“Little Rabbit” (in Hungarian, ‘Hová mégy te kisnyulacska’”) is a Hungarian children’s song about a little bunny who goes into the forest, collects sticks and builds a garden so he can grow flowers for his mom. Probably not a true story. In the early 1900s Hungarian composer and visionary musicologist Zoltán Kodály scoured the countryside collecting folk songs from Hungary, bringing favorites like “Little Rabbit” into his repertoire. Kodály believed that folk songs, the songs of the people, were the best songs to use to teach young children the basics of music. Today the Kodaly method of teaching music to young children, which is available worldwide, still starts with the songs folks sing and builds from there. The guys in this video we make singing a Hungarian children’s song seem like pretty much the coolest thing anyone could ever do.
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