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Educational Philosophy

Dalcroze believed the first instrument that must be trained in music is the body. He conducted a series of experiments with his students. Also, he developed techniques that combined: hearing and physics answer, also, physics response singing and reading music. He used the results to help in the process for well develop the inner ear which is the ability to summon sense impressions and musical thinking, reading and writing music without an instrument help. During this process of resarch, Dalcroze published books on music theory in the year of 1894.

By continuing to build his metodology he searched her students and has noticed that students who could not play on time in the music world, were able to walk on time in the real world. The walking was completely spontaneous. Later, he observed that some of his best students marked the beat with the feet, or shook their heads and trunks in response to music. All of that was natural and common to all ages and cultures. Then he noticed that the students changed their movements when following a crescendo and sometimes physically demonstrated the accents of the music. They also have relaxed the muscles when a sentence ended. They seemed to hear music, feeling its effects. So, he concluded students were the instruments, not the piano, but themselves.

The reasons for training rhythm:

Dalcroze have realized that the aspects of music that are more conected to the senses were rhythm and movement. Of the three elements of music: pitch, rhythm and dynamic energy he realized that the last two were entirely dependent on the movement. He also found their best models in the muscular system. For him all degrees of time - tempos - can be experienced and understood and expressed through the body. He felt that the enthusiasm of musical feelings depended on the sharpness of physical sensations. He was convinced that the combination of intense listening to the responses of the body would generate and release a powerful musical force.