Resumen de Suggested Guidelines Aided by Visual Materials for Teaching Egyptian Folk Songs with Eurhythmy
Hassan Marwa Abdelsalam Soleiman Soleiman
This paper aims to suggest guidelines for non-Waldorf elementary music educators in how to apply eurhythmy to teaching Egyptian folk songs aided by visual materials. Accordingly, Egyptian music educators could easily imagine inspired spatial formations and exercises with Steiner’s methodology to better express the chosen sample. In addition, the usage of visual materials will help facilitate the imagination, flexibility, planning, and adaptation of this kind of music lesson. A eurhythmy lesson sequence (entrance- main lesson- exit) is presented aided by visual materials such as diagrams and animated forms for original choreographies extracted from 3 different Egyptian folk songs (rhythmmelody- formation); the findings were similar to previous research by the author analysing how eurhythmy gestures and movements bettered children’s singing of Egyptian folk songs and cultural awareness. The implication of the theoretical framework focused not only on visual design, but also on increasing deep local knowledge into visual guidelines for educational design contexts. The researcher expects to apply the approach on Egyptian music educators to measure its effectiveness on their strategies for teaching Egyptian folk songs; in addition, it could represent a step toward contributing to clearer indications for eurhythmy and music education associations, and to sustainability for Egyptian folk songs and eurhythmy teaching. The purpose is to transfer the method for teaching folk songs using Eurhythmy lessons through suggested guidelines aided by visual materials to non-Waldorf music educators
