The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze

Jaques-Dalcroze Emile

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[Illustration: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.]


THE EURHYTHMICS
OF JAQUES-DALCROZE

Introduction by
Professor M. E. Sadler, LL.D. (Columbia)
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds

BOSTON
SMALL MAYNARD AND COMPANY
1915

Printed in Great Britain




{_Pas gar ho bios tou anthropou eurythmias te kai
euarmostias deitai._}

"Rhythmische Gymnastik" is the name by which the Dalcroze method is
known in Germany, but whether or not the German words are adequate,
their literal translation into English certainly gives too narrow an
idea of the scope of the system to any one unacquainted with it.
Rhythmical "gymnastics," in the natural meaning of the word, is a part
of the Dalcroze training, and a not unimportant part, but it is only one
application of a much wider principle; and accordingly, where the term
occurs in the following pages, it must be understood simply as denoting
a particular mode of physical drill. But for the principle itself and
the total method embodying it, another name is needed, and the term
"Eurhythmics" has been here coined for the purpose. The originality of
the Dalcroze method, the fact that it is a discovery, gives it a right
to a name of its own: it is because it is in a sense also the
rediscovery of an old secret that a name has been chosen of such plain
reference and derivation. Plato, in the words quoted above, has said
that the whole of a man's life stands in need of a right rhythm: and it
is natural to see some kinship between this Platonic attitude and the
claim of Dalcroze that his discovery is not a mere refinement of
dancing, nor an improved method of music-teaching, but a principle that
must have effect upon every part of life.

JOHN W. HARVEY.


CONTENTS

NOTE: John W. Harvey 5

THE EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
HELLERAU: Prof. M. E. Sadler 11

RHYTHM AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION:} Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 15
FROM LECTURES AND ADDRESSES: } Translated by P. & E. Ingham 26

THE METHOD: GROWTH AND PRACTICE: Percy B. Ingham 31

LESSONS AT HELLERAU: Ethel Ingham 48

LIFE AT HELLERAU: Ethel Ingham 55

THE VALUE OF EURHYTHMICS TO ART: M. T. H. Sadler. 60


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze _Frontispiece_

The College: from the East _Facing page_ 15

The College: Front 26

The College: General View from the South-East 31

Beating 4/4 }
Movements for the Semibreve}
_Between pages_ 36 _and_ 37

Beating 5/4 in Canon without Expression}
Beating 5/4 in Canon with Expression }
" " 44 " 45

The Air Bath }