The Essence of Rhetoric in Disney Music & Piano Playground: Games, Movement and Piano Instruction
The Essence of Rhetoric in Disney Music
will introduce you to the basic history and concepts of Rhetoric, and demonstrate those concepts by allowing you to experience
the rhetoric in the music at Walt Disney World. Starting with the prayer theory of Homer
and the ancient Greeks, we learn that Flattery, Quid pro Quo, and appeals for consistency are persuasive. Then Plato
coins the term "rhetoric," but uses it in a negative sense. His student, Aristotle, writes the most important
work on Rhetoric in history, emphasizing ethics, emotion, and logic. We believe some things just because we trust the
word of someone else. Aristotle also taught the three basic uses of rhetoric: in the courts, in the political assemblies,
and in the culture. The Romans added the 5 basic considerations of Rhetoric: Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory,
and Delivery. Contemporary rhetoricians, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, and Stephen Toulmin add concepts like identification,
cultural values, and the two-sided message. Disney provides musical experiences of all of these. Everyone is familiar
with Disney Music. But, few have analyzed what types of persuasive messages are communicated through Disney music. Find out
for yourself what the rest of the world is being persuaded by listening to
the music. Take, for example, the song "Two Brothers" in The American Adventure. Is it pro-war
or anti-war? How would you analyze the rhetoric of such music? This book explains the methods rhetoricians have
been using for thousands of years.
Piano
Playground: Games, Movements, and Group Activities for Piano Instruction combines the research into effective music
teaching from the author's graduate studies with her creativity in the application of those effective teaching methods.
Creature Christmas is a musical play or screenplay that is being offered
to prospective film, video, or local producers. The arranger, Michael Dunn, taught K-12 and College music courses for
40 years. The composer, Stan A. Lindsay, Ph.D., is Teaching Professor of Professional Communication at Florida State
University. Screenplay writers, Shane and Tristan Lindsay are authors of multiple screenplays and novels. For
information concerning the availability of this musical, please email Say_Press@yahoo.com.
