Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Eurhythmics

This article focuses on the Eurhytmics method developed by Jaques-Dalcroze. The rhetorical method taught on the basis of solfege-ear education, movement and improvisation is the subject of this article. It has been tried to explain how this new form of expression is reached and how the method aims a musical identity. Following the short background of Dacroze, the starting point and the development of the method is explained and the principles of this method and its contributions to music education and its effects on the students are discussed in detail. Understanding of the theoretical background of rhythmic method aiming a bodily expression in a strong sense of rhythm and the applications of this structure; the contribution of the method to music education has been tried to be explained with examples in terms of the development of musical identity. Exercises like “Walking exercises in simple values” “Walking exercises with rhythmic arm movements”, “Walking exercises to independent the limbs”, “Walking exercises by singing”, “Walking exercises toaugment-reduce the rhytms” are explained with by taking an impression of how to make live narratives. However, since the rhythmic method is based on bodily movement and coordination, it should be kept in mind that it can be taught not only in a theoretical way but in the classroom as a result of one-on-one training