Transform your music classroom into a creative, vibrant, and playful space with Make It Music!
This package includes a book with over 200 cards with prompts to inspire thousands of short, unique movement activities that can be seamlessly incorporated into any lesson plan. The cards are divided into four decks.
Starter Cards
The blue Starter cards have prompts and ideas for beginning a new class or exercise. They give simple set-up instructions and will be most helpful for those new to Dalcroze-inspired exercises. They should prove fun and useful for all teachers regardless of your lesson planning routines. The Starter cards mostly focus on movement, gesture, or physical elements and are meant to be the beginnings of yet-to-be-written masterpieces.
Make It Music Cards
The yellow Make It Music (MiM) cards expand the opening activities on the Starter cards, adding musical elements and expressive qualities to turn a simple interaction into a musical experience. The MiM cards offer 50+ variations on an initial idea.
Challenge and Strategy Cards
The green Challenge cards are designed to stretch our creativity and encourage innovation to avoid getting too comfortable with familiar routines. The Challenge cards add extra-musical considerations to an established activity, calling upon the teacher to think more deeply about the possibilities presented by the evolving game.
Teaching Artist Cards
The purple Teaching Artist cards are for the teacher and can be played with or without students in the room. They are included as food for thought, a provocation to embrace yourself as a creative force in the classroom.
Anthony Molinaro and Stephen Neely are renowned music educators and leaders in the Dalcroze approach, bringing decades of combined experience to this resource. Anthony, a multi-instrumentalist, podcaster, and producer, has over 17 years of authentic Dalcroze teaching in the public school classroom and is a guest lecturer and Eurhythmics instructor at Carnegie Mellon University. His resources for Music ConstructED and QuaverEd as well as his podcast, The New Dalcrozian, have reached educators and students in more than 48 countries. Stephen, the Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon, directs the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center and Graduate Studies at the School of Music, where he has taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics to every BFA music performance and composition major since 1999. A dynamic clinician, co-chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, and co-founder of the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up, he has led workshops and courses worldwide. Together, they combine innovation, leadership, and a passion for transforming music education for teachers and students alike through the Dalcroze approach.
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