Type: Book

This beautifully written, easily understood guide to approaching music is written from the dancer’s viewpoint. It offers a two-part exploration of music as it relates to dance. It begins with an introduction to aspects of musicality that dancers (and other music lovers) can explore and put into practice immediately. Musical sound production and transmittal are explained as they pertain to dancers—rhythm, loudness, pitch, harmony and how to create music for dance. Concludes with an overview of the ways dancers relate to music onstage.