The Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom

Introduction I. Purpose Why the Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom? Healing the Mind-Body Split in College Music Training Rhythms from the Body What is the Kinesthetic Sense or "Sixth Sense?" Traditional vs. Embodied Approach Musical Affect and Expressive Performance II. Methodology Experience before Analysis Spiral of Learning Sensation before Conceptualization Internalization and Automatisms Improvisation: Cultivating One's "Voice" Physiological Evidence Reflective Stillness: Movement is Not an End in Itself III. Getting Started (Notes to the Instructor) Pedagogical Tips Chapter 1: Basics I. Preliminary Considerations Physical Form (to the instructor) Movement Tenets (to the instructor and students) Overcoming Inhibitions (to the instructor) II. Five Fundamental Exercises (to the instructor and students) Quick Reaction Inhibition and Excitation Interference Imitation and Canon Disassociation Chapter 2: Warm ups Chapter 3: Rhythm I: Basic Rhythmic Concepts and Terminology (to the instructor and students) Time-Point vs. Gestural-Rhythm Beat Meter Rhythmic Nuance Definitions of Accents and Poetic Feet Expressing Gestural Rhythms Pedagogical Tips for Teaching Rhythm Exercises (to the instructor) II: Rhythmic Subjects 1. Beat, Pulse, & Tempo 2. Meter-Simple and Compound 3. Augmentation-Rhythmic Duration and Expansion 4. Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters 5. Rests & Pauses-The Expression of Silence 6. Dotted Rhythm 7. Syncopation 8. Gestural Rhythmic Patterns 9. Cross Rhythms and Polyrhythms 10. Changing Meters 11. Uneven Meters 12. Additive Rhythms 13. Polymeters and Cross Rhythms Chapter 4: Pitch, Scale, and Melody 1. The Scale-to and from tonic 2. Tonal Centering, Retention, and Recall 3. Relative Pitch & Scale Degree Function 4. Scalar Fragments-The Scale's Inner workings 5. Intervals-A Contextualized Approach 6. C-to-C Scales-A Comparative Study of Scales 7. Modulation-Strategies for Singing, Hearing, and Improvising 8. Sight Singing and Inner Hearing Strategies Chapter 5: Harmony 1. Chords-Harmonic Building Blocks from the Scale 2. Inversions-Triads and Seventh Chords 3. Embodying Harmonic Function 4. Modulation 5. Embodying/Integrating Harmonic Progressions Chapter 6 1. Phrase 2. Forms 3. Plastique Animèe Additional Plastique Animée