Kodály Summer Institute 2020

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. 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.

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

Kodály Summer Institute does not have any additional audition requirements, however there are program specific questions asked that are required by the program directors. These questions will be completed within the GetAcceptd application. 

Please note: You must have your application number available in order to successfully begin the audition submission step (provided when completing the online application - step 1).

Weekend and Evening Activities

New York City offers an exciting field to observe living traditional (folk) music and culture. Kodály students are invited to attend evening and weekend activities that explore various cultural scenes. Past field trips have included visits to an Irish pub to listen to a seisiún and to Brighton Beach to sample the Russian American experience—activities that situate traditional (folk) studies among living New Yorkers of the twenty-first century.

• Two evening workshops in making materials for the Kodály-inspired classroom: Poppo Shoppe, a workshop to build a puppet in a cone to be used for audiation (inner hearing) with young students; Feltboard Workshop, a workshop to build a feltboard, used to teach music literacy to students.
• The Annual Lecture Based on Kodály-Inspired Curriculum and Pedagogy.
• Kodály Cafe–Lunchtime video reviews of Kodály-inspired lessons.
• An afternoon in Chinatown to have dim sum.
• Picnic in Washington Square Park.
• Dinner in the Meat Packing District, a walk on the Highline, and a trip to the new Whitney Museum of American Art.
• An evening at an Irish pub to enjoy an Irish seisiún.
• Closing Concert and Banquet.