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The
Kodály Concept:
The Kodály Music Institute is based upon the teaching philosophy,
concepts, and practices as developed by the Hungarian composer,
linguist, philosopher and educator, Zoltán Kodály
(1882-1967).
The Kodály
(pronounced KÓH-dye) concept has spread and been adapted in over
40 nations throughout the world. It is a performance-based
music education system
that stresses learning via authentic multi-cultural folksongs, rhymes,
dances and
singing games, jazz and classical art music. Cultural, aesthetic
and music history is
interwoven with singing, movement, musical literacy, and instrument
playing.
This approach begins
by teaching children to sing in tune, combined with extensive
physical movement to develop timing and rhythmic competence. Music
is taught in
a way that requires each child to learn via a variety of modes—kinesthetic,
auditory,
and visual.
Kodály teachers are trained how to carefully analyze each
song that is used in
teaching. From this song analysis, common melodic and rhythmic patterns
emerge, dictating the most appropriate teaching sequence for
musical reading
and writing.
Children learn how to gradually hear and then sight sing standard
musical notation
through the use of these repetitive patterns, thus developing true
musical literacy.
Once children have acquired music-literacy skills, they are then
able to easily apply
this to instrumental study, making such lessons considerably easier
and more
successful.
Research evidence
suggests that Kodály training develops children’s intellectual
abilities beyond music to those needed for the learning of all subjects,
as well as
developing socialization skills.
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