Parkside School
Bilingual Pre-school and Kindergarten
Music
Early music education means that already our little children learn to make music and to sing. With our own ukuleles also small hands can play an instrument and enjoy to perform music. Zoltán Kodály is with Bela Bartok one of the most well-known Hungarian composers of the twentieth century. He was born on 16th December 1882 in Kecskemet and died on 6th March 1967 in Budapest.
He conceived his life-task as one of integration Hungarian cultural traditions in his music. This music development had already taken place quite naturally in countries such as Germany, Italy and France.
The Kodály Method is a holistic learning method to advance early music education in the following areas:
- Rhythm.
- Performing, listening to and analyzing great works of world music.
- Making of musical skills including the reading and writing of music, sing and partial singing.
- Improvisation and composition using individual musical vocabulary at each stage of development.