Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics and motor function : the piano, from gross to fine motor skills
Responsable(s)
Sylvie Morgenegg
Équipe
Partenaires
Didier Grandjean, Université de Genève
Silvia Del Bianco, Institut Jaques-Dalcroze
Date de début: 2018
Présentation du projet
The Jaques-Dalcroze Institute (JDI) develops musical education through movement. This rhythmical education enables learners to develop the body as their first instrument, and facilitates an initiation in the piano. For several years, a range of pilot projects have seen the light, in particular the ‘Eurythmics and discovery of the piano’ course, which is offered to children aged 6, who take a rhythm class twice a week, with the playing of an instrument built into it. This specific aspect of the IJD led us to get a research project up and running in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE-NEAD) so as to be able to analyse certain elements of the child’s development. Indeed, the apprenticeship and transfer of motor skill schemes and cognitive and emotional schemes, as part of the playing of an instrument, is a field in which the cognitive and affective sciences can play an interesting role in understanding the mechanisms that enable these schemes to move from general motor skills to more refined motor skills. In this project we will therefore develop a series of participatory experiments, in which we will use questionnaires and observation grids, behavioural measures and techniques for recording movement.
