International Colourstrings Symposium and
Teacher Training Course
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The Colourstrings approach to music teaching created by Csaba and Géza Szilvay is based on Zoltán Kodály's principles. "Colourstrings" means 'child-centred music teaching'. The philosophy and method does not form or mould the child to the need of the instrument (as conventional methods do) but rather 'domesticates' the instrument and the instrumental teaching to meet the child's need. Within Colourstrings, Little Rascals, Singing Rascals, and Instrumental Tutors form a three-step unit where musical education starts at a tender age and develops uninterruptedly in an ever-increasing way. With the help of the basic "Rascals" repertoire (melodies and rhythms), the child is introduced to musical, technical, intellectual, and aesthetic notions. The subconscious acquaintance with these will develop into semi-consciousness and eventually into a complete musical understanding. During the Colourstrings education, the Rascals repertoire will always appear in a new guise: to be sung, clapped, played as a game, played on an instrument, and as a solo, early-chamber music or an orchestral piece. The Colourstrings unit can be quite naturally disjoined into individual books and recordings, and they will still function independently as well. But if the three phases - Little Rascals, Singing Rascals, and Instrumental Rascals - are used after each other, then their effectiveness is multiplied. This will enormously deepen and facilitate the music teaching, through which will be created a balanced and happy child-parent-teacher triangle. In the course of the years the Colourstrings method has been introduced in more than one hundred international congresses and symposia. Nowadays there are Colourstrings teachers all over the world. Colourstrings belongs to the curriculum of numerous conservatories and music academies, and several academic theses have been made on this subject in Europe, America and Australia. List
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