What is Colourstrings?
"Colourstrings is a family-centred and a child-centred educational philosophy, programme and technique which, with the help of music, desires to strengthen a happy childhood." - Dr. Geza Szilvay, founder of Colourstrings
Colourstrings is a world-renowned approach to music education. It was developed as a method of strings-teaching in Finland in the 1970s by Dr Geza Szilvay, a Hungarian-born violinist, and called 'Colourstrings' as it uses a visual approach (changing the colours of the music stave). This then led to the development of the Colourstrings Music Kindergarten, a singing and movement-based method of teaching young children music, which is used worldwide today.
Colourstrings music education is based on the principles of Zoltán Kodály, a Hungarian composer, educator and ethnomusicologist who developed a systematic approach to music learning through singing and folksong. Kodály believed that children should learn the fundamental elements of music through singing games and rhymes, before learning an instrument.
Colourstrings music education is based on the principles of Zoltán Kodály, a Hungarian composer, educator and ethnomusicologist who developed a systematic approach to music learning through singing and folksong. Kodály believed that children should learn the fundamental elements of music through singing games and rhymes, before learning an instrument.
What makes Colourstrings different?
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