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BASIC
LEVEL ONE CERTIFICATION
June 15 - June 27, 2020
PROGRAM A
Within a consecutive two-week period of intensive training, candidates learn fundamental skills in Eurhythmics, Solfège, Piano Improvisation, and Plastique Animée. Candidates are asked to complete the Level One pedagogy practicum.
We require all candidates to practice solfège and improvisation daily under the supervision of a faculty member and to complete the daily assignments in all branches of study. Personal examinations in Eurhythmics, Solfège, Plastique and Piano Improvisation are also required.
Students who do not pass any part of the exams or fulfill other requirements are given two additional opportunities to complete Level One certification.
Formal theme papers and written lesson plans are not required to complete the Level I Certification but may be submitted as supporting material.
We require all candidates to practice solfège and improvisation daily under the supervision of a faculty member and to complete the daily assignments in all branches of study. Personal examinations in Eurhythmics, Solfège, Plastique and Piano Improvisation are also required.
Students who do not pass any part of the exams or fulfill other requirements are given two additional opportunities to complete Level One certification.
Formal theme papers and written lesson plans are not required to complete the Level I Certification but may be submitted as supporting material.
CURRICULUM
Level One
Course Descriptions and Outcomes
Course Descriptions and Outcomes
EURHYTHMICS
Description
The development of physical techniques that will allow participants to gain specific physical sensations and link those sensations to particular music parameters. The Introduction to the use of space as it relates to time and energy. Music subjects include simple and compound meter, arm beat and arm swing patterns, the Pure Rhythm Modes and several composite rhythm modes, complementary rhythm, canon, the crusic phrase, and tuplets. Also explored is movement improvisation with tonal music and the introduction of twice as fast and slow.
Outcome
Throughout the examination, the candidate will perform musically and accurately without pauses, uncertainty, or hesitations. The candidate will demonstrate the difference between compound and simple meter (metric integrity), and use the arm beats with balanced gestures, showing the position of each beat and the duration from one ictus to the next (time-space-energy). In each exercise, the body will remain poised and balanced so that the movement can demonstrate dynamic and agogic nuance, and musical accuracy.
Description
The development of physical techniques that will allow participants to gain specific physical sensations and link those sensations to particular music parameters. The Introduction to the use of space as it relates to time and energy. Music subjects include simple and compound meter, arm beat and arm swing patterns, the Pure Rhythm Modes and several composite rhythm modes, complementary rhythm, canon, the crusic phrase, and tuplets. Also explored is movement improvisation with tonal music and the introduction of twice as fast and slow.
Outcome
Throughout the examination, the candidate will perform musically and accurately without pauses, uncertainty, or hesitations. The candidate will demonstrate the difference between compound and simple meter (metric integrity), and use the arm beats with balanced gestures, showing the position of each beat and the duration from one ictus to the next (time-space-energy). In each exercise, the body will remain poised and balanced so that the movement can demonstrate dynamic and agogic nuance, and musical accuracy.
SOLFÈGE
Description
The development of tonality, function, pitch, and interval through specific exercises and songs, duets, and canons. The introduction to the doh-to-doh scales, dyads, trichords, and triads in Doh, Sol, Fa, Ré, and Si flat major. Also covered is the chromatic scale doh-to-doh and tonic-to-tonic, changing clef using the seven Dalcroze clefs, transposition by way of the clef, and tonicization to the dominant. Candidates will work with a partner when performing all exercises and literature.
Outcome
Description
The development of tonality, function, pitch, and interval through specific exercises and songs, duets, and canons. The introduction to the doh-to-doh scales, dyads, trichords, and triads in Doh, Sol, Fa, Ré, and Si flat major. Also covered is the chromatic scale doh-to-doh and tonic-to-tonic, changing clef using the seven Dalcroze clefs, transposition by way of the clef, and tonicization to the dominant. Candidates will work with a partner when performing all exercises and literature.
Outcome
Throughout the exam, the candidate will perform musically and accurately without pauses, uncertainty, or hesitations. While conducting using arm beat patterns, the candidate will clearly demonstrate the difference between compound meter and simple meter (metric integrity). The candidate will also conduct with balanced gestures, and show the position of each beat and the duration from one ictus to the next (time-space-energy). In each exercise, the body will remain poised and balanced so that the voice can demonstrate dynamic and agogic nuance, and musical accuracy.
IMPROVISATION
Description
The development of keyboard musicianship skills for improvising music for walking, trotting, skipping, galloping, and marching, in simple and compound meter in the keys of Doh, Sol, Fa, Ré, and S flat major. Also covered is crusic phrase structure in an A B form, rhythm realization with tonicization of the dominant, melodic harmonization in two voices that tonicizes the dominant, figured bass realization in two voices using the root, and first inversion triads.
Outcome
Description
The development of keyboard musicianship skills for improvising music for walking, trotting, skipping, galloping, and marching, in simple and compound meter in the keys of Doh, Sol, Fa, Ré, and S flat major. Also covered is crusic phrase structure in an A B form, rhythm realization with tonicization of the dominant, melodic harmonization in two voices that tonicizes the dominant, figured bass realization in two voices using the root, and first inversion triads.
Outcome
Throughout the exams, the candidate will perform musically and accurately at the piano without pauses, uncertainty, or hesitations. While performing, the candidate will demonstrate metric integrity, rhythmic accuracy, coherent phrase structure, clear articulation, correct use of the damper pedal, and cogent dynamic nuance.
PEDAGOGY PRACTICUM
Description
The introduction to Jaques-Dalcroze pedagogy covering quick reaction, disassociation, application of Time, Space and Energy, and the use of layering within the lesson. The course also includes teaching rote songs using function and pitch placement.
Outcome
The level I practicum is purely experiential where comments are provided without a pass or fail judgment. It requires students to teach at least two classes throughout the semester no longer than fifteen-minutes and include at least one quick reaction exercise, one dissociation exercise and the teaching of one rote song using pitch placement.
PLASTIQUE ANIMÈE
Description
Plastique Animée, the “new” art form where any given piece of music literature is first studied and analyzed theoretically and then interpreted artistically using choreographed movement. Here, the “movement musicians” or "plasticians" work to coordinate with the "sound musicians" to create a seamless musical experience of the marriage between the music’s structure and the movement’s form.
Outcome
To fulfill the requirement the student will participate in at least one plastique animée performance and perform that piece at the end of the course as directed by a faculty member. The candidate will demonstrate marked improvement in coordination, balance, poise, and physical artistry. Also, the candidate will depict the relationship between the music played and the movement performed while using live music.