Singing and Jumping Opens the Way to a Vital Music Foundation
Part IV: The Singing and Jumping Exercises – Real Sound-Experiences Lead to Real Gestures

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by Kate Reese Hurd 

In December 2019, the first half of Part I of my Singing and Jumping Opens the Way music eurythmy report was posted at our site. The brief article that is appearing in our spring 2022 Newsletter, “The Earliest Records Show the Angle-Gestures as Moveable Do,” will unfold much more comprehensively as Part III of this larger report. What is posted here now is the final section, Part IV. When the report is done and published, this final Part will no doubt have been revised somewhat, but I felt it important to post it without waiting.

TABLE OF CONTENTS of the Singing and Jumping report:
Preface
Basics for the Best Use of the Report
Prologue: Arriving at a Boundary in Music Studies and Performance
Part I: The Archetypal Scale and Its Disappearance – A Memoir
Part II: Contemplating More Carefully Our Fixing of the
       Archetype to One Audible Pitch-tone and Scale
           Taking Another Look at Our First Exercise
           The Hexachord and the Process of Mutation
           Our Notation…  (and etc.)
 Part III: Fixed Do and Moveable Do in Our Eurythmy
           The Early History of Our Angle-Gestures
           The Lectures
           Developments Since 1924
           Scale Degrees, ‘Tones’ and Intervals
           Moving Toward a Moveable Do Practice –
                  Bach’s Arioso and his Air on the G String (and etc.)
Part IV: The Singing and Jumping Exercises –
       Real Sound-Experiences Lead to Real Gestures
           Introduction to Part IV
           The Eurythmy Meditation
           The Agrippa von Nettesheim Drawings Come to Life
           Beginning to Sing
           Entering the Scale Degrees
           Entering the Melodic Intervals
           Entering the Triads
           Exploring Harmonic Progressions and Modulation
           Entering Music With Fresh Sensibilities
           Equal Temperament: Does It Change Things?
           Atonal and Twelve-Tone?
           Closing
Materials
References, Endnotes and About the Author
Appendix I, “The Scale Degree Intervals Give Rise to Our Tonal Music Gebilde” 
Appendix II, “Fixed Do and Moveable Do in Our Eurythmy: Does It Matter?”

Wishing you a wonderful musical journey,
Kate Reese Hurd
karehuuu@gmail.com

Part IV for download:
SingingJumping,PartIV,Exercises,KateReeseHurd,031422,pdf