The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end,… - Zoltan Kodaly
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end,…
- Zoltan Kodaly
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nou… - Zoltan Kodaly
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nou…
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same - Zoltan Kodaly
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values. - Zoltan Kodaly
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music. - Zoltan Kodaly
There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. - Zoltan Kodaly
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in … - Zoltan Kodaly
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in …
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whethe… - Zoltan Kodaly
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whethe…
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. - Zoltan Kodaly
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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