Full Description
Music Fundamentals for Dance provides students with a fundamental understanding of music and how it applies to dance performance, composition, and teaching. This valuable reference helps professional choreographers, dance educators, and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance.
Fundamentals of Music for Dance helps dancers understand of the elements of music—form and structure, musical time, melody, texture, and score reading—and how they relate to dance performance and choreography. They will learn music vocabulary for easier communication with other dancers, musicians, and conductors. Overviews of musical forms, styles, and genres are complemented by an examination of their relation to dance and choreography.
Each chapter ends with exercises, activities, and projects that offer students a range of active learning experiences to connect music fundamentals to their dance training. An accompanying web resource contains these features:
• Extended learning activities and support materials, including practice opportunities combining music skills with dance or choreography, chapter summaries, a glossary, websites, and handouts to help students practice music skills
• Music clips on the website offer ready-made examples, which students can use in applying concepts from the book
Written by an experienced dance educator, dancer, and choreographer, Music Fundamentals for Dance is the only current text that explains essential concepts of music and examines these concepts in relation to dance performance, composition, and teaching. By providing readers with a foundation of music knowledge, Music Fundamentals for Dance assists both future and current professionals in understanding the art form that will enhance their contributions as performers, choreographers, and educators.
Contents
Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Music and Notation
Staffs
Note and Rests
Tonality
Dynamics
Terms and Symbols of Expression
Articulation
Summary
Chapter 2. Elements of Musical Time
Defining the Elements of Musical Time
Note Value
Subdividing
Tempo
Rhythm
Syncopation
Summary
Chapter 3. Elements of Melody
Two Types of Melody
Melodic Characteristics
Melodic Structure
Cadences of Melodic Phrases
Climaxes of Melodic Phrases
Themes
Summary
Chapter 4. Texture
Three Types of Musical Texture
Counterpoint and Contrapuntal Devices
Summary
Chapter 5. Reading Music Scores
Definition of Music Score
Value of Reading Scores
Solo Instrument or Vocal Score
Piano Scores
Scores for Two or More Instruments or Voices
Other Types of Scores
Summary
Chapter 6. Form and Structure
Understanding Musical Form
Repetition and Contrast
Binary Forms
Ternary Forms
Movements
Variation Forms
Genres
Summary
