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'What did you say? asked Ursula, looking up in peaceful surprise. 'Will you sing while I do Dalcroze? said Gudrun, suffering at having to repeat herself. Ursula thought a moment, gathering her straying wits together. 'While you do ? she asked vaguely. 'Dalcroze movements, said Gudrun, suffering tortures of self-consciousness, even because of her sister. 'Oh Dalcroze! I couldn't catch the name.
It is hard to explain the sympathetic union of co-ordination and rhythm. I have never found any explanation or even reference to this. Even Dalcroze, who has so many good ideas regarding rhythm, has not grasped the principles of co-ordination of different parts of the body and especially the relation of co-ordination to rhythm.
Workmen, in twos and threes, came past the little house from their toil among the vines, and fragments of the Dalcroze songs rose to his ear songs that the children loved, and that he had not heard for nearly a quarter of a century. Their haunting refrains completed then the spell, for all genuine spells are set to some peculiar music of their own.
These Dalcroze melodies were exactly right.... The figures melted away into the single shadow of the village street. The houses swallowed them, voices, footsteps, and all. And his eye, wandering down among the lights that twinkled against the wall of mountains, picked out the little ancient house, nestling so close beside the church that they shared a wall in common.
I shall be asked with kindly scorn whether I have heard of Froebel and Pestalozzi, whether I know the work that is being done by Miss Mason and the Dottoressa Montessori or, best of all as I think, the Eurythmics School of Jacques Dalcroze at Hellerau near Dresden. Jacques Dalcroze, like Plato, believes in saturating his pupils with music.
It is to the genius of M. Jacques Dalcroze that the world of to-day owes some idea of what may be effected by rhythmic training, and M. Dalcroze started his work with the same aim that Froebel set before the mother, that of making the child capable of appreciation, capable of being made "richer by the lives of others."
But Froebel prophesied that far more than appreciation would come from proper rhythmic training, and this M. Dalcroze has amply proved. "Through movement the mother tries to lead the child to consciousness of his own life.
I preach joy, for it alone gives the power of creating useful and lasting work" Jaques Dalcroze There are, roughly speaking, three classes of interpreters in Music: performers or executants, composers, and teachers.
Always this desolating, agonised feeling, that she was outside of life, an onlooker, whilst Ursula was a partaker, caused Gudrun to suffer from a sense of her own negation, and made her, that she must always demand the other to be aware of her, to be in connection with her. 'Do you mind if I do Dalcroze to that tune, Hurtler? she asked in a curious muted tone, scarce moving her lips.
M. Jaques Dalcroze has shown, through his Rhythmic Gymnastics, the extraordinary effect that rhythmic movements can have, not only on physical health, but on mental and moral poise. For highly nervous children some such work is of especial benefit, but for all children it is of great value. It should be supplemented in the ear-training class by constant practice in beating time to tunes.
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