What is the Kodaly Method?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010The Kodaly Method, which is also known as the Kodaly Concept, is an approach to music education, developed in Hungary during the mid 20th century. It was named after the Hungarian educator and composer Zoltan Kodaly. Though the method is named after him, it wasn’t actually created by him.
The Kodaly concept of music uses a [...]
Learning Music for Music’s Sake
Sunday, March 28th, 2010There has been a lot of discussion around the Music Education community recently about the benefits of music education for children.
There is a lot of talk about the “Mozart Effect” where the listening to certain types of classical music are shown to have benefits in ordering the brain and thus improving intelligence.
Some have found this [...]
Learning Music Theory in the 21st century
Friday, March 12th, 2010At its core, Music Theory is the study of the written manuscript. It is the understanding of the symbols that make up music scores, and the knowledge of how to effectively turn them into sounds.
An knowledge of music theory assists musicians, not because it makes them play better, but because it helps them communicate better [...]
How and how not to help your students with music theory
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010At its core, Music Theory is the study of the written manuscript. It is the knowledge of the symbols that make up written music, and the knowledge of how to effectively turn them into sounds.
An knowledge of music theory really helps musicians, rather than making them play better, it assists them to speak the same [...]
How to write a lesson plan for music
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010A critical part of a music teachers week is preparing lesson plans They are critical to the success of one lesson, and the whole terms lessons, and the teachers life in general.
There is nothing like the old saying “If you don’t prepare, then prepare to fail”. However, once you are a little more experienced then [...]
Some Effective Methods of Teaching Music Theory
Monday, March 8th, 2010At its core, Music Theory is the understanding of the written manuscript. It is the knowledge of the symbols that make up music scores, and the knowledge of how to effectively translate them into sounds.
An understanding of music theory assists people who play music, rather than making them play better, it assists them to speak [...]
Music Games – are they educational?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Parents and teachers are constantly thinking about this: When does a computer game become education, and when is it just entertainment?
Are those games really worth spending our hard earned money, time and energy on?
In Music there are all kinds of games: Some of the music games which are available today are nothing more than an [...]
Tools for a trouble free life for music teachers
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Music Teachers have a very busy schedule. Possibly music teachers have the busiest life of all teachers
Of course, many would disagree with that statement. Maths, Science and History teachers of course work very hard and no-one would say they don’t work extremely hard to bring excellent lessons to their students.
Music Teachers however have to do [...]