Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 9: Musical Form

Research Project: Movement

Wear loose, comfortable clothing and clear enough room for a typical exercise routine. Keep paper and a writing implement handy to record the following three answers. Think in particular about musical elements such as rhythm, instrumentation, melody, and tempo for your answers.

Play the Tchaikovsky Dance of the Reed Pipes and walk around the room.

1. What do your footsteps "tell" you about meter and tempo?

Next, play the same work again and include arm movements when you walk this time.

2. Which musical elements create differences in your movements between sections A and B?

Now play Beethoven's Contradance No. 7. When you walk to this, add arm, shoulder, and head movements.

3. Which musical elements create differences in your movements between Beethoven's sections A and B?