Teaching of Polyphony, Harmony and Form in Elementary School [antikvár]

Foreword The precept that school music should take its beginning in making each nation acquainted with its own "musical mother-tongue", with each nation continuing to applaud its own folklore traditions as a representative identity nationally, is today incontrovertibly recognized by music pedagogues aU over the world as basic pillar of Zoltán Kodály's educational concept. Kodály's principles of music education, which are today widely known around the globe, serve as the basis for the practice of music education in many countries. What can possibly account for the fact that, beginning in the 1960s, international music pedagogy turned its attention with such discernment toward ÍHungarian music education? In all certainty it is simply that, following Kodály's initiative, there crystallized, in the work of his colleagues and students, a particularly ordered process of instruction which, according to universal musical, educational and pedagogic principles, leads the growing child into the world of artistic music. This process, based upon active participation and firm understanding, results in a lifelong tie to the arts in general. This tie is moreover undeniably necessary for our present lives. In our educational system, musical training is indispensibly linked to the development of human sensitivity, and of the ability to react to others.