Conference Welcome and Keynote Address

With Mary Dobrea-Grindahl, Diplôme Supérieur

Recorded January 13, 2023

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze said, “We cannot teach what we wish; we cannot teach what we know; we can only teach who we are.”

Together, let’s explore the idea of who we are, and, perhaps more importantly, who we—the present and future members of the Dalcroze Society of America—want to be. Let’s be together, work together, and play together!

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Games and Songs in Five

With Anthony Molinaro (2024)

Duration: 1:12:00

Members Only Resource

Conventional wisdom holds that meters of five are somehow inherently more difficult than meters of two, three, four, or six. In this session, participants will experience a series of games and songs that connect young children to uneven meters and encourage them to groove naturally with these patterns!

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Dalcroze 104: Dalcroze Solfège and Harmony

With Eiko Ishizuka (2024)

Duration: 1:00:29

Members Only Resource

Using embodied approaches to ear training, we’ll learn “Che Gusto” by Antonio Caldara, which employs the harmonic progression of descending 5ths. We remember beloved Dalcroze teacher Lisa Parker in this class, who adored this canon.

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