The Role of Kodaly Method in music education

ABSTRACT In my study, in Part 1 which is called The Tools Of Kodâly Method, I have mention about the tools which are used to teach music elements by Kodâly method: Relative solmization, hand signs, rhythm names. Some of these tools are the systems which had been experimented and used in the past and in some aspects which had been changed and improved by Kodâly. Part 2, The Principles Of Kodaly Method, contains the ideas of Kodâly which he had ascertained in order to make music education better and afterwards which they have changed into the principles of the method. In Part 3 which is called The Practice Of Kodâly Method, these subjects takes place: Beginning and spreading of the method in Hungary, the effects of the method on music education structure in Hungary, the order and techniques of the teaching music elements in Hungary and model music lessons of classes from 1st to 11th which I had observed in Kodâly School in Kecskemet in Hungary (Kodâly İskola- Kecskemet- Hungary) in 1999-2000 academic year as the first Turkish student of Kodâly Pedagogical Institute Of Music in Hungary. In Part 4 which is called The Adaptation Of Kodâly Method, I have mention about the matters that are must been care in the course of adaptation of the method, the ways that the countries which have used the method, have followed while they have adapted it and the ways which Turkey should go. Due to the successfulness of Kodâly method is coming from that the method gives solutions to all needs of music education without neglecting any of them, with the aim of explaining the power of completeness I have touched on all ranks of the method. vm