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Rhythmic Training for Dancers Rhythmic Training for Dancers
About the Product
If you want to improve your students’ ability to learn movement combinations, teach dance, and create choreography, then help them get in touch with the musicality in their movements with Rhythmic Training for Dancers.
Rhythmic Training for Dancers and its companion CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, help dancers develop a better understanding of musical time and phrasing, which directly correspond with their dance activities. These materials provide an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the perceptual barrier between dancers and musicians by explaining concepts from both perspectives. Students will- learn basic concepts of musical time as they apply to dance technique and choreography,
- become aware of how they intuitively use musical time in their dancing, and
- explore rhythmic theory from the musician’s perspective.
The book follows a step-by-step approach, introducing only a few concepts at a time so that students will comprehend the material. Special exercises are grouped within six categories of study designed to reveal the musicality inherent in movement and the kinetics of rhythm: aural skills, rhythm activities, vocal training, notation, dance technique class and pedagogy, and choreography.
The book also includes material that course instructors can use to incorporate vocal and body percussion exercises throughout the course. In these exercises, each student—whether a musician or nonmusician—becomes an active performer in a vocal and body percussion ensemble, exploring expressive soundscapes, aural textures, and rhythm. The exercises illustrate the concepts presented in the book. Plus, students can mix and match the exercises to create longer combinations or performance structures.
Additional student-friendly features include the following:- Opening quotes from students highlight the concepts covered in each chapter.
- Relevant concepts, vocabulary, and symbols are listed at the beginning of each chapter.
- A running glossary appears in the margins throughout each chapter.
- “Apply Your Knowledge” headings tell readers what they will learn when they complete an exercise or activity.
- Assessment worksheets help readers test their knowledge.
- Rhythmic applications pose real-world problems to solve through movement.
- CD-ROM boxes throughout the text direct readers to specific sections of the accompanying CD-ROM for further learning and to enhance information in the textbook.
- Discussion questions at the end of parts I and II present actual students’ questions, organized by topic.
Rhythmic Training for Dancers isn’t just theory—it’s about how to apply the basic skills and principles of rhythmic musicianship to dance. This text and CD-ROM package will benefit any person who wants to gain a better understanding of the language of music, the kinetics of rhythm, and the poetics of sound.
Accompanying CD-ROM brings concepts to life
An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers is a companion CD-ROM that makes it even easier for students to understand the concepts presented in Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Engaging and informative, the CD-ROM explores the multifaceted links between the worlds of music and movement. Students can listen to more than 300 audio samples and view 80 video clips that illustrate specific concepts presented in the book.
The CD-ROM is organized in three different sections:
A Dancer’s View, presents video samples of dance technique class combinations.
A Musician’s View, explores rhythm and meter through audio and video samples.
Practice, presents three self-paced, interactive drills to help students recognize how to divide time by sound; how to convey rhythm, tempo, phrasing, and meter without using words; and how to create musical phrases vocally.
Throughout the program the user may click on highlighted words and INFO buttons that link to supplemental audio or visual information.
About the Author
Robert Kaplan has worked as a musician in dance since 1976. As a composer, educator, performer, and accompanist for technique classes in modern dance, ballet, and tap, Kaplan has taught at national choreography conferences and major dance festivals since 1980. More than 60 of his original scores for choreography have been performed nationally and internationally.
Kaplan holds a master of music degree in composition from Arizona State University. He is a founding member and president of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance as well as a professor of dance at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1984. Kaplan lives with his wife, Charlene Brown, and their two children in Tempe, Arizona. In his free time, Kaplan enjoys hiking, playing guitar, and traveling.
Table of Contents
Part I. From a Dancer’s Viewpoint
Chapter 1. Musical Time: The Beat
The Beat
Making the Connection
Dividing Counts Qualitatively
Speak/Singing
Practice Methods
Summary
Exercises and Worksheet
Chapter 2. Phrasing
Elements of Phrasing
The 8-Count Phrase and Beyond
Duple: Twos and Fours
Threes
Sixes
Fives, Sevens, and Mixed Meters
Anacrusis
Breath Rhythms
Summary
Worksheet
Discussion Questions for Part I
Part II. From a Musician’s Viewpoint
Chapter 3. Organization of Musical Time
Metric Accents
Conducting Metric Patterns
Music Notation
Syncopation
Summary
Exercises and Worksheets
Chapter 4. Time Signatures
Time Signatures
Formula for Reading Time Signatures: Simple Meters
Notation, Metric Accents, and Time Signature
Kinesthetics of Simple Duple Time
Kinesthetics of Simple Triple Time
Asymmetrical Meter
Summary
Worksheets
Chapter 5. Extending Time and Further Rhythmic Manipulation
Tie
Augmentation Dot
Fermata
Sounding Three Quarters of a Beat
Triplets
Performance of Triplets
Approaching the Score
Use of Rests
Dynamics and Articulation
Motivic Manipulation
Summary
Exercises and Worksheets
Chapter 6. Compound Time
Compound Time Signatures
Duplets
Conducting Patterns and Time Signatures
Kinesthetics of Compound Meter
Visual Clarification of the Beat
Rhythmic “Homonyms”
Relationship Between Meter and Tempo (Advanced)
Summary
Exercises and Worksheets
Chapter 7. Triple Meters
Triple Groupings of Counts
More Kinesthetic Differences
Hemiola
Summary
Chapter 8. Polyrhythm and Polymeter
Polyrhythm
Polymeter
“Turnaround” in an Irregular Meter
Mixed Meter
Indiscernible Meter, Breath Rhythm, and Nonmetered Music
Summary
Exercises
Discussion Questions for Part II
Part III. Common Ground
Chapter 9. Natural Sound
Environment
Warming Up
Vocabulary
Simple Forms: Passing
Rhythm Chant
Exercises
Chapter 10. Body Percussion
Notation of Body Percussion
Exercises
Appendix A. Tempo Markings
Appendix B. Dynamic and Articulation Markings
Appendix C. Drawing Notes and Rests
Appendix D. CD-ROM General Instructions
Appendix E. Aural Quiz I
Appendix F. Aural Quiz II
Appendix G. Checklist for Observation
Appendix H. Self-Assessments
Appendix I. Clap and Stamp Drills
Appendix J. Full Example of Counterpoint Quartets
Appendix K. CD-ROM Music Credits
Glossary
Index
About the Author
CD-ROM Installation Instructions
Words of Praise
“Robert Kaplan’s new guide, Rhythmic Training for Dancers, is absolutely mind-blowing! He has lovingly assembled the most pertinent information for the dance and music communities in regard to the happy marriage of music and dance. Combined with the CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, it is simply enthralling and exquisite in its clarity. The sources that Rob has called on in his 10 years of compilation reveal his lack of ego and his concern for the field at large. I recommend Rhythmic Training for Dancers and An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers to all of my colleagues and hope that students worldwide receive maximal benefit from this fabulous text."
David Dorfman
Artistic Director
David Dorfman Dance
"I highly recommend Robert Kaplan’s book, Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Mr. Kaplan has tremendous knowledge in the area about which he chose to write."
Robert Barnett
Artistic director emeritus
Atlanta Ballet
“Professor Rob Kaplan has painstakingly organized an original learning experience that has no equal. He clearly deconstructs and demonstrates each solution, regardless of how complicated the task is. He makes counting surprisingly simple. Translating a tempo for a dancer to visualize is no small feat, but Kaplan invites and allows his students to successfully accomplish this repeatedly. I take my shoes off to Kaplan for providing a language and logic to the mysterious marriage between music and dance.”
Douglas Nielsen
Choreographer
Associate Professor, California State University at Long Beach, Department of Dance
Audiences
Textbook and CD-ROM package for music and dance department courses on music fundamentals for dance, such as rhythmic analysis, music and choreography, music for dancers, music skills, music theory for performers, creating rhythm and movement, dance accompaniment, music resources, and dance pedagogy. Reference for dance instructors and dancers in a variety of settings.
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