ABOUT
Welcome to the website of the Kodály Society of Ontario!
Making music is an essential component of a child's life. One has only to reflect on past music classes, concerts, assemblies and impromptu singing sessions to be reminded of the delight, emotional satisfaction and the pure pleasure children derive from joyous music making. As teachers of music, it is our mission to provide our students with many opportunities for engagement in quality music experiences.
We invite you into the joyful music making community that is the Kodály Society of Ontario.
Core Beliefs
Founded in 1985, the Kodaly Society of Ontario is a group of music educators dedicated to assisting teachers to teach music in the classroom. Our philosophy of music education comes from the Hungarian ethnomusicologist Zoltan Kodaly who believed that:
True musical literacy (the ability to read, write and think music) is the right of every person.
To be internalized musical learning must begin with the child's own natural instrument- the voice.
An early start is essential, begin training at the earliest possible moment.
The folk music of a child's cultural heritage (the musical mother tongue) is the best material to teach the skills and concepts necessary for musical literacy
Only music of the highest artistic quality is to be used in the education of children.
Music education is necessary for the development of the total person (music should be at the core of the curriculum (affective, cognitive, psychomotor).
Music education of children rests in the hand of their instructors, therefore they must be the best possible musician-educators.