The main content of Kodaly's music teaching method: Because Kodály focuses on the expressive force and creativity of music (rather than theory or musical instrument skills), it is closely related to music listening training. In fact, it can be regarded as a way to train your ears, because Kodaly mainly develops your musical ears.
First, the creation of Kodaly's teaching method
Friends, colleagues and students in Kodaly help to develop this method by selecting the most interactive and attractive technologies, so as to create a method that focuses on musicians' expressive force and creativity (rather than theory or musical instrument skills).
Kodaly's method, based on its folk foundation, creatively combines the movable "do" solfeggio, vocal rhythm, gestures and cooperative exercises, which can adapt to children's music education all over the world and well supplement the traditional and orthodox music education methods. More and more adults have discovered the great benefits of Kodaly's teaching method.
second, the core principle of Kodaly
the original method pioneered by Kodá ly is from the perspective of children's development. In this way, children unconsciously learn the basic musical elements: solfa, rhythm, gestures, memory development, singing and so on. Because music education has been rooted in the culture into which they are integrated, learning can be carried out in the classroom or at home with their families. Kodaly's early music education has brought countless benefits to children.
Adult musicians at all levels will also find this method very useful, because training starts with simple steps and gradually transitions to more complex exercises with the creation of knowledge base. In this system, the concepts of rhythm, relative pitch and improvisation are universal.
III. Similarities and differences with Orff's method
Both Kodaly and Orff believe that discovering the inherent fun and beauty of music should be the central principle of music education, which should be social and ideally rooted in students' traditions and culture.