1. Kodaly's teaching method emphasizes students' experience of music, and practice is an important way to get real experience. As Kodaly said, "Only practice can make people truly understand and appreciate music. Just listening to music is not enough. " Only when children actively participate in music practice activities can they gain music experience.
2. Sing. An important feature of Kodaly's music education system is that singing is the means of music education. Singing is an instrument that everyone has, and anyone can participate in singing, so it is feasible to popularize music education; At the same time, singing can give people the most direct and true musical experience; Singing training has rich learning contents, such as intonation, rhythm, speed, musical expression, musical form analysis and harmony function, which can all play an effective role in cultivating students' comprehensive musical ability. If a child learns to sing before learning instrumental music, it will be of great help to his instrumental music learning.
Kodaly pays special attention to chorus in singing teaching. In chorus, students learn to listen to each other, form the concept of cooperation with others, enhance the sense of team, and then cultivate their sense of personal responsibility. Chorus lessons also make them accustomed to paying attention to command, which is also very useful for cultivating children's attention and discipline.
In particular, in Kodaly's singing teaching, it is emphasized to use instrumental music as little as possible. When singing, if instrumental music is accompanied continuously, students will rely on instrumental music because of the guidance of instrumental music, and no longer pay attention to their own voice and intonation consciously. In the long run, when students sing without accompaniment, their intonation will be problematic, and their sensitivity to music will gradually weaken, and singing will become a simple mechanical movement.
3. Hearing training. To get children into music, it is necessary to cultivate their music reading and writing ability and master the basic knowledge of music. If you don't learn the elements of music, you can't understand music. The teaching of reading and writing needs to be carried out through hearing and singing training. Having a good sense of hearing is the basis of music memory, which will promote the understanding of music, because all music understanding and performance need the guidance of hearing.
4. the relative relation method, also known as the first tone method. In the first-tone roll-call method, Do can be moved and changed, but the tone level has a fixed roll-call, which is simply moving Do.
There are three advantages in using the first-tone roll-call method in teaching: First, it exercises a fixed interval. For example, in C major, the interval relationship between Do and Mi in Grade 1 and Grade 3 is 3 degrees larger. In G major, Sol and Ti in Grade 1 and Grade 3 have to sing Do and Mi because of their fixed mode level, so their interval relationship is 3 degrees larger. Secondly, exercise the fixed function. It is also because of the fixed relationship between the tone levels, so no matter in that tone, seeing level 1 is the master, seeing level 4 is the subordinate, seeing level 5 is the genus, and so on. Third, it is easy to read the music (read the music) and improve the accuracy of solfeggio. For professional music learners, the first-tone roll-call method can simplify key signature's scores, speed up solfeggio and improve accuracy. For non-professionals and children, it can help them learn to read music quickly.
5. rhythm training. Rhythm plays an important role in music. It is the skeleton of melody, and it can even form sentence patterns and structures by itself. The ability of hearing and music can be developed through rhythm training. The use of rhythm names makes the rhythm duration "symbolic" and readable, and strengthens students' impression of rhythm through oral reading and hand clapping during training. With the training form of single voice and multi-voice in teaching, students will not find rhythm training boring.