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The NYU Steinhardt Kodály Summer Institute is open to students as a noncredit summer course. Students may also take the course for 3 graduate credits (different application process. Email mpap.summer@nyu.edu for more info). Students who enroll in the summer master's degree program may take all three levels of the NYU Steinhardt Kodály Summer Institute toward fulfillment of degree requirements, ending with both a master's degree in Music Education and Kodály certification (contact Dr. Jason Thompson, Director of Music Education, jdt9583@nyu.edu).
The Kodály Summer Institute is endorsed by the Organization of American Kodály Educators.
The Kodály Summer Institute serves both graduate musicians-educators and those who have worked in the field—all who would like to enrich their skills in creating curriculum and delivering pedagogy in a Kodály-inspired music classroom. Participants experience and collect traditional (folk) materials that can be sequenced with the intention of leading their young music makers toward the goals of music literacy and musical understanding. Course work includes:
- Levels 1, 2, and 3; one level each for three summers
- Noncredit or 3 graduate credits available for each level
- Preschool through secondary school methodology
- Ear training using movable tonic solfege
- Vocal skills for children, adolescents, and adults
- Choral ensemble
- Choral conducting
- Materials and skills for starting a chorus at elementary and middle school levels
- Traditional (folk) materials and research
- Movement through singing games
- Extending Kodály to the recorder
Audition Requirements
The Kodály Summer Institute does not have any audition requirements, however, there are program-specific questions that you will need to complete within the online application.
Kodály Summer Institute Faculty
Kodály and Music Education
Following his folk song collecting with Béla Bartók in Hungary in the early 1900s, Zoltán Kodály had a vision—a monumental idea that music, like language, could be taught artistically using the authentic traditional (folk) materials of any given culture.
Course Descriptions
New York University remains the only campus in metropolitan New York offering Kodály certification on a noncredit and graduate credit basis.
Contact Us
Music Education
Music.Education@nyu.edu
Academic Content
Dr. Jerry Kerlin
Kodály Summer Institute, Director
212 998 5774
jerry.kerlin@nyu.edu