DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS (4 - 7 years)
 These classes offer an integrated approach to understanding music. Through movement, singing, and improvisation, children experience music concepts and begin to develop music literacy. As children walk, run, and gallop, they experience beat, meter, and rhythm. As the year proceeds, students describe their rhythmic movement, identify note values, and begin to read and notate simple rhythms. When singing, they use their hands and arms to show the shape of a melody or phrase. Just as the walking and running movements help students feel and internalize rhythm, these arm movements help them feel and internalize the relationship of pitches while tuning the voice and ear to each other. Percussion instruments and props further enrich the class experience. The curriculum is shaped to the developmental needs and skills of the ages outlined below. In addition to a head Dalcroze teacher who improvises at the piano, there is also an assistant teacher.
*Teachers participating in Diller-Quaile's Graduate Level Dalcroze Courses/Certification Program observe this class.
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