KODALY-2 method of TEACHING MUSUC AND ARTS

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1. KODÁLY METHOD Teaching Music in Elementary Grades

2. Kodály Method Proponent: Zoltán Kodály Foundation: The voice is the primary instrument. Singing is the foundation of musical learning. Philosophy: Everyone has the right to musical literacy, thus music education must commerce with with children. Methodology: Solfège Hand sings, Musical Shorthand Notation, and Rhythm Solmization ( Tabuena , 2020)

3. ZoltÁN KODÁLY Zoltan Kodaly was a Hungarian folk music composer, ethnologist, pedagogue, linguist and philosopher. The founder of Kodaly Method. An educator, through his students, he contributed heavily to the spread of music education in Hungary. Born: December 16, 1882 Death: March 6, 1967

4. Kodaly’s Philosophy and Goals Kodaly was a firm believer in the importance of heritage and culture in one’s music education; he asserted that there was no better music than that of a child’s culture to teach children basic musical literacy. Kodaly believed discovering the innate pleasure and beauty of music should be a central tenet of musical education, and that music education should be social, ideally, rooted in students’ heritage and culture. To this end, the system he developed integrated the singing of folk songs in the pupils’ mother tongue. Kodaly is vocally-oriented with goals of sight-reading and sight-singing.

5. Development and implementation of KODALY METHOD The method evolved as Kodály realized the benefit of teaching musical abilities to students through the medium of folk music, which they had been exposed to from childhood. He believed he could teach musical literacy and ear training to his students using sight-singing, solfège, and lyrics in their native language. Kodály settled on a social, kinesthetic approach to music that could be used in both a primary school and a conservatory as he refined his teaching methods. Kodály's concepts became part of the official curriculum of Hungarian schools in 1945, and music primary schools that taught the Kodály method proliferated quickly over the next decade. In the years thereafter, Kodály's method of teaching music has acquired international acclaim and a devoted following.

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7. The central principles of kodály 1. Music should be taught from a young age. Kodaly believed that music was among if not the most important subject to teach in schools. 2. Music school should be taught in a logical and sequential manner. 3. There should be a pleasure in learning music; learning should not be torturous. 4. The voice is the most accessible, universal instrument. 5. The musical material is taught in the context of the mother-tongue folk song.

8. Methodology 1. Learning by singing: According to Kodály , the human voice is the fundamental instrument, and it should be central to musical training. Students should gain musical literacy through sung solfège (also known as solfa), using a moveable-do system. - Movable do Solfa- is a system for relative pitch ear training (i.e. recognizing and following the pitch of notes) which assigns a spoken syllable to each note in the scale. By using the solfege to teach the pitch side of musical listening and performance skills, the Kodaly approach ensures that musicians have a natural and instinctive understanding of the notes they hear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0qFMkpXd2o&t=208s

9. 2. Hand signs: Solfège and sight-singing can be supplemented by hand signs, as developed by the English pedagogue John Curwen, who was an influence on Kodály . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XfX0O5tcs 3. Rhythmic proficiency: The sight-reading of rhythmic patterns (including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and various tuplets ) must be taught alongside tonal solfège. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDlODwXsvyw

10. 4 . Collaboration: Kodály believed that creativity and collaboration are essential to a musical education and can be brought out in group music lessons. Music students should collaborate with one another in exercises ranging from clapping to choral singing to instrumental accompaniment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyly2qDoryI 5. Cultural connections: Music instructors should emphasize folk music (even pop songs) in a student's mother tongue to create a visceral connection to music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwHGSOlRKI