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		Rhythmic Training for Dancers Book (Copyright 2002, 272 pages) Price: $54.00 # HK-0-73603-780-2

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 Ñ whether a musician or nonmusician Ñ 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 actual students' questions, organized by topic.

Rhythmic Training for Dancers isn't just theory Ñ it's about how to apply the basic skills and principles of rhythmic musicianship to dance. This text and CD-ROM package will benefit any person who wants to gain a better understanding of the language of music, the kinetics of rhythm, and the poetics of sound.

Accompanying CD-ROM brings concepts to life.

An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers is a companion CD-ROM that makes it even easier for students to understand the concepts presented in Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Engaging and informative, the CD-ROM explores the multifaceted links between the worlds of music and movement. Students can listen to more than 300 audio samples and view 80 video clips that illustrate specific concepts presented in the book.

The CD-ROM is organized in three different sections:

• A Dancer's View presents video samples of dance technique class combinations.
• A Musician's View explores rhythm and meter through audio and video samples.
• Practice presents three self-paced, interactive drills to help students recognize how to divide time by sound; how to convey rhythm, tempo, phrasing, and meter without using words; and how to create musical phrases vocally.

Throughout the program the user may click on highlighted words and INFO buttons that link to supplemental audio or visual information.

Robert Kaplan has worked as a musician in dance since 1976. As a composer, educator, performer, and accompanist for technique classes in modern dance, ballet, and tap, Kaplan has taught at national choreography conferences and major dance festivals since 1980. More than 60 of his original scores for choreography have been performed nationally and internationally.

Kaplan holds a master of music degree in composition from Arizona State University. He is a founding member and president of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance as well as a professor of dance at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1984. Kaplan lives with his wife, Charlene Brown, and their two children in Tempe, Arizona. In his free time, Kaplan enjoys hiking, playing guitar, and traveling.

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I From a Dancer's Viewpoint
  • Chapter 1 Musical Time: The Beat
    • The Beat
    • Making the Connection
    • Dividing Counts Qualitatively
    • Speak/Singing
    • Practice Methods
    • Summary
    • Exercises and Worksheet
  • Chapter 2 Phrasing
    • Elements of Phrasing
    • The 8-Count Phrase and Beyond
    • Duple: Twos and Fours
    • Threes
    • Sixes
    • Fives, Sevens, and Mixed Meters
    • Anacrusis
    • Breath Rhythms
    • Summary
    • Worksheet
    • Discussion Questions for Part I
• Part II From a Musician's Viewpoint
  • Chapter 3 Organization of Musical Time
    • Metric Accents
    • Conducting Metric Patterns
    • Music Notation
    • Syncopation
    • Summary
    • Exercises and Worksheets
  • Chapter 4 Time Signatures
    • Time Signatures
    • Formula for Reading Time Signatures: Simple Meters
    • Notation, Metric Accents, and Time Signature
    • Kinesthetics of Simple Duple Time
    • Kinesthetics of Simple Triple Time
    • Asymmetrical Meter
    • Summary
    • Worksheets
  • Chapter 5 Extending Time and Further Rhythmic Manipulation
    • Tie
    • Augmentation Dot
    • Fermata
    • Sounding Three Quarters of a Beat
    • Triplets
    • Performance of Triplets
    • Approaching the Score
    • Use of Rests
    • Dynamics and Articulation
    • Motivic Manipulation
    • Summary
    • Exercises and Worksheets
  • Chapter 6 Compound Time
    • Compound Time Signatures
    • Duplets
    • Conducting Patterns and Time Signatures
    • Kinesthetics of Compound Meter
    • Visual Clarification of the Beat
    • Rhythmic "Homonyms"
    • Relationship Between Meter and Tempo (Advanced)
    • Summary
    • Exercises and Worksheets
  • Chapter 7 Triple Meters
    • Triple Groupings of Counts
    • More Kinesthetic Differences
    • Hemiola
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8 Polyrhythm and Polymeter
    • Polyrhythm
    • Polymeter
    • "Turnaround" in an Irregular Meter
    • Mixed Meter
    • Indiscernible Meter, Breath Rhythm, and Nonmetered Music
    • Summary
    • Exercises
    • Discussion Questions for Part II
• Part III Common Ground
  • Chapter 9 Natural Sound
    • Environment
    • Warming Up
    • Vocabulary
    • Simple Forms: Passing
    • Rhythm Chant
    • Exercises
  • Chapter 10 Body Percussion
    • Notation of Body Percussion
    • Exercises
• Appendix A Tempo Markings
• Appendix B Dynamic and Articulation Markings
• Appendix C Drawing Notes and Rests
• Appendix D CD-ROM General Instructions
• Appendix E Aural Quiz I
• Appendix F Aural Quiz II
• Appendix G Checklist for Observation
• Appendix H Self-Assessments
• Appendix I Clap and Stamp Drills
• Appendix J Full Example of Counterpoint Quartets
• Appendix K CD-ROM Music Credits
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Author
• CD-ROM Installation Instructions

"Robert Kaplan's new guide, Rhythmic Training for Dancers, is absolutely mind-blowing! He has lovingly assembled the most pertinent information for the dance and music communities in regard to the happy marriage of music and dance. Combined with the CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, it is simply enthralling and exquisite in its clarity. The sources that Rob has called on in his 10 years of compilation reveal his lack of ego and his concern for the field at large. I recommend Rhythmic Training for Dancers and An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers to all of my colleagues and hope that students worldwide receive maximal benefit from this fabulous text."
David Dorfman
Artistic Director, David Dorfman Dance

"I highly recommend Robert Kaplan's book, Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Mr. Kaplan has tremendous knowledge in the area about which he chose to write."
Robert Barnett
Artistic director emeritus, Atlanta Ballet

"Professor Rob Kaplan has painstakingly organized an original learning experience that has no equal. He clearly deconstructs and demonstrates each solution, regardless of how complicated the task is. He makes counting surprisingly simple. Translating a tempo for a dancer to visualize is no small feat, but Kaplan invites and allows his students to successfully accomplish this repeatedly. I take my shoes off to Kaplan for providing a language and logic to the mysterious marriage between music and dance."
Douglas Nielsen
Choreographer
Associate professor, California State University at Long Beach department of dance

Textbook and CD-ROM package for music and dance department courses on music fundamentals for dance, such as rhythmic analysis, music and choreography, music for dancers, music skills, music theory for performers, creating rhythm and movement, dance accompaniment, music resources, and dance pedagogy. Reference for dance instructors and dancers in a variety of settings.

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