The education of this sense to the purposes of music is at the heart of the Dalcroze philosophy. Students experience a combination of listening and physical movement in Dalcroze activities, while working towards musical mastery, spontaneity, and joy. In direct instruction, theory should follow what has been practiced in the classroom. Dalcroze activities encourage better classroom cooperation and team spirit, which leads to easier classroom management.
Solfege trains the ear, eye, and voice in pitch, melody, and harmony.
Improvisation brings all elements together according to the student s own invention in movement, with voice, and at an instrument. Students walk the beat. Long and short, or even and uneven rhythms are shown by skipping. The front student steps the beat while the back student steps the rhythmic phrase of a particular song. Students then use repeating the same directions as above.