Kodaly music seminar

Music teachers, scholars and choral conductors from all continents but Africa have arrived in Kecskemet, C Hungary, to attend the 25th Kodaly music seminar and festival, an organiser told MTI on Sunday.

The three-week course, named after eminent 20th-century composer and music teacher Zoltan Kodaly, will start on July 20. It will be attended by nearly 120 participants from almost all European nations and Japan, Australia, the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, Canada and Brazil, Laura Keri of the Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music said.

Kodaly not only collected folk songs - an undertaking that brought him together with his contemporary Bela Bartok - but also developed various techniques for teaching music to young children; techniques which he formulated into a method that became widespread throughout Hungary under his guidance.

Kodaly incorporated many of his own compositions and collected folk-songs into his teaching materials, particularly for the training of choirs.

The daily sessions will be followed by concerts of choirs and orchestras in the evenings.

The first international music seminar was organised three years after Kodaly's death, in 1970 in Kecskemet, his native town.

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Llibre

The Kodály method I : comprehensive music education
Choksy, Lois

CONTINGUTS:

Chapter 1. The beginnnings of the Method in Hungary and Its International Spread.

Chapter 2. The method: its sequence, tools, materials, and philosophy.

Chapter 3. Kodály for north american schools: Preschool and grade one.

Chapter 4. Kodály for north american schools: grade two.

Chapter 5. Kodály for north american schools: grade three.

Chapter 6. Kodály for north american schools: grade four.

Chapter 7. Kodály for north american schools: grades five and six.

Chapter 7. Kodály for north american schools: grades five and six.

Chapter 8. Planning for musical learning in north american schools.

Chapter 9. The songs.

International Kodaly Society

The International Kodály Society is active in 34 countries and has Affiliated National Organizations in 16 countries. It was founded in 1975 in Kecskemét, Hungary. Its purpose is the world-wide propagation of the musical, educational and cultural concepts associated with Zoltán Kodály for the benefit of music generally and in particular for the educational advancement of youth.The Society serves as an international forum for all who are active in the spirit of the Hungarian master as composer, scholar and educator.




"It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain". (Zoltán Kodály)

http://www.iks.hu/

Kodály

Sobre la pedagogia Kodály hem de dir que el seu veritable esperit i abast són poc coneguts: és més que un simple mètode; és una filosofia que aposta per la transmissió dels valors humans.
D'altra banda, és una pedagogia que abasta tots els nivells fins al Grau Superior. És prou flexible i obert com perquè hi càpiga la iniciativa pròpia del professor.
Vull subratllar que son els principis fonamentals de la pedagogia Kodály els que em guien el meu treball docent en la Formació del Professorat i a l’escola i en línies generals són aquests:
-els coneixements musicals s’han de conèixer per descoberta auditiva
-el mitjà fonamental de la formació auditiva és la veu
-el material de l'ensenyament musical ha de ser d'alta qualitat, han de ser obres de la literatura musical que durant el curs de la història han demostrat que representen valors eterns 

-fins l'exercici més senzill ha d'estar ben seqüenciat.