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 enlarge | Authors: Micheal Houlahan, Philip Tacka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 126970
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 632
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 2.1
ISBN: 0195314093
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.87
EAN: 9780195314090
ASIN: 0195314093
Publication Date: June 26, 2008
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Kodaly Today: a must-have! August 2, 2008
Kodaly Today is an awesome book! It has everything, like how to plug in your lesson plans, which repertoire to use for each concept taught, and much more. The teaching procedures in this book will guide you to help your students develop musically in more ways than you think. It is a resource that is beautifully organized and a pleasure to read. Whether you see your kids every day or twice a month - every music teacher should have this book, it's amazing. I love it and can't wait to try it this new school year!
Kodaly Today Builds a Strong Foundation for Tomorrow's Musicians July 30, 2008
This is an incredibly valuable resource. As a classically trained pianist and choral singer, and a new K-5 Music Teacher, I have found the Kodaly approach very effective and this book has organized the objectives and strategies beautifully. I highly recommend Kodaly Today!
A necessity for music educators July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kodaly Today fills a large and problematic gap in music education in the United States. Many people graduate from universities knowing the concepts that are to be taught in elementary school, but do not understand how to go about presenting them. With Kodaly Today, we finally have a book that lays out a detailed, sequential, creative, and interesting music curriculum for the elementary level. Teachers are given methods and techniques to use in presenting and practicing new and known material. Gone are the days where the Kodaly classroom used only singing and games. The approach presented in Kodaly Today incorporates the use of instruments (xylophones and unpitched percussions) in the practice portion of the lessons, and allows for a high level of creativity and musicianship to be achieved by both the student and teacher.
Another reviewer referred to Kodaly Today as the "Kodaly Bible" and I wholeheartedly agree. Nowhere else have I seen such a detailed and comprehensive text that gives the music educator everything s/he may ever need to know to be a successful teacher. Kodaly Today has teaching strategies, song lists, monthly plans, philosophy, assessment, listening examples, and the list could go on and on. As a music educator, I am so grateful to have Kodaly Today in my hands, because I will no longer have to search through book after book to find the information or resources I need. It's all in Kodaly Today.
Your best friend to you and your students July 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Have you ever spent money for a book that promisssed to deliver everything to get you through your daily lesson plans, and it didn't? Well here is a book that does get you in the door and on the road to happiness, without unnecessary verbal ramblings. This is your full course menu to successful, sequencial INTERESTING lesson plans. Choose your own side dishes of folk songs and games. Listening lessons are varied from folk songs, to symphonic works and the latest in Jazz recordings. So much research with real teachers went into this masterpiece of a teaching manuel. I have only had mine two weeks, have been teaching over 25 years, and I can not put the book away. So many AHA exciting lesson plans. This book is for you and every teacher young or experienced.
Fabulous July 18, 2008
This is a must for every elementary music teacher. The terminology is clear, the "scripts" foolproof and the logic of the sequence undoubtedly the most logical ever. This is going to transform how much my students can learn. I just wish I'd had something like this when I started teaching.
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