Say ‘music and movement’ and we automatically think about early years education. We think about action songs, circle games and puppets. We think about a phase of learning in which the important relationship between sound and the motion of the body is both well understood and explicitly taught.
Early years practitioners aren't the only ones to have made this connection. The interplay between the sonic and the kinetic is embedded within the language of professional music making too. To set a tempo of andante is to invoke the speed of a human stroll. The courante is defined by its running quality, a berceuse by rocking, and a barcarolle by rowing. We use these words as shorthand for the quality of movement that musicians have in mind when they compose, listen, or perform.
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