The following dialogue was published in the Brazilian music culture magazine, Ariel, in 1924. Its editor, the pianist and composer, Antônio Leal de Sá Pereira, provided his readers with this text which was written by the increasingly famous Swiss pedagogue, Emile Jacques Dalcroze (1865-1950). In the 1920s, his pedagogical proposal —now known as rhythmic Dalcroze— spread to Brazil through European magazines that made it into the hands of influential personalities from the musical medium, such as Mário de Andrade, and through the experience of Brazilian musicians, like Sá Pereira, who had studied in Europe and was in contact with the pedagogue’s work.