Clinician: Julia Schnebly-Black
June 2-4 • MT 8:30-4:30, W 8:30-noon
MUSE 429-001 (CRN 11103); MUSE 529-001 (CRN 11105)
In this course students will experience the movement-based teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics, including sight-singing and improvisation. The activities will focus on how the principles of this approach to music learning can be used in the elementary classroom as well as in private teaching. This class involves active participation. Piano skills are not a prerequisite.
Julia Schnebly-Black, Ph.D., has earned the Dalcroze Certificate and License from Carnegie-Mellon U. under Marta Sanchez; B.Mus, Peabody Conservatory, M.Mus, Yale U., Ph.D., U.WA. She has presented sessions at national and international conferences. In addition to private teaching she conducts classes at the Seattle Conservatory of Music for children from three years to high school age. She is the founder and director of Dalcroze Northwest, a summer program at the University of Washington, and advisor to the Northwest Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America. Julia is co-author with Stephen Moore of The Rhythm Inside: Connecting Body, Mind and Spirit Through Music and Rhythm One to One.
