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- At the age of three, Monk was diagnosed with strabismus and her mother signed her up to a Dalcroze eurhythmics programme, a technique which integrates music with movement. Monk says that it "has influenced everything I've done. It's why dance and movement and film are so integral to my music. It's why I see music so visually."
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May 30, 2017 · You learn notes, rhythms, words. If you’re a pianist, you learn fingerings. If you’re a trumpeter, you learn how to form your lips into the proper embouchure. The situation would be...
Aug 1, 2024 · Meredith Monk at age 3, around the time she was enrolled in Dalcroze Eurhythmics training, which teaches children music through body movement.
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Jan 11, 2011 · Meredith Monk's music has been linked to the sacred vocal works of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century mystic abbess and composer. It's often been said that Monk's voice can sound...
Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which there are no words.
Jan 29, 2006 · Composer Meredith Monk uses 'extended vocal technique' to build her ethereal music,which she taught at contemporary music workshop class assembled by Weill Music Institute of Carnegie...
Oct 11, 2013 · Early works were purely choreographic, but an appreciation of the honesty and openheartedness of folk music helped Monk develop her own extraordinary singing style.
Jan 11, 2011 · When Meredith Monk first came on the scene in the mid-'60s, complexity dominated concert music. There was metric modulation, retrograde inversions of tone rows, and combinatoriality. Composers demanded huge orchestras to assault their audiences, and prided themselves on impossible scores.
