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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Background | |
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One voice teacher's education | |
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The Eclectic Voice Teacher | |
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Why the Dalcroze Method? | |
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Vocal mythology | |
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Emile Jacques-Dalcroze | |
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Biography | |
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Influences | |
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First Principles | |
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The Dalcroze Methodology | |
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The Dalcroze equation | |
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Space, Energy, and Plasticity | |
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Time | |
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Weight | |
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Balance | |
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Plasticity | |
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The normative measure and its effect | |
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Arrhythm | |
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Errhythm | |
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Eurhythm | |
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Effect of the Normative Measure | |
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Understanding music through kinesthetics | |
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Affect and Movement | |
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The Dance of Affect | |
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Playing Detective | |
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Skills for Expressive Reading | |
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Improvisation | |
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Proaction and Reaction | |
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Improvisation | |
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Three Exercises in Plasticity | |
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Mirror Exercises | |
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Exercises that Develop Ability to Improvise Text or Music | |
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Exercises in Gibberish | |
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Musical Gibberish | |
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Rhythmic solfege | |
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Fixed do System | |
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Comparison of German and French Theories | |
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Summary | |
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The behaviors for learning | |
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Paying Attention | |
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Turning Attention to Concentration | |
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Remembering | |
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Reproducing the Performance | |
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Changing | |
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Automating | |
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Putting the Dalcroze Methodology to Work | |
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Musical rules | |
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Introduction | |
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Aesthetic Choices | |
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Two Assumptions | |
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What Makes a Performance Expressive? | |
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General Rules of Phrasing | |
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Rules of Accentuation | |
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Rules of Nuance | |
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Applying eurhythmics to technique | |
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Performer Controls | |
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Voice Classification | |
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Breathing | |
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Articulation | |
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Coordinating Ear and Voice | |
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Coordinating Ear and Body | |
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Affect and its Effect on Technique | |
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Three Methods of Processing Information | |
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Three Forms of Kinesthesia | |
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Putting it all together: creative practicing | |
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Important Principles | |
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The Exercises | |
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Singing Musically in the Early Learning Stages | |
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Three sample lessons | |
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First Lesson With a New Student | |
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Lesson With a Second-Year Student | |
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Lesson With a Fourth-Year Student | |
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Summary | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions and answers | |
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Suggestions for learning a score musically | |
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Exercises Distilled From Chapter 11 | |
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Bonus Exercise for Non-Piano Players | |
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List of Attitudes | |
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Greenwell registration chart | |
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Introduction | |
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Elements of Registration | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |