Body movement for musicians.(PEDAGOGY SATURDAY IX)

Publication: American Music Teacher

Publication Date: 01-OCT-05

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After inviting people to remove shoes and come into an open space, Julia Schnebly-Black began the session with an easy warm-up of swaying from one side to the other. Adding hand claps on the first beat, then all three, and, finally, all permutations of three, prepared the entrance of Mozart's Theme from the A Major Sonata, K. 331, played by Schnebly-Black, who then encouraged everyone to dance about the room, retaining the feeling of swaying and sometimes stepping the three eighths.

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