Zoltán Kodály - His life and work by László Eősze / English edition of Kodály Zoltán élete és művészete / Collet's Holdings - Corvina Press / Hardcover / Translated by István Farkas, Gyula Gulyás

Hardcover 1962

PAGES: 184

PUBLISHER: Collet's

LANGUAGE: English / Angol

English Description:

Zoltán Kodály (/ˈkoʊdaɪ/; Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, pronounced [ˈkodaːj ˈzoltaːn]; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.

Throughout his adult life, Kodály was very interested in the problems of many types of music education, and he wrote a large amount of material on teaching methods as well as composing plenty of music intended for children's use. Beginning in 1935, along with his colleague Jenő Ádám (14 years his junior), he embarked on a long-term project to reform music teaching in Hungary's lower and middle schools. His work resulted in the publication of several highly influential books.

The Hungarian music education program that developed in the 1940s became the basis for the Kodály Method. Although Kodály himself did not write down a comprehensive method, he did establish a set of principles to follow in music education, and these principles were widely taken up by pedagogues (above all in Hungary, but also in many other countries) after World War II. His practices also have evolved Kodály hand signs.

In the motion picture Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a visual learning aid distributed to members of a conference of ufologists was named the Kodály Method and referenced musical notes as hand signals.

Table of Contents:

Preface .........................................................7

KODALY’S LIFE
The Years of Preparation (1882-1905) ............. 11
The Years of Hardship (1905-1922) ............... 16
The Great Creative Period (1923-1939) ............. 28
The Educator of his People (1940-1960) ............ 39

THE MUSICOLOGIST
Scholar and Folklorist ............................. 47
The Music Critic ..................................... 60

THE TEACHER
Professor of Composition ........................ 66
Teacher of Youth .................................... 69
Music Belongs to Everybody .................... 81

THE COMPOSER
Introduction ......... ........................................ 88
Chamber Music and Orchestral Works ............. 101
Songs and Choral Works ................................ 126
Music for the Stage ........................... 149
Choral Works with Orchestra .................... 156

BY WAY OF EPILOGUE ........................ 167
Notes  169
Appendices  174
Index  179