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A PsAlmus HumAnus művészetpedagógiai egyesület
megalapítása és tevékenysége

1 Day: March 6, 2004, Nádor Hall
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Katalin K. Udvari
Music teacher,
Leader of the Psalmus Humanus
art-educational programme

Psalmus Humanus Art Educational Programme –
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a Means of Implementing Kodály’s Concepts in the 21 Century
We planned to organize this conference with the title ’Integrated Art Education at
School and in the Family’ and chose for its motto the well-known words of Kodály:
„Music belongs to everyone! But how can we make it so?” Our art educational asso-
ciation, representing a large domain of art education, has been working in the spirit
of this charge for over six years so far.
How did this art educational research start?
It was a competition announced in the memory of Zoltán Kodály in 1998 which
turned my attention to primaries with a specialized curriculum including daily mu-
sic or singing classes. The question I walked around and wanted to reflect upon
from multiples point of view was:
„Can Kodály’s concept on musical education meet the social and educational
challenges of our time?”

As a music school teacher of instrumental music, I have been asked several times
over the past few years why I have been concerned with Kodály’s method of teaching
music and singing, for it is the responsibility of teachers of singing, choral conduc-
tors and musicologists. I examined only a narrow strip of art pedagogy, the activity
and influence of music primary schools. As I had the chance to have been one of the
25 pupils of the very first primary school of music and singing, I did not feel that it
was out of my competence to deal with this issue.
I made up a study for the above mentioned competition with the original idea to
honour the 50 anniversary of my school, and still later this study was extended
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and edited into a book with the title The Psalmus Humanus Music Primary school
of Kecskemét, 1950.
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