Music and Movement

Eurythmic-musical education – also called Eurythmics – originates from music education.
Emile Jaques-Dalcroeze founded eurythmics at the beginning of the 20th century. As a subject it is an essential characteristic of human beings, music and movement. In eurythmics, musical and motor skills are tested with the aim of promoting educational competences that sensitize perception and promote social behaviour while expressing creativity.
Music and movement is used as a means to develop educational skills on the one hand and as content to learn different skills on the other.

These skills refer to:
- gross and fine motor skills
- physical reactions
- perceptual awareness
- posture training
- movement
- improvising with voice and with different instruments
- spatial skills, e.g., orientation
- learning temporal skills such as fostering a sense of rhythm
- structure music and movement in time
- acquiring dynamic skills,
- developing reaction and coordination skills
- formal skills such as structure in music and movement
- recognizing voice and material, being able to name them, learning to shape and reflect on them