Course Description
Summary
Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a music class where we practice sensing the body through sound. What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? How does music help you express yourself? Can music help you get to know someone else?
The feeling body is the single constant throughout all of our experiences, but can be easily forgotten amidst the notes and rhythms of music learning. Swiss pianist and composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) wanted to change that. Hoping to make music learning less abstract, he created Eurhythmics, not just to instill a connection between sound and gesture, but to return his music students to the body as the seat of musical experience.
This Fall, we鈥檒l ask how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)鈥搕hat we come to know the world subjectively through the living body-subject鈥揷an help us give language to music鈥檚 vital presence in our lives. In Dalcroze, as Dr. Marja-Leena Juntunen explains, 鈥渢he main goals are to encourage musical expression and creativity, to lead students to trust their own ideas and creations, and to help them discover their body as an expressive musical instrument.鈥 Join us!
