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Paulino Paredes (1913-1957) was a prolific and multifaceted composer born in Michoacán (Central México). His compositions range from symphonic works (ballets, solo concerti, and symphonic poems), musical theatre, sacred works for choir and organ, and solo organ, chamber music (lieder, string quartets), and solo piano music. Among his solo piano ...

Note: this is part 2 of a series. Find part 1 here. This article first appeared in The Orff Echo, Volume XVIII, No. 4, Summer 1986. ©1986 American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Mayfield Heights, OH. Used by permission. Scale singing [at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze] is a daily must. "So what?" one might ask. Here is ...

This is a lesson plan I might use in the beginning of the year in a community music school. Where I teach, some students will be brand new to music lessons and Dalcroze, some will be experienced at both, but most will be in between. I try to plan activities ...

Have you ever heard of the T2 Program? If not, this article will familiarize you with an outline of this important document which is shaping the future of Dalcroze teacher training in the United States. The T2 program, which symbolizes the two Ts in Teacher Training (and is sometimes pronounced ...

Translated by Robert M. Abramson Foreword Rhythmic solfège is not in competition with other systems of solfège. It is a complement to them, and an indispensable one. In fact, in the better treatises on the subject, classical or modern, the exercises are given with the sole intention of teaching the ...

Recently I attended a reunion of the k-8 school where I taught from its founding in 2005 until 2016. The Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School was founded by a group of primarily Asian American but also African American social justice activists and folk arts advocates. The vision of the school ...