Unit 2 Empowering singing: The development of body awareness
Introductory
Topic 1 – Experiencing body awareness through expressive movement and creativity
6 Topics
Topic 1 – 1 Warm-up Snow angel
Topic 1-2 On emotions
Topic 1 -3 Presenting Rudolf Laban’s 8 Basic Efforts
Topic 1 – 4 Improvising with the Basic Efforts
Topic 1-5 Flock of Birds
Topic 1-6 Creating a story
Topic 2 – Enhancing body awareness through experiencing movement and weight
4 Topics
Topic 2 – 1 Warm-up Snow angel
Topic 2 – 2 Supination – Pronation
Topic 2 – 3a Flexibility of the column – weight and movement
Topic 2-3b
Topic 3 – Experiencing body awareness through Traditional Dance
2 Topics
Topic 3a
Topic 1-3 Bibliography
Topic 4 Connecting movement to singing: A Dalcroze approach (D.A.)
9 Topics
Topic 4 -1 Connecting movement to music – A Dalcroze approach
Topic 4-2 Density of voices – ear training exercise
Topic 4-3 Vocal improvisation with a movement in space
Topic 4-4 Recognise different melodic patterns
Topic 4-5 Working on a new Melody
Topic 4-6 Combining parts with movement:
Topic 4-7 Embodying Harmony through gesture
Topic 4-8 Raising the level of difficulty
Topic 4 – 9 Possibilities for further training
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Topic 4-7 Embodying Harmony through gesture
Unit 2 Empowering singing: The development of body awareness
Topic 4 Connecting movement to singing: A Dalcroze approach (D.A.)
Topic 4-7 Embodying Harmony through gesture
Sing only the harmony pure: only the first beat and sustaining the chords together.
Em B7 G A C D Em B7
Incorporating gesture
Associating a gesture or movement for every chord of the harmony and practicing while singing
Following the piano while it plays the same chords in a different order
Inner ear training exercise:
Singing the piece and with the teacher’s signal changing to inner singing
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