New musicality video:
Have you ever heard of Dalcroze? It’s an approach to music learning that’s often discussed alongside Kodály or Orff, but until this interview we must confess that it’s one we didn’t know very much about. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/more-ways-of-knowing-music-with-jeremy-dittus/
We spoke with Dr. Jeremy Dittus, the founder and director of the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in Denver, one of the most prominent Dalcroze schools in the US, and asked him about his own experiences learning this approach and how (and why) he teaches it now.
Jeremy has been a lecturer in piano, theory, and solfège at the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Cleveland, he has taught undergraduate solfège, piano, and composition courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as eurhythmics and solfège at L’Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. At the Dalcroze School of the Rockies, he now leads a team providing Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Rhythmic-Solfège courses to ages 4 through 14, as well as popular adult classes.
In this conversation we talk about:
– How “reading between the lines” of sheet music, Schenkerian analysis, and Dalcroze training all helped transform Jeremy into the musician and educator he is today
– What exactly “Dalcroze” is and how each of its five components can benefit a musician
– How and why Dalcroze uses both the fixed and movable do systems of solfege
– How Dalcroze can enrich a musician who’s learning in the traditional way, and why walking past a Dalcroze classroom typically means seeing a room full of adults smiling, moving and having fun
We found this conversation really illuminating and it inspired us to learn more about Dalcroze training. We hope you find it just as enlightening!
Listen to the episode: https://www.musical-u.com/learn/more-ways-of-knowing-music-with-jeremy-dittus/
Links and Resources
The Dalcroze School of the Rockies: http://dalcrozeschooloftherockies.com/
Videos of Plastique Animée: https://www.dalcrozeschooloftherockies.com/plastique-animee/
Video of Eurythmics class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vfU373TgU
Website: Dalcroze USA: https://dalcrozeusa.org/
Book: “The Perfect wrong note” by William Westney: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Wrong-Note-Learning-Musical/dp/1574671456/
Let us know what you think! Email: hello@musicalitypodcast.com
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