Subject Guides: Dance 264: Music for Dancers: Music for Dancers

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Books & Videos

Ear Training for the Body by Katherine Teck
Call Number: ML 3460 .T38 1994

ISBN: 0871271923

Publication Date: 1994-09-01

An approach to music from the dancer's viewpoint. Copies are on course reserve.
Music Fundamentals for Dance by Nola Nolen Holland
Call Number: MT 7 .H74 M87 2013

ISBN: 9780736096522

Publication Date: 2013-01-23

Helps dancers understand the relationships between music and dance.
Musicality by Geoffrey Hearn
Call Number: MD 1753.7 .M87 H42 2011 DVD

Highlights all actions that add to the musicality of the Arunas and Katusha dance performance: waltz, tango and quickstep. Can be studied in slow motion.
Making Music for Modern Dance by Katherine Teck (Editor)
Call Number: ML 3411.5 .M53 T43 2011

ISBN: 9780199743209

Collaboration in the Formative Years of a New American Art. First-hand accounts by both leading choreographers and their composers.
Choreographing from Within by Diana F. Green
Call Number: MD 1782.5 .G73 C46 2010

ISBN: 9780736076197

Chapters 5 and 7 are particularly helpful for the dancer who is interested in music.
Music Theory for Tap Dancers by Steve Zee
Call Number: MD 1794 .F72 M87 2008 DVD

This DVD covers the need-to-know music concepts for dancers. Learn about 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, triplets, 1/16 notes, straight vs. swinging, bars, phrases, 32 Bar and Blues Choruses.
Image of the Singing Air by Eva Magdalene Gholson
Call Number: MD 1782.5 .G46 I42 2004

ISBN: 0761829997

Hands-on approaches to score analysis and questions of form for choreographers.

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Online Resources re Music/Dance

International Guild of Musicians in Dance Purpose of the organization: To document the history of musicians in dance ; To foster collaborations between dancers and musicians ; To establish standards of excellence for musicians in dance ; To establish training programs for musicians in dance
Making music for dancers Playing live music for dance performances.
Feeling Movement: Music and Dance A philosophical framework, amplified by speculation grounded on recent work in cognitive psychology, for characterizing the relation of one kind of dance to one kind of music.

Dance 264: Music for Dancers: Music for Dancers

Dance 264: Basic music notation, simple and complex rhythmic patterns, and polyrhythms; analysis of selected international music styles; brief historical survey.

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