Lesson Plan
Feeling “Three”
Triple Meter and Complementary Rhythm
Created November 20, 2025 | Added December 21, 2025
This multi-lesson sequence invites students to feel triple meter through movement and song, building toward recognizing rhythms, creating patterns, and discovering complementary rhythms.
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Cynthia Lilley
Cynthia Lilley earned a Dalcroze certificate and license at the Longy School. She taught at the Diller-Quaile School of Music and at the Special Music School, a public school in Manhattan for musically gifted children. She continues to teach at the Dalcroze School at the Lucy Moses School. Cynthia has been a presenter at many Dalcroze workshops and national conferences, and she has taught summer courses in the Dalcroze approach for music teachers at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA; Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX; the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MO; the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY; and Hunter College in New York, NY. She is a past president of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America where she now serves on the Professional Development Committee.
Feeling “Three”
Triple Meter and Complementary Rhythm
Cynthia Lilley, Author
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Cynthia Lilley
Cynthia Lilley earned a Dalcroze certificate and license at the Longy School. She taught at the Diller-Quaile School of Music and at the Special Music School, a public school in Manhattan for musically gifted children. She continues to teach at the Dalcroze School at the Lucy Moses School. Cynthia has been a presenter at ma…
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