KODALY METHOD

• Zoltan Kodaly

  • Born on December 16, 1882
  • Died on March 06, 1967
  • Prominent composer and authority in Budapest in the year 1902
  • Became a teacher of theory and composition in the Budapest of Music (1907-1941)
• Zoltan Kodaly

  • Started to collect folk songs systematically by going to rural areas and recording the music on their crude phonograph in the year 1905
  • Collected over 3000 folk songs in 1913. This collection, transcriptions, and analyses, were important in establishing the techniques of ethnomusicology, which was to become a 20th-century discipline
• Zoltan Kodaly

  • Was considered as one of the national hero in terms and due to his contributions in the development of music
  • Dedicated 33 years of his life in teaching music
• Psalmus Hungaricus

  • Published in 1923
  • First composition to gain world fame
  • A large coral and instrumental work, commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the joining of Buda and Pest
• Budapest

  • 3 merging cities
  • Merged in the year 1873
  • Buda, western
  • Pest, eastern
  • Budapest, central
• Kodaly method

  • Developed by Zoltan Kodaly
  • Comprehensive approach to music education
  • Designed to teach music literacy, which is the ability to read, hear, understand, and play music
  • Designed to teach aura skills, and a love for music, specifically in the context of early childhood education
• Kodaly Hand Signs

  • Approach to music education
  • Developed in Hungary during the mid-20th century
• Key principles of kodaly method

  1. Vocal approach to music literacy; ability to read, hear, and think music
  2. Music belongs to everyone
• Introduction in early childhood, introduction to folk/art

  1. Singing by note before reading and notating, content and sequence of curriculum come from childhood musical development and literature
  2. Focuses on solfege signals and rhythm syllables
  3. Very systematic approach which results in early musical literacy
• Solfege


  Corresponding solfa syllable in Kodaly hand signs
• Kodaly Sequence of Learning

  1. Rhythm
  2. Singing
  3. Instrumental
• Kodaly methodology

  • Use of pentatonic folk songs to introduce singing
  • Use of "tonic solfa" approach (solfege) to introduce sight-singing and use of solfege hand signs
• Compositions of zoltan kodaly

  • Summer evening (1906)
  • Dances of Galanta (1993)
  • Intermezzo for string trio (1905)
  • Five tantrum ergo (1928)