Posts Tagged ‘Vol. 6.2’

For twenty years I have been teaching the ear training class, also called musical language or solfège, at the Escuela Superior de Música of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura in Mexico City. When I first began to teach these classes, I did so in the same traditional way in which I had…

Making Dalcroze eurhythmics visible in Guatemala is a task that invites researchers to perform deep analysis. It was not possible to confirm the presence of a music teacher in Guatemala who held official accreditation endorsed by the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva. However, the impact of this music pedagogy in the development of local musical education…

“My Dalcroze eurhythmics teaching experience in my home country, Brazil, and other Latin American countries“By Elda Nelly Treviño (México) Iramar Eustachio Rodrigues (1944–), one of the most renowned and loved Latin American specialists in Dalcroze eurhythmics, was born in Brazil, became a nationalized Swiss citizen, and retired from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva after many…

Introduction Throughout my musical career, solfège (music reading and theory) has always been rather bittersweet—challenging yet fascinating. As I progressed from beginning solfège in grade school to counterpoint in college, I became frustrated with the fact that these classes were abstract, repetitive, and, ironically, not very musical. This propelled me to search for a more…

Mexico, my native country, is in the northern hemisphere, yet shares the same language with Chile, far away in the southern hemisphere. Although both countries are part of Latin America, they are so far apart that when one is in the middle of winter, the other enjoys a hot summer. A focus on traditional Chilean…

The second volume of the special edition of Dalcroze Connections dedicated to the practice of Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Latinamerica offers the DSA community a diversity of applications of the principles of Jaques-Dalcroze in different contexts.  This issue makes me feel very proud because among the authors of its articles, we find former graduates of the…