLATTI, D., 60 Sonatas in 2 Volumes. Ed. Kirkpatrick. New York:
G. Schirmer inc.
SCHOENBERG. A., 1967. Fundamentals of Musical Composition. London:
Faber and Faber
SMALL, C., 1998. Musicking. Hanover and London. Wesleyan University
Press/University Press of New England
ZUCKERKANDL, V., 1973 Man the Musician Princeton, NJ. Princeton
university Press.
PITCH TRAINING
EDLUND, L., Modus Vetus,Stockholm: Wilhelm Hansen
EDLUND, l., 1963. Modus Novus. Stockholm: Wilhelm Hansen
VOICE
REID, C., 1975 Voice: Psyche and Soma.new York. Joseph Patelson
Music House
McCALLION, M., 1998 reprint The Voice Book. London. Faber and
Faber.
RISTAD, E., 1982 A Soprano On Her Head. Moab, Utah. Real People
Press
RODENBURG, P., 1992. The Right to Speak. London: Methuen
VISUAL ARTS
KANDINSKY, W., 1981. Sounds. USA.: Yale University
FILMS
The Liberation of the Body: on the Traces of Jaques Dalcroze and
His Pupils. 2001. Film. Germany: Balance Film GmbH
Ancient Theatre and Its Legacy, Revolution and Rebirth. Modern
Theatrical Reform and it’s Debt to Antiquity.1992. Video. University of
Warwick
Orpheus and Eurydice 1992. Video. University of Warwick
Rosalia Chladek 1996. Film. Vienna: Televisfilm
"Playing the Concertina", Holland, 2005, Pilgrimm Pictures. DVD. www.pilgrimm.com
Paper and practical workshop: "Anacrusis, Being and Action"
FILMS ABOUT DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS
Dalcroze Resource Discs 1 & 2. Meerkatfilms. 2008, UK
Invaluable teaching resource. Two full length demonstration rhythmics lessons plus pedagogical discussions and additional exercises.*
Dalcroze International Congress, Archive Film – Geneva 2007. Meerkatfilms. 2007, UK. English/French.
Extracts from the FIER Congress held in Geneva 2007. Includes lessons, performances and interviews with teachers from all over the world.*
The Movement of Music. Meerkatfilms, 2005, UK
Film of the end of year performance given by the graduating students of the PGCE with Specialist Strings course at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. Items are from the final exams: Plastique, Bruitages, Phrasing, Theme and Variations etc.*
The Liberation of the Body: Following in the Tracks of E. Jaques-Dalcroze and his students. Goeller, N. 2001. Dresden, Balance Film GmbH. In German, English and French subtitles. DVD/video
A film about Hellerau and those involved in the unique work that happened there on the eve of the First World War. Includes archive footage and extracts of lessons given by Karin Greenhead to the students of the Paluccaschule and the Musikhochschule, Dresden.*
La Rythmique et l’age d’or, (Eurhythmics and the Golden Age) ASPRYJAD, Geneva, Switzerland. French/English.
Short but fascinating film about the work done by Prof. Reto Kressig (geriatrician) and Ruth Gianadda (Dalcroze teacher) with seniors and some of the astounding results they achieved.*
Dalcroze Eurhythmics International Conference, Tokyo, Japan. August 11 – 14 2004: 2004, Tokyo, Jaques - Dalcroze Society of Japan. Language, various. DVD/Video
Extracts of the conference.
The Essence of Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Twenty Rhythmicians Worldwide Speak. Vols 1 and 2: 2005, Tokyo, Jaques-Dalcroze Society of Japan. DVD
Twenty Dalcroze teachers were asked to respond to a list of questions. They could choose which ones interested them the most. A fascinating insight into diversity and commonalities within the Dalcroze world.
Playing the Concertina. Out, B. G. W., 2005Netherlands, Pilgrimmpictures.
Pauline de Snoo decided to learn the concertina, studying music with various teachers including DAlcroze Eurhythmics with Karin Greenhead. The story of her journey into music. Pauline achieved a BMus and a Masters. She now teaches music including some Dalcroze work in Holland.
* obtainable from the Dalcroze Society UK
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