Latinamerican music: a rich source for Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Music Classrooms A six-session short course with Elda Nelly Treviño (Mexico)
Latinamerican folk songs with various musical subjects, triplets, meter change from 3/4 to 6/8, meters with unequal beats (5/8), tonality (major, minor, modal, pentatonic), syncopation, dance rhythms (waltz, minuet, danzón, merengue, mambo), Cuban clave
Latinamerican music: a rich source for Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Music Classrooms A six-session short course with Elda Nelly Treviño (Mexico)
Are you curious about finding novel repertoire to enhance your teaching practice? This short course will take you through a journey of discovery of Latinamerican traditional music rich in rhythmic patterns and beautiful melodies. We will work through Dalcroze eurhythmics exercises which can fit students of all ages and musical backgrounds. We will explore traditional music from different Latinamerican countries and short piano pieces written for didactical purposes: music in simple and compound meters both regular and irregular, pentatonic, tonal, modal melodies, and dance music.
Through a journey of discovery, we will emphasize musical aspects such as rhythmic patterns, melodic contours, phrasing, harmony, and character, which offer opportunities to work on the four areas of study of the Dalcroze pedagogy: eurhythmics, solfège, improvisation, and plastique animé. Furthermore, we will explore various excerpts of concert music based on Latinamerican dance rhythms suitable for plastique animé. A lead sheet (music notation) with the lyrics in English and Spanish will be provided along with the links for recorded versions of the music available in public platforms.
This course does not require prior background or experience with Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
More details including an detailed outline of content we will be covering in each of the six-session, can be found here: Short Course Elda Nelly Treviño Description
This course was originally given May 22 - June 9, 2023.
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