Master of Music in Music Education - Kodály Emphasis

Kodály Summer Graduate Music Program at Lakeland University

The Kodály Summer Graduate Music Program is designed for elementary, secondary, and independent music teachers who are seeking to grow their pedagogical, personal musicianship, and research skills. The program faculty are leaders in the field of music education and provide an experience that is joyful, supportive, and immensely meaningful.

The Kodály Summer Graduate Music program is efficient and is designed to complement the busy schedules of working music educators. Music educators can earn their Master of Music in Music Education – Kodály Emphasis degree in four summers, including an intensive two-week summer residency each summer, with limited online coursework throughout the academic year. Within the 34-credit program, students will also earn an OAKE endorsed Kodály Certificate. Most program participants work full or part-time during the academic year and immediately apply what they learn in the program to their teaching.

Graduate students also have the option to complete their OAKE endorsed Kodály Certificate in just three summers. This program takes place exclusively during a two-week summer residency for three summers and is 20 credits. Scholarships are available for graduate students in the Master of Music in Music Education – Kodály Emphasis degree and OAKE endorsed Kodály Certificate programs.

A variety of workshop courses are also offered without graduate credit and at a reduced rate.

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Students who have successfully completed this degree will be able to:

  • Summarize Kodaly’s philosophy of music education and discuss its implications for current education situations.
  • Demonstrate the musical and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for teaching quality, child-developmental music education according to the philosophy espoused by Zoltan Kodály.
  • Select and analyze quality repertoire for use in Kodály-inspired classrooms.
  • Demonstrate their own personal musicianship through solfege, conducting, and ensemble experiences.
  • Analyze historical and current issues in music education and the ways that music educators choose to investigate those topics through research-based methods of inquiry.