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Music for dance & creative movement
Welcome to the SAM 'music for dance' pages
Here we have examples and ideas of music and sounds for dance - especially children's dance - as well as creative movement classes and performance
I've lived and worked with dance and music for some time ..
Ballet schools piano playing, touring groups, music composition for dance performances, plus years of being involved with Australian Aboriginal traditional ceremony - where dance, music, environment, season, people and location are all integral to an occasion .. a wonderful learning experience !
I think the best way of integrating music into dance performance is to use it live, partly 'set' and partly extemporized
Metre, mood, dynamics and response all available instantly - the choreographer and musician must be able to work well together !
For the majority of dance and movement classes, rehearsals, development (and even performance), using live music is impossible - for all kinds of reasons; so maybe this may help ..
We're assembling a catalogue of music - and sounds - here for dance
There are recorded music sketches (old and new) plus nature sounds (birds, frogs, water, wind, fire, sea)
We use nature sounds quite a bit here, they tend to engage (especially) children
Just click the 'play' button to hear a 30" sample; 'right-click' or 'option-click' on the 'download' links to download the same free sample
Some of the completed pieces are available for purchased download; click on the 'full track' links
Please feel free to contribute ideas, request possible additions, leave comments
Nature sounds:
3170 element
Sea on beach: small waves rolling into sandy shore, break into foam, pause between events
download 30"
Promontory small beach (3170) - full track
3046 nature
Frogs: calling out in their frog voices (these are 'banjo' frogs) to get a response from their neighbours and to let others know that they are here
download 30"
Banjo frogs (3046) - full track
3145 element
Wind: sometimes a quiet beeeze, at other times scary, loud and destructive; causes trees, grasses to rattle and shriek, or whisper softly
download 30"
Promontory wind ti-tree (3145) - full track
Older music:
tracks
'Tracks': desert animals, hot sand, sun, animals peek out, seek safety, run, stop, look, run again, scampering across the sand leaving their tracks
download 58" (whole track)
sea
Sea: the tide comes in, holds, returns, holds, recyclesmay be calm, quiet, reflective, may be very busy, dangerous, dramatic
download 30"
eucalypt wattle
Wattle blossom: for small children, light, yellow blossom in sun-shine, triplet skips
download 30"
Eucalypt wattle blossom - full track
eucalypt water
Water: calm water, stream, flowing, reflective, shapes
download 30"
Eucalypt water - full track
eucalypt kangaroos
Animals that bounce, hopping across the country on their large feet balanced by big tails, occassionally take extra big jumps to hop over fences, trees
download 30"
Eucalypt kangaroos - full track
eucalypt rosellas
Rosellas; brightly coloured parrots, crimson, sometimes yellow and green; rush around squawking, sometimes sit and call in a softer bell tone ..
download 30"
Eucalypt rosellas - full track
eucalypt soldier ants
The working insects; seem organised and always busy - ordered scurrying, collecting food, depositing it in their ant nests
download 30"
Eucalypt soldier ants - full track
from Jan Deans, Director, Early learning centre, Univ of Melbourne
'The music is suitable for young children (because) it provides stimulation for broadly based explorations of the body, body activities, space, force and time.
It also connects children to their experience of both the natural and (man) made world.
The exciting range of dynamic variations inherent in the music allow for open ended explorations - with enough structure to be able to manage the flow of the lesson.
The inclusion of bird and frog sounds captures that children's attention and enable them to focus on listening and identifying.
'Eucalypt' (1983) cassette - the story:
A musical trip through the Australian bush, originally composed for dance.
An ambassador gnome is sent to Australia from the world of gnomes to seek and select which treasures from this country are worthy of inclusion in the gnome encyclopaedia.
A magpie guide takes the ambassador around the country - discovering wattle trees, rosella birds, kangaroos, water, fire, wombats, opals, soldier ants - and the eucalypt.
Note: a gnome is a diminutive spirit of subterranean race guarding treasures of the earth.
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