THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND MOVEMENT IN EDUCATION

Abstract

This study first presents the role of music and movement in the education of ancient Greece, based on Plato and Aristotle’s philosophic views. These views had a major impact on most of the representatives of music education in the twentieth century: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zoltán Kodály and Carl Orff. We summarized their pedagogical contribution concerning general music education, stressing especially the importance they attach to the relationship between music and movement.

Keywords

• music education, ancient Greece, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, eurhythmics, Kodály method, Carl Orff, Schulwerk, elemental music.