First, the establishment of Kodaly teaching method
Kodaly's friends, colleagues and students help to develop this method by choosing the most interactive and attractive technology, so as to create a method that focuses on musicians' expressiveness and creativity, rather than theory or musical instrument skills.
Kodaly's method, with its folk foundation and the creative combination of movable solfeggio, vocal rhythm, gestures and cooperative practice, 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 principles of Kodaly
Kodály's original method is from the perspective of children's development. In this way, children unconsciously learned the basic musical elements: singing, 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 brought countless benefits to children.
Adult musicians of 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.
3. Similarities and differences with Orff method
Both Kodaly and Orff believe that discovering the inner fun and beauty of music should be the central principle of music education, and music education should be social and ideally rooted in students' traditions and culture.