Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE

Sorsogon City Campus
EDUCATION, ACCOUNTANCY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEPARTMENT
Sorsogon City
2nd Semester, SY: 2020-2021

MODULE NO. 1
Strategies in Music Teaching
DALCROZE EURYTHMIC METHOD

Prepared by:
MARY ROSE H. POBOCAN
LARRAINE ANN P. PURA

Submitted to:

LIZEL D. LERIOS
Instructor I
 I. Introduction
Dalcroze Education is a playful, experiential approach to teaching and learning music. It is a
process for awakening, developing, and refining innate musicality through rhythmic movement
(often called eurhythmics), ear-training, and improvisation. This module will provide interactive
games and exercises that help students learn to trust their ideas and develop their own intuitions.

II. Learning Outcomes

After studying this part of the module, you should be able to:

• Define Dalcroze eurythmic movement

• Describe the characteristics of Dalcroze eurythmic movement
• Perform music applying Dalcroze eurythmic movement

III. Pre-test
Let's see how much you already know about the topic which we are going to discuss in this
module.

A. Multiple Choice: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. A Swiss teacher composer who introduced the Dalcroze Eurhythmics Approach.

a. Zoltan Kodaly

b. Carl Orff

c. Justine Ward

d. Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

2. The following are the three fundamental concepts of Dalcroze method except one.

a. Eurhythmics

b. Rhythm Solmozation

c. Solfege

d. Improvisation

3. A method or known as eurythmic approach in teaching that uses dance, movement, mind,
and body to teach music.

a. Kodaly Method

b. Suzuki Method

c. Dalcroze Eurythmic Method

d. Orff-Schulwerk Method

4. A fundamental concepts which engage the body in rhythmic movement and active listening.

a. Eurhythmics

b. Improvisation

c. Solfege

5. Types of basic eurythmic exercises which requires to respond to verbal signals or cues.

a. Canon

b. Quick reaction

c. Follow

d. Interrupted canon
B. Match column A with column B.

A B

1. Ordinary walking •

2. Step and bow or pause •

3. Step and 2 bows or pauses •

4. 2 light running steps •

5. Bow •

IV. Discussion

What is Dalcroze method?

➢ The use of dance, movement, mind, and body to teach music.

➢ A playful, experiential approach to teaching and learning music. It is a process for
awakening, developing, and refining innate musicality through rhythmic movement (often
called eurhythmics), ear-training, and improvisation.
➢ Process of awakening, developing, and refining innate musicality through rhythmic
movement (eurhythmics) ear training and improvisions.

It was developed in the early 20th century by Swiss musician and educator Émile Jaques-
Dalcroze. The Dalcroze method, also known as Dalcroze Eurhythmics, incorporates the basic
elements of music—rhythm, melody, harmony—with body movement, to provide a multi-
dimensional approach to music learning.

Dalcroze method is divided into (3) fundamental concepts- the use of:

Eurhythmics (Greek for "good rhythm") - engages the body in rhythmic movement and
active listening.
Solfège (fixed-do) - develops internal melody and harmony, along with a holistic response
to musical notation.
Improvisation- brings out the creative spirit with the voice, an instrument, or the body.
Types of movement

Each movement involves time, space, and force, and all three should be taken into account
when moving, paying close attention to the musical attributes of the movement.

❖ Time: Tempo (rate of speed) and duration (fast, moderate, slow)

❖ Space: Direction, distance covered, level, dimension (large, small), path (straight,
twisted), and focus
❖ Force: Energy or power expended, quality of the movement, and any adjectives to
describe the movement (e.g., heavy, light, sharp, energetic, gentle)
Movement that stays stationary is called non-locomotor, while movement that moves through
space is locomotor.

Non-locomotor (movement in place):

Stretch, curl, clap, snap, patch, tap, stomp, twist, turn, conduct, sway, jump, bend,
speak, stretch, swing, reach

Locomotor (movement through space):

Walk, slide, skip, run, leap, gallop, hop, jump, slither, creep, roll, jog
Four types of basic eurhythmic exercises:

✓ Follow- a basic music-movement response exercise. Students physically respond to the

sounds they hear.

Examples: Students walk to the beat of music (piano, drum, etc.) and respond to changes
of tempo (speeding up or slowing down), rhythms (walking on quarter notes, running on
eighth notes, skipping on dotted rhythms), etc.

✓ Quick reaction- A quick reaction exercise requires students to respond to verbal signals
or cues.

Examples: Students move while the music is playing and freeze when the music stops or the teacher yells
out a command. Students also can change their movements on a given signal, such as switching from a
loco-motor to a non-loco-motor when they hear a drum beat or chime or when the music stops.

✓ Interrupted canon- similar to an “echo” where students imitate or echo a beat, pattern,
etc. The interrupted canon is a preparatory exercise for the canon.

Examples: Students hear a rhythm and then echo it back on their body (lap, clap,
etc.).

✓ Canon- requires students to echo back a pattern, but one measure later. While they are
performing their pattern, they are simultaneously listening and memorizing the new
pattern.
Examples: The teacher claps patterns. Students respond one measure later while
continually absorbing the pattern currently being performed.

Some rhythmic movements

a. quarter note ( ) - ordinary walking

b. half note ( ) -step and bow or pause

c. dotted half note ( ) - step and 2 bows or pauses

d. 2 eight notes ( ) - 2 light running steps

e. dotted quarter note ( ) – bow

Examples of music for Dalcroze movement exploration:

V. Evaluation

▪ Perform the Lubi-Lubi song using the Dalcroze method.

VI. References

Butera, Kathy. (2012). The Dalcroze Teaching Method. San Francisco Classical Voice.
Link@napavalleymusicassociates.org
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-music-and-the-child/chapter/chapter-4-
approaches-to-music-education-2/
https://dalcrozeusa.org/about-dalcroze/what-is-
dalcroze/#:~:text=Dalcroze%20Education%20is%20a%20playful,ear%2Dtraining%2C%
20and%20improvisation.