Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze Practice

Histories of Music and Movement

John Habron-James, Johanna Laakkonen, Selma Landen Odom , Sandra J. Nash

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The Boydell Press
10 June 2025

Dance; Techniques of music & music tutorials

A landmark publication in Dalcroze studies that explores the music and movement teaching originated by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze as a diverse and living practice.

Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze Practice provides new perspectives on the pioneering music education developed by Swiss composer Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950), who explored how to learn music through listening, moving, singing, and improvising with the original instrument, the human body. It is the first collection of Dalcroze histories to focus on practice itself, showing how methods and ideas have moved among and been shaped by people, performance practices, and contexts from music education and music therapy to dance, theatre, and physical education. Rather than focusing primarily on Jaques-Dalcroze and his teaching, these histories reveal the collaborations of many people from various backgrounds and places over more than a century of practice.

Sixteen international authors mark out pathways into the past, exploring how Dalcroze-based teaching has transcended disciplinary boundaries and moved across borders transnationally, from Europe to Australia and North and South America. They guide us through landscapes of Dalcroze practice where music and movement provide benefits to students, teachers, and performers, as well as children, seniors, disabled people, and those with special educational needs. Demonstrating how practitioners and supporters have interacted with social, political, and educational change, the book considers the impact of two World Wars, advances in technology, and global health challenges on the evolution of Dalcroze practice.

Contributors: Marie-Laure Bachmann, William R. Bauer, Gilles Comeau, Mônica Fagundes Dantas, Katarzyna Forecka-Wasko, John Habron-James, Marja-Leena Juntunen, Erik M. Kirchgäßner, Silke Kruse-Weber, Johanna Laakkonen, Janice Zarpellon Mazo, Sandra Nash, Selma Landen Odom, Joan Pope, Dorothy de Val, Rose Whyman

Contributions by: Sandra J. Nash, Gilles Comeau
Edited by: John Habron-James, Johanna Laakkonen, Selma Landen Odom
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781783277964
ISBN 10: 1783277963
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr JOHN HABRON-JAMES is Professor in Music and Head of Music, Health, and Wellbeing at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Dr JOHANNA LAAKKONEN is Director of the Theatre Museum in Helsinki and was previously Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Helsinki Dr SELMA LANDEN ODOM is Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto, where she taught dance studies and research methods from 1972 to 2012