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Music department | Informatics department
In 1954 the school took on the children's music upbringing with forming its music department.
Music is part of universal human culture.
It expands its power so deep levels where words cannot. With real empathy it is able to turn a human soul into a rich noble-minded and sensitive to
beauty personality. So it cannot be missed from the forming of the whole human. Music teaching cannot be replaced with anything else in the training
of souls and emotions of the youth. It serves the students' spiritual life to get richer, lays down the foundations of their ethical, human attitude,
connection to their homeland, their affection felt for it, so that they will be cultured and striving, useful and active citizens of the Hungary and
the European community in the humanistic world.
Task of musical education is to start students on the way of understanding and loving music, leading to the correct sense of music and right value
judgement. The real aim is to let the experience of the musical catharsis yield emotional renewal and balance in the listener. A long and consciously
directed educational process leads to this.
Hungarian musical education is based on the concepts of Kodály Zoltán, Ádám Jenő and his students:
- the vocal and instrumental folk music and the written music based on folk music is the starting point of musical education,
- basic element of lessons is singing thus children’s most natural instrument is their voice,
- the task of developing sense of rhythm is to organize the children’s physical, moving and mind activities,
- it helps with understanding the speech, the expressive speech and the cognition and notion of the prosaic peculiarities of the Hungarian language,
- music reading develops the musical recollection, and inner hearing,
- orienting in the literature of music helps that the students recognize the music, let them be able to place it in space and time,
- improvisation is the joyful and fantasy moving game of the child,
- contributing to the children’s and youth’s balanced development in body and soul, teaching music is an opportunity to understand, acquire and represent children's plays, folk and historical dances.
In the specialized music classes the aims and tasks of teaching music are basically equal with the aim and the task of classes based on general
programme, but as a result of the higher number of lessons these can be accomplished on a higher level.The aim of this education is upbringing a music
loving, music knowing, and concert visiting audience. It gives an opportunity to notice musical talents early and helps students to continue their
musical studies in grammar schools specialized in music.Assuming: students reach a higher level in their musical studies. Their aesthetic, ethic and
intellectual values get richer by this; their personalities turn into more entire and harmonic ones.
Traditions:
- Programmes on Mother’s Day and at Christmas in each class, welcoming children from kindergarten.
- Learning school leaving songs in class 8.
- Making programme for school carnival with lower level students.
- Folksong competition in spring.
- Celebrating the International Day of Music with a programme and visiting concerts.
- Searching supporters to the Foundation for Musical Education of Children in Orosháza Audition in kindergartens in order to school children.
- Performances of the „big choir” – The Kodály Zoltán Children choir – on opening and closing ceremonies of the school year, school leaving ceremony, on Christmas and year-end concerts, local and foreign country programmes, competitions.
- Performances of Kodály Concert Choir on school and local feasts: in the town hall, on the opening of art exhibitions, on illustrious days in different institutions of the town.
- Performances of music department classes on school and local programmes.
- Visiting concerts of Young Music Lovers.
- Music classes’ programmes on Mother’s Day.
The children choir determines the town's cultural life.
The students of the department regularly perform on the concerts of Liszt Ferenc Art School in Orosháza, as soloists, strings and brass bands’ members.
The children's choir receives a major role from the realisation of the music department's educational tasks. All those abilities, furthermore the high
level musical knowledge acquired by the students in music lessons, get to the audience through the choir's public performances. The choir demands
students’ concentrated work and discipline. The responsibility of singing together and its great experience train the children to pay attention,
concentrate and at the same time the common success increases joy for them. The requirement and the high level solution of tasks enrich their musical
literacy; it incites them for regular work. The choir expands their musical knowledge, since in its programmes from Gregorian tones through the classics
of the universal literature of music until the music of our days all tendencies can be found. The choir undertakes a performance with pleasure on main
festival programmes - including charity evenings – on which they receive many invitations. Foreign country performances and rewarding the choir members
with visiting performances in the Opera House are traditional. The Music Foundation provides the department with significant support in equipments,
to participate in musical competitions, and to travel inside and outside the country.