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Incorporating Singing Activities Into Recorder Instruction
By Erin Rosa

“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading, and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.” - Zoltán Kodály

Most music educators and researchers will agree that instrumental instruction is enhanced by the integration of singing. According to Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, music educator, and ethnomusicologist, the proper foundation for instrumental playing includes developing the ability to hear the music in one’s head by reading it before listening to it and thus, playing it. Believing that a musician should rely on his or her “inner” ear, rather than on his or her “outer” ear to know what the music sounds like, he maintained that the most effective way to develop this skill of inner hearing is to first develop the singing voice. The voice is the most natural instrument that all children possess, and singing enables one to internalize the music more so than exclusively playing instruments.