Let’s Play Music ®

• Curriculum Foundation
  Zoltan Kodaly, Emile Jacques-Dalcroze and Carl Orff
  
  

In the early part of the 20th century, three educators/composers became known as the specialists in Music Education. Let’s Play Music embraces and utilizes much of these specialists’ philosophies and techniques.

• Kodaly:
  • Solfeggio syllables and hand signs
  • Folksongs and circle games
  • Solfeggio ‘patterning’ to aid inner hearing
  • The ‘flexible staff’
  • Movable DO
• Dalcroze:
  • Rhythmic understanding through full body movement
  • Feel the steady beat first
• Orff:
  • Use of the body as the first instrument
  • Use of percussion instruments
  • Use of barred melody instruments (xylophone, glockenspiel)