According to a group called The Voices Foundation, everyone has a singing voice as well as a speaking voice somewhere inside them. This, they say, should be encouraged from an early because it provides the best and the cheapest, basis on which to build an understanding of music. the Foundation’s ideas, lies the teaching of the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. He observed that song can form a key part of the relationship between mother and child almost from birth. This is especially of more traditional societies, like those of West Africa, where some small children are able to sing literally hundreds of songs, all of which have been learnt by But many modern children first come to an understanding of music when they learn to play an instrument, and some teaching of the theory of music is usually a part of this, their relationship with the music on the page is often a mechanical one.
The of the Voices Foundation is that a natural feeling for rhythm, harmony and musical structure, the very we appreciate in the greatest musicians, can only be achieved through the exploration of music with the voice from the start. The foundation has, therefore, set itself the task of developing a singing-centred musical education programme that could junior pupils all over the world.