I don't have a huge amount of musical knowledge, and never listened to much classical music when I was younger, but having one DD, and to instrument playing sons, I now listen to a great deal of music, mainly different types of classical music, but a variety of other genres too. I was also going to suggest just listening to as much music as possible - and not just well known classical ballet music. Perhaps you weren't the only one to get lower marks for musicality this term anyway!! So the advice about taking free classes outside exam classes.if you have any spare time at the moment that is!.is good because you can be free to interpret the music how you want to and get used to having to learn combinations to different music quite quickly.and this should help your musicality to develop further. When there is an "official " line in interpreting the timing in courses like RAD and BBO I think this has to be adhered to I suppose because of pupils taking exams and maybe some timings would be marked down if not "done to the book" as it were. I'm not saying my counting or interpretation was correct but it's how I felt it should be done to be satisfying to do!! With the adage I just thought there was another way of counting the music which emphasised the main "meat" of it so to speak rather than keeping it all even. Especially the petit allegro piece as if you stuck rigidly to the written timing you always ended up late so you had to sort of start almost before the music as it were to not be late!! I remember in the grade 5 BBO syllabus which I was doing a couple of years ago there were two pieces one adage and one petit allegro piece in which I disagreed with the written out timing supplied to teachers. There is also more than one way of interpreting and even timing a piece of dance to the music. This is probably very different from doing RAD classes and ballet in general so as you say new types of music and different dance styles etc quite a lot to get used to at once!! I just wondered whether you think this may have affected your "score" Hi Swanprincess I think others have touched on the question I was going to ask now. I only scored a 2 ('acceptable') for musicality and pointework, which were my lowest scores, so I definitely need to improve on those! This was the first report I have had (my local dance school don't give much feedback, and I hadn't done any other associate schemes), each section of class was scored on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being poor, 5 being excellent. I played piano for a few months, but had to stop- the teacher said she expected me to practice for at least half an hour a day, which wasn't really possible because of dance commitments, also I only had access to a piano at the weekends whilst I was staying with my dad!!!! Thankyou Lin that's really helpful I was confused because my teacher at my local dance school said that I have excellent musicality (but that is in RAD exam work, having heard the music many times before and knowing the combination thoroughly), however when I started GCSE Dance at school I really struggled to hear the tempo in contemporary dance music- at first I couldn't hear any rhythm at all, but finally it made sense!! Have you had better reports on your musicality in the past? Sometimes too very young dancers like yourself are having to battle with the mastery of technique and this can get in the way on occasions of your relationship with the music. and perhaps trying to choreograph some music you really like a lot will help too.because then you have to try to relate the passion you have for the music to the dance. Sometimes this can help a lot but listening to music a lot too. This doesn't mean though that EVERY time you dance your innate musicality is actually expressed!! If only!! and dancing certain roles.then the dancer themselves becomes more tuned in to a piece and can show this relationship in the way they articulate their dance.įor me part of the passion of dance is connected to a passion for music and I'm sure many dancers have this connection. Sometimes you can improve musicality by just having lots of experience of dancing. Just as a good musician can do this via his instrument.piano or whatever. I think at its most basic level musicality can be about rhythm and keeping in time etc.īut there is link with artistry and performance quality too in the sense that a dancer with musicality who is at the highest level is able to illuminate the music as it were.so that although you have heard a piece dozens of times somehow they can draw you in and you notice particular phrases perhaps not fully noticed before.
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