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Title: The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze

Author: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

Contributor: M. E. Sadler

Release Date: June 1, 2007 [EBook #21653]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.]

THE EURHYTHMICS
OF JAQUES-DALCROZE

Introduction by
Professor M. E. Sadler, LL.D. (Columbia)
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds

BOSTON
SMALL MAYNARD AND COMPANY
1915

Printed in Great Britain

{_Pas gar ho bios tou anthropou eurythmias te kai
euarmostias deitai._}

"Rhythmische Gymnastik" is the name by which the Dalcroze method is
known in Germany, but whether or not the German words are adequate,
their literal translation into English certainly gives too narrow an
idea of the scope of the system to any one unacquainted with it.
Rhythmical "gymnastics," in the natural meaning of the word, is a part
of the Dalcroze training, and a not unimportant part, but it is only one
application of a much wider principle; and accordingly, where the term
occurs in the following pages, it must be understood simply as denoting
a particular mode of physical drill. But for the principle itself and
the total method embodying it, another name is needed, and the term
"Eurhythmics" has been here coined for the purpose. The originality of
the Dalcroze method, the fact that it is a discovery, gives it a right
to a name of its own: it is because it is in a sense also the
rediscovery of an old secret that a name has been chosen of such plain
reference and derivation. Plato, in the