Kimberly Stromberg

June 24, 2014

MUSE 582
Dr. Ying-Shu Liu
Dalcroze Bibliography and Lesson Plan
Dalcroze methodology has many activities that are used to teach concepts of rhythm and
meter, rests, augmentation, diminution, intervals, sight singing, part singing, tonal memory, and
improvisation. Many of these activities include movement to help students discover music
through their bodies. Activities that move to the music teach articulation, phrasing, dynamics,
and forward thinking before such vocabulary is used. Dalcroze combines these activities with
real melodies and songs to give students context that can be applied to their every day life.

Subject: subdivision
Quarter eighth notes

Quarter half notes

Eighth notes quarter notes Half notes- quarter notes

Grade level: 9-12
Objective: Be able to apply the concept of subdivision to a song, sight-singing, and movement
exercise
Activities
Step 1: Sing a major scale repeating after me. Can you find do?

This time, we will sing slow, walking, or running and switch after 2 measures of each.
Continue through the descending scale.
Example: do re - mi fa sol la tidotila sol fa mi re doThis time start with the running tempo, then switch to walking, then slow, and back.
example: doremifa sol la ti do ti- la sol fa mi re do
Start on walking tempo and switch when I say run slow or walk.
walk the beat, still singing, still switching. Just keep going.
Student is the commander

Step 2: Singing patterns and intervals

Kimberly Stromberg
June 24, 2014
MUSE 582
Dr. Ying-Shu Liu
Teacher sings scale in trichords, and students only sing first and last pitch
o Tetrachords
o Pentachords
o Switch between all three
o Switch between all three and tempos
o Student as commander
Step 3: Goose song
Listen to me sing the song
Repeat after me (I sing two phrases at a time)
Sing together
Now twice as slow
Back to walking tempo
Now twice as fast
Three groups canon.
o We sing it three times. First slow speed, then walking, then running
o Quick reaction (using the note cards)
o Walk, sing, quick reaction