Dalcroze 104: Dalcroze Solfège and Harmony

2023 Conference Keynote Speaker Mary Dobrea-Grindahl addresses the question "So who are we?"

Experience a movement class from the 2010 National Conference.

In this workshop, Jack Stevenson guides students through quick reactions, dissociations, and canons to explore the sensation of duplets.

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!

In this 75-minute collaboration, we will explore the idea of a personal inner tempo and then consider the challenge of “being music” that is at tempos more-than and less-than our authentic selves. How am I to feel the reality of another? With examples from Bach, La Bottine Souriante, and Satie, we will consider the difference between playing the notes of and being the music of another.

Oh, the places you will go! What can 7+ years of Dalcroze training can accomplish in young people? Advanced students from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies demonstrate a variety of eurhythmics and solfège activities.