Help: Kadaly method

Subject: Kadaly method
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:08 PM

I have just attended a days course based on the Kadaly method of teaching music to children and wondered if anyone had had any experience of using it or could refer me to more information

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:13 PM

My voice teacher used it and taught it but we have lost touch. Try a search online using this spelling: [KODALY].

It seems similar to Sacred Harp shape-note singing too; you might ask Mudcatter Burke about their relationship.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Kodaly method
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:35 PM

Yes it seems that I did get the spelling wrong and have now come accross one or two sites that might be useful. I would still like to hear from anyone who has used it particularly with KS1 children(5-7)

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:01 PM

Hi, Mrs. Duck-
I use a modified version of the Kodaly method all the time with ages 5-11. It works well to develop what I call "musical ears" and is developmentally sequenced (sorry for the teacher-speak) in a step-by-step manner. It teaches musical literacy slowly and gradually, with appealing songs and games. I haven't tried it with children younger than our kindergarten, and am really only now, 2/3 through the year, beginning to apply real Kodaly principals to the youngest children. But it can be done, I think. There are 2 classic books, "The Kodaly Method" and "The Kodaly Context" (dunno the authors) which lay out the whole program with song examples, lesson plans, and so forth. It's worth trying on the wee ones! Let us know how it goes!

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: Bernard
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:36 PM

Have a dekko at this thread!

The subject was raised there by... guess who?!

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 04:11 PM

Thanks Bernard if only my spelling was better I'd have found it straight away!!

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: Kaleea
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:33 PM

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for, but I was taught the Kodaly method in Music Ed classes in college. It was used at one time by many Music Educators. I remember some of my Music Teachers in grade school (I went to 6 different schools during K-6) doing that "thing with the hands" while we were singing. When I taught, I had good response with it with young kids. In fact I was taught to look directly in the child's right eye and sing to them with no accompianiment "so mi so mi" often in the initial weeks of K & 1st grade. Then gradually add the hand signs and widen the melodic phrases such as "so mi so mi so mi-la so mi" and etc. Then of course there are many singing games where the children may bandy the pitch about. This, however, is often too boring for the 2nd & 3rd graders who are used to action films with constant scenes of heavy artillery, etc. So using Kodaly with the very young is still a good way to teach good pitch-one can even use this with piano students & other private lesson students to assist them in following the melody where it skips or steps. I have also used Kodaly with Church choirs -adult & children over the years as a means to assist. When one visualizes the melody it helps to internalize it. Thus: _ _ _ -- _ _ _ get the picture? Hope it helps?

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From: Bernard
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 04:45 PM

Just remembered!

It made an appearance in the movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'!!

Subject: RE: Help: Kadaly method
From:
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 03:01 PM

Dear Mrs. Duck, I don't know where you are writing from, but here in Great Britain, kodály method is very much alive. There is a British Kodály Academy and there are courses run at various locations around the country. WEBSITE: www.britishkodalyac.demon.co.uk All the best, David.