Ever since I stumbled across the Kodály approach, as a young class teacher who believed firmly that she was not musical, I have been drawn to these words by Zoltán Kodály: ‘A good musician may be summarised as follows: A well-trained ear, a well-trained intelligence, a well-trained heart and a well-trained hand. All four must develop together in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong.’
I think many, upon reading this, will consider that their initial training was quite heavily weighted towards the last of these, the hand. I was certainly one of these students.
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