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    The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
    The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
    The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
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    The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze

    By Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

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      The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

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      Title: The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze

      Author: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

      Contributor: M. E. Sadler

      Release Date: June 1, 2007 [EBook #21653]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EURHYTHMICS OF JAQUES-DALCROZE ***

      Produced by David Newman, V. L. Simpson and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.

      THE EURHYTHMICS OF JAQUES-DALCROZE

      Introduction by

      Professor M. E. Sadler, LL.D. (Columbia)

      Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds

      BOSTON

      SMALL MAYNARD AND COMPANY

      1915

      Printed in Great Britain

      Πας γαρ ὁ βιος του ανθρωπου ευρυθμιας τε και ευαρμοστιας δειται

      Rhythmische Gymnastik is the name by which the Dalcroze method is known in Germany, but whether or not the German words are adequate, their literal translation into English certainly gives too narrow an idea of the scope of the system to any one unacquainted with it. Rhythmical gymnastics, in the natural meaning of the word, is a part of the Dalcroze training, and a not unimportant part, but it is only one application of a much wider principle; and accordingly, where the term occurs in the following pages, it must be understood simply as denoting a particular mode of physical drill. But for the principle itself and the total method embodying it, another name is needed, and the term Eurhythmics has been here coined for the purpose. The originality of the Dalcroze method, the fact that it is a discovery, gives it a right to a name of its own: it is because it is in a sense also the rediscovery of an old secret that a name has been chosen of such plain reference and derivation. Plato, in the words quoted above, has said that the whole of a man's life stands in need of a right rhythm: and it is natural to see some kinship between this Platonic attitude and the claim of Dalcroze that his discovery is not a mere refinement of dancing, nor an improved method of music-teaching, but a principle that must have effect upon every part of life.

      John W. Harvey.

      CONTENTS

      Note: John W. Harvey 5

      The Educational Significance of Hellerau: Prof. M. E. Sadler 11

      Rhythm as a Factor in Education: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 15

      From Lectures and Addresses: Translated by P. & E. Ingham 26

      The Method: Growth and Practice: Percy B. Ingham 31

      Lessons at Hellerau: Ethel Ingham 48

      Life at Hellerau: Ethel Ingham 55

      The Value of Eurhythmics to Art: M. T. H. Sadler. 60

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Frontispiece

      The College: from the East Facing page15

      The College: Front 26

      The College: General View from the South-East 31

      Beating 4/4

      Movements for the Semibreve Between pages 36 and 37

      Beating 5/4 in Canon without Expression

      Beating 5/4 in Canon with Expression Between pages 44 and 45

      The Air Bath

      The College: Entrance Hall Between pages 48 and 49

      The College: Classrooms

      The College: Interiors Between pages 52 and 53

      The Hostel: Interiors Facing page 55

      The Hostel: General View page 57

      Dresden from Hellerau Facing page 59

      A Plastic Exercise 60

      A Plastic Exercise 64

      THE EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HELLERAU

      At Hellerau two things make an ineffaceable impression upon the mind—the exquisite beauty of movement, of gesture and of grouping seen in the exercises; and the nearness of a great force, fundamental to the arts and expressing itself in the rhythm to which they attain. Jaques-Dalcroze has re-opened a door which has long been closed. He has rediscovered one of the secrets of Greek education.

      A hundred years ago Wilhelm von Humboldt endeavoured to make Greek ideals the paramount influence in the higher schools of Germany. He and a group of friends had long felt indignant at the utilitarianism and shallowness of the work of the schools. In Greek literature, Greek philosophy and Greek art would be found a means of kindling new life in education and of giving it the power of building up strong and independent personalities. When there came to Humboldt the unexpected opportunity of reforming the secondary schools of Prussia, he so remodelled the course of study as to secure for Greek thought and letters a place which, if not central and determinative, would at least bring the élite of the younger generation in some measure under their influence. But his administrative orders failed to impart to the schools the spirit of ancient Greece. To Humboldt and his friends Greek studies had been an inspiration because, apart from their intellectual significance and literary form, those studies had been the channel of an artistic impulse and had been entered into as art. But this artistic power was not felt by the greater number of those who undertook, in obedience to the new regulations, the duty of teaching Greek in the schools. What was left in Greek studies after this

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