Course description
This course focuses on gaining further knowledge and practice in musicianship according to the Kodály approach. It will take your solfa skills to a higher level with the aim of making it second nature. Each musical element is approached in many ways and from different angles, presented and practiced in a variety of musical contexts.
Apart from the knowledge and practice that you gain, you will also achieve a thorough understanding and a wider perspective of the ways this excellent approach works.
The course is interactive and run in an enjoyable manner, with challenging tasks and games, using valuable musical material. These, together with a short quiz at the end of each session will help you evaluate your newly gained knowledge and skills.
Who will benefit from this course?
Musicians and music teachers who wish to hone their musicianship skill training and a way of learning/teaching music theory that is not arduous and boring, Kodály fans wishing to take the next step in the ins and outs of the Kodály Approach, and anyone who would like to pry the door further ajar to music literacy.
This course is a direct follow-up to Introduction to the Kodály Approach via Practical Musicianship and a recommended prelude to the more advanced "Kodály Musicianship - Intermediate Course 1". (Therefore the courses can be purchased either separately or combined.)
Course details
Once purchased, the course can be watched unlimited times and for an unlimited time period, it's yours to keep!
The course comprises 5 video lessons (around 50 minutes each) with attached detailed learning objectives and outcomes, plus downloadable handout note sheets, solutions to written tasks given in the video lesson and a task sheet for further practice in some of the lessons. A short quiz at the end of each lesson helps evaluate your newly gained skills and knowledge.
The sessions build on one another, and therefore progress from one to the next requires watching the video lesson and passing the short quiz at the end with a pass grade of at least 50% (this can be re-taken as many times as needed).
A personalized "Certificate of Assessed Completion" for 5 hours of study will be issued immediately on successful completion of all five sessions.
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Course Curriculum
Kodály Musicianship - Elementary Level
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- Session 1: Working our way to fluent solfa with the 'do' pentatonic scale. The concept of time signature (49:14)
- Session 2: Do pentachord, new melodic and rhythmic elements, intervals, letter names , treble clef, the concept of staff notation (50:18)
- Session 3: The Diatonic Major - 'do' scale (60:56)
- Session 4: The 'la' minor pentachord (54:16)
- Session 5: Summary (50:12)
Esther Hargittai M.A. (Choir Conducting and Music Education, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest)