The Kodály Concept. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.oake.org/about-us/the-kodaly-concept/. I am reflecting on a reading about Kodály that I had just read for my elementary methods class. This is a technique to help students connect to music and enjoy it through folk songs and solfege. This method was designed to enrich the lives of those who participate in it. It helps students also work towards producing their product of music on their own so they can feel fully accomplished and developed by the end of the lessons. Zoltan Kodály is a Hungarian composer/polosphere who had a connection with folk music who invented the Kodály method. Some practical uses for this method would be games based on repeating solfege based games. This would also include some games that have students take folk music and perform it in small groups with each other incorporating different musical aspects. Some challenges is that since this is folk music that is based on other countries sometimes you might be lacking context for the lesson. This might also result in the topic being highly inappropriate for the class. This also mostly is based around western notation so learning music of non-western traditional culture might be difficult. The issues with finding a folk song that might be offensive results in possibly altering some aspects of the tune. This being if possible, I would mostly recommend you just find a new song. If we were to adapt a folk song, I would start with the lyrics. Changing just the troubled lyrics can be difficult because it still is almost exactly recognizable. Other than overhauling the lyrics I would recommend adding other harmonies or even altering some of the chords a bit. This runs into another issue of can the class do harmony read the new chords. Those are some of the first points I would recommend approaching when meeting this issue.
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