Introduction

I. Purpose

Why the Moving Body in the Aural Skills Classroom?

Healing the Mind-Body Split in College Music Training

Rhythms from the Body

What is the Kinesthetic Sense or "Sixth Sense?"

Traditional vs. Embodied Approach

Musical Affect and Expressive Performance

II. Methodology

Experience before Analysis

Spiral of Learning

Sensation before Conceptualization

Internalization and Automatisms

Improvisation: Cultivating One's "Voice"

Physiological Evidence

Reflective Stillness: Movement is Not an End in Itself

III. Getting Started (Notes to the Instructor)

Pedagogical Tips

Chapter 1: Basics

I. Preliminary Considerations

Physical Form (to the instructor)

Movement Tenets (to the instructor and students)

Overcoming Inhibitions (to the instructor)

II. Five Fundamental Exercises (to the instructor and students)

Quick Reaction

Inhibition and Excitation

Interference

Imitation and Canon

Disassociation

Chapter 2: Warm ups

Chapter 3: Rhythm
I: Basic Rhythmic Concepts and Terminology (to the instructor and students)
Time-Point vs. Gestural-Rhythm
Beat
Meter
Rhythmic Nuance
Definitions of Accents and Poetic Feet
Expressing Gestural Rhythms
Pedagogical Tips for Teaching Rhythm Exercises (to the instructor)
II: Rhythmic Subjects
1. Beat, Pulse, & Tempo
2. Meter-Simple and Compound
3. Augmentation-Rhythmic Duration and Expansion
4. Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters
5. Rests & Pauses-The Expression of Silence
6. Dotted Rhythm
7. Syncopation
8. Gestural Rhythmic Patterns
9. Cross Rhythms and Polyrhythms
10. Changing Meters
11. Uneven Meters
12. Additive Rhythms
13. Polymeters and Cross Rhythms
Chapter 4: Pitch, Scale, and Melody
1. The Scale-to and from tonic
2. Tonal Centering, Retention, and Recall
3. Relative Pitch & Scale Degree Function
4. Scalar Fragments-The Scale's Inner workings
5. Intervals-A Contextualized Approach
6. C-to-C Scales-A Comparative Study of Scales
7. Modulation-Strategies for Singing, Hearing, and Improvising
8. Sight Singing and Inner Hearing Strategies
Chapter 5: Harmony
1. Chords-Harmonic Building Blocks from the Scale
2. Inversions-Triads and Seventh Chords
3. Embodying Harmonic Function
4. Modulation
5. Embodying/Integrating Harmonic Progressions
Chapter 6

1. Phrase

2. Forms

3. Plastique Animèe

Additional Plastique Animée