Download or read book Rhythm, Music and Education (Classic Reprint) written by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rhythm, Music and Education Twenty-five years ago I made my debut in pedagogy, as Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire of Geneva. After the first few lessons, I noticed that the ears of my pupils were not able to appreciate the chords which they had to write, and I concluded that the flaw in the conventional method of training is that pupils are not given experience of chords at the beginning of their studies - when brain and body are developing along parallel lines, the one constantly communicating its impressions and sensations to the other - but that this experience is withheld until the time arrives to express the results in writing. Accordingly I decided to precede my lessons in written harmony by special exercises of a physiological nature aimed at developing the hearing faculties, and I was not long in discovering that, while with older students acoustic sensations were hindered by futile intellectual preconceptions, children appreciated them quite spontaneously, proceeding in due course quite naturally to their analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."