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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 N whether a musician or nonmusician N 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
