The Research For The Application Of Kodály's Musical Teaching Method About Musical Education Aiming At Children In Rural Areas

Music is a special language of human being. Giving timely musical education to children in their childhood can be helpful with their vocabulary study, enrich their language of arts, reinforce their pleasure in musical activity, accelerate their physical and mental health; can cultivate and improve their ability of speech and appreciation for music. It is also a key method for their grow-up in all sides.Quality education aims at every student. However, because of unbalance in economy, culture and education, children, especially those in rural areas of northwest China, unlike their counterparts in cities, can hardly timely receive systematic; musical education. Musical education in those areas is a blank page. Because of their age, generally speaking, children must study in the accompaniment of their parents, also they need tutoring after class. If a child wants to study music, the expenditure on their instruments is also considerable to their parents, so is the case in kindergarten; to offer musical education to children, teachers with musical training and skill are also essential. So, at present, there is much difficulty offering musical education to children in under-developed rural areas; however, in view to the importance of musical education in a child's process of grow-up and development, we must offer this kind of education to them. From above, we can draw a conclusion: reinforcing the research for musical education in rural areas is very importantKodaly Zoltan was a very famous Hungarian musical educationalist, composer and folk music theorist, his theory of musical course inherited the theory and value of Hungarian folk music, established the tropism of musical in its aesthetical value, its national value, and humanism value, which has the following characteristics: 1. Backing to musical origin; 2. Mastering the musical mother tongue; 3. Emphasizing basic training; 4. Developing the musical ability; 5. Cultivating musicians meanwhile audiences; 6. Rescuing people living in mechanization ageKodaly's musical teaching method was essential part of his educational theory Exactly, it had the following characteristics: flexible implication of musical teaching method and taking advantage from it; the implication of material and visual teaching method; paying attention to the ability of "reading" and "writing" in music; taking the singing as the base of musical education The aim of his theory is that music belongs to every child.After study of Kodaly's theory of musical course and musical teaching method, we can see that his theory of musical education can be implied in the course of musical education in rural areas in northwest China. We can use his theory as reference in the process of improving children's musical quality and appreciation collectively. Our research aims at providing a sample for children's musical education in rural areas of northwest China.