WHEN IS MY CHILD READY TO BEGIN INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS (SUCH AS PITCHED INSTRUMENTS OR THE PIANO)?
“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.” — Zoltan Kodaly Three of the most prominent music educators in history, Kodaly, Carl Orff, and Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, dedicated their life’s work toward a better understanding of music education for young children. Kodaly, a Hungarian educator believed everyone should attain music literacy and singing should be used as the foundation of all music education. Orff, a German educator believed children should first feel music before they understand it. Through active participation, movement, rhythmtic speech or chant, use of percussive instruments, and improvisation, Orff believed children should be creative in their musicianship. Dalcroze, a Swiss educator believed that moving and singing known as Eurhythmics (or “good rhythm” in Greek) along with inner hearing (internalizing music) and Ki
“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.” — Zoltan Kodaly Three of the most prominent music educators in history, Kodaly, Carl Orff, and Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, dedicated their life’s work toward a better understanding of music education for young children. Kodaly, a Hungarian educator believed everyone should attain music literacy and singing should be used as the foundation of all music education. Orff, a German educator believed children should first feel music before they understand it. Through active participation, movement, rhythmtic speech or chant, use of percussive instruments, and improvisation, Orff believed children should be creative in their musicianship. Dalcroze, a Swiss educator believed that moving and singing known as Eurhythmics (or “good rhythm” in Greek) along with inner hearing (internalizing music) and Ki
