According to a group called the Voices Foundation, everyone has a singing voice as well as a
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(speak) voice somewhere inside them. This, they say, should be enc
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from an early age because it provides the best, and the
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(cheap), basis on which to build an understanding of music.
The teachings of the Hungarian
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(compose) Zoltan Kodaly are responsible for this idea. He observed that songs can become a key part of the relationship
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a mother and her child almost from birth. This is es
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true of traditional societies,
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those of West Africa, where some small children are able to sing literally hun
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of songs, all of which have been learnt by heart. However, many modern children first come to an understanding of music
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they learn to play an instrument,
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although 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.