In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with
experience that can take place in the affective spaces generated when bodies move …

Flow experience is an optimal state determined by an individual's perception of high skill
and high challenge for a given task. In this study, young children's flow experience is …

This paper examines how body movement within the frames of Dalcroze Eurhythmics can
facilitate musical knowing. Merleau-Ponty's philosophical ideas seem to correspond with the …

The methods of the Dalcroze approach to music education—eurhythmics, solfège, and
improvisation—have had a profound influence on modern music education. In particular, the …

In the late 19th century, Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950), a professor
of harmony and solfège at the Geneva Conservatory, initiated the Dalcroze approach after …

In this article, we describe the agency development in one student with special needs
through Dalcroze-based music-and-movement activities. The case study was conducted in …

Can interactive technologies be useful for music education? This question was empirically
investigated during a nine-month longitudinal study in which twelve children (1st and 2nd …

In the current study, 11 expert music teachers were asked to reflect on their own practice and
compare their experience of individual and collective teaching settings. Adopting an …

Drawing on the phenomenology of embodied learning, this article presents suggestions for
ways that embodied learning can be enhanced in Dalcroze-inspired music education. Here …

Aesthetic doctrine hypothesizes a for-its-own-sake,'disinterested'autonomy of music from life
and assumes, then, that 'good'music exists only to be contemplated, and that proper …