Kodaly: 333 Elementary Exercises in Sight SingingThe Kodly concept was inspired by the philosophies of the Hungarian composer and educator, Zoltan Kodly (1882 1967). Throughout Kodlys writings are the notions that a person cannot be complete without music and that music serves to develop a person on all levels emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Kodly believed that every person has musical aptitude and that, ideally, a music education should begin as early as possible in a persons life