By Marissa Young
Graduate students began their second week of intensive music training Monday, June 17, through InterMuse, a two-week concentrated course on music education.
InterMuse began its eighth year of courses at BYU last Monday.
The concepts of music education are based on Zoltan Kodaly (pronounced kO-DYE), a twentieth-century Hungarian composer, educator, and humanitarian.
According to his biography, Kodaly said he believed ''music is for everyone'' and all people are inherently musical.
InterMuse and similar training programs nationwide incorporate Kodaly''s concept of 'music is for everyone.'
Kod?ly did much to bridge the gap between Hungarian folk music and the European art music tradition - which in turn bridged the Hungarian upper class and the peasants, according to his biography.
'Kodaly''s music, though not regarded highly by professional musicians and the upper class that made up the concert audiences in his time, has inspired music education of today,' said Jerry Jaccard, professsor of music at BYU.
Several universities throughout the U.S. provide Kodaly education courses, according to the Organization of American Kodaly Educators.
OAKE was founded in 1973 in an effort to improve music education in schools.
Kodaly education incorporates 'discovery' learning, in which everything is linked to what the students already know, said Sandra Mathias, director of Kodaly Institute at Capital University in Ohio and President of OAKE.
For example, when teaching a whole note, which has four counts, a student counts four heartbeats found in a song using whole notes, Mathias said.
'Kodaly incorporates physical, visual, and oral activities that help children experience a particular idea,' Mathias said.
InterMuse at BYU is designed for entry level to advanced musicians who want to have a positive impact on music education.
Enrolled graduate students receive graduate level credit for their coursework in the two-week program.