Folk Songs North American Sings
Folk Song Book Ideal For Kodaly Work

Author: Richard Johnston

50480904 $45.00 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $36.00 USD

This superb 382-page resource contains more than 350 North American folk songs, carefully sequenced both rhythmically and melodically for use with the Kodály method, which is based on authentic Hungarian folk music. The collection features information about solfege, form, phrase, length, range, rhythmic construction, etc. This is a timeless book that can be used in hundreds of different ways! For Grades 3-8.

Contents: Alabama Girl • All the Pretty Little Horses • Baa Baa Black Sheep • Bye, Baby Bunting • C'est La Nuit • Chippewa Lullaby • Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? • Eensy Weensy Spider • Eskimo Game Song • Hickory Dickory Dock • I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) • Let Me Fly • Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow • Old Dan Tucker • Resonet in Laudibus • Skip to My Lou • There Was an Old Woman • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star • The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn • plus many, many more!

Four And Twenty
2 Part A Cappella Collection

Composer: Emily Crocker

Teacher's Edition:
47123025 $15.00 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $12.00 USD

Singer's Edition Pak (5 Books):
47123026 $12.50 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $10.00 USD

Here is a collection of 2-Part a cappella arrangements that really work for the young choir. These 24 delightful songs can help build the young singer's sight-reading skills, improve intonation and choral tone, and develop expressive singing. The songs range in difficulty from easy to challenging, and are composed in several different styles, including folk songs, spirituals, rounds and canons, holiday songs, and original pieces. The Teacher's Edition offers comprehensive suggestions, including tips for adapting the songs to a Kodaly curriculum or adding Orff instruments. Ideal for classroom or concert!
For Gr. 4-9.

Kodaly In The Classroom
A Practical Approach To Teaching Pitch And Rhythm

Composer: Linda Rann
Intermediate Set 1

Teacher Edition:
09970599 $19.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $15.96 USD

Kodály in the Classroom is a series of children's songs and teacher lessons sequentially organized to teach the basics of pitch and rhythm through singing and games for elementary students. The song material consists of American folk and well-known children's songs. Teacher lessons are easy to follow and do not require previous training in Kodály methodology. Also included are reproducible singer sheets and activities, and a companion CD with vocals and accompaniment only tracks. Intermediate (Set I) includes 20 songs for upper elementary students including: Cape Cod Girls, The Old Brass Wagon, Land of the Silver Birch, Love Somebody, Button You Must Wander, Long-Legged Sailor and more! For Gr. 4-6.

Performance/Accompaniment CD:
09970601 $49.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $39.96 USD

Classroom Kit (includes Teacher Edition And Accompaniment CD):
09970603 $59.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $47.95 USD

The Kodaly Way To Music Volume 1

Series: BH Kodaly
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Medium: Book

Composer: Cecilia Vajda
Forward by Yehudi Menuhin

48009622 $85.00 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $68.00 USD

The Kodaly Choral Method

This comprehensive series of progressive songs and sight-singing exercises is designed to promote a throough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporating a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry. Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs.

333 Elementary Exercises (ed. Young) 48002815 $6.50 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $5.20 USD

333 Reading Exercies 48010000 $7.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $6.36 USD

Fifty Nursery Songs(ed.Russell/Smith)

Arranger: Geoffry Russell-Smith
Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009971 $16.50 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $13.20 USD

These songs are not meant as sight-singing material; they were composed to provide very simple not and rhythm patterns for the kindergarten. The five-not (pentatonic) scale is employed so as to avoid the use of semi-tones at an age when certainty of intonation is only just developing. The first songs are in fact written on two notes only, later progressing to three, four and five.

Pentatonic Music Vol. II (100 Little Marches)

Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009991 $7.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $6.36 USD

This collection of 100 Little Marches was incorporated into the late Kodály's Choral Method to perform a number of educationally useful and yet separate functions. They are, however, performance pieces, albeit for classroom use, and should be learned in conjunction with sight-reading training using 333 Elementary Exercises.

Pentatonic Music Vol. III (100 Cheeremissian Melodies)

Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009992 $12.50 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $10.00 USD

This collection of 100 Cheremissian melodies was incorporated into the late Kodály's Choral Method to perform a number of educationally useful and yet separate functions. They are, however, performance pieces, albeit for classroom use, and should be learned in conjunction with sight-reading training using 333 Elementary Exercises.

33 Two-Part Exercises

Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009999 $10.50 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $8.40 USD

These beautiful compositions present further fascinating problems in intonation and the understanding of remote modulation which characterize this stage of the Kodály Method.

55 Two-Part Exercises

Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009969 $11.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $9.56 USD

The Kodaly Choral Concept Revised English Editions by Geoffry Russell-Smith

66 Two-Part Exercises

Arranger: Geoffry Russell-Smith
Composer: Zoltán Kodály

48009997 $12.25 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $9.80 USD

Of the various volumes of pieces from The Kodaly Choral Method, this book instroduces a wider freedom of key through comparatively frequent modulation, and at the same time explores polyphonic devices and styles. The standard of difficulty places it after “15 Two-Part Exercises”

Bicinia Americana
22 Traditional American Children's Songs, Two-Part)

Composer: Erzsébet Szönyi

48002891 $7.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $6.36 USD

Solfege Bingo
Whole-Group Games and Activities For The Music Classroom

Composer: Cheryl Lavender

09970423 Game/CD Pak $39.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $31.96 USD

09970474 Replacement CD $15.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $12.76 USD

From Cheryl Lavender's popular Bingo series, here is a game designed to help students in grades 3-8 hear, read, perform and identify solfege melody patterns. By playing Solfege BINGO, your students will develop ear training and sight-reading skills - essential for music literacy and overall musicianship. Includes beginning to intermediate note-reading through 2 levels of play: Level A includes melody patterns based on the C pentatonic scale, and Level B uses the C major scale. The professionally-produced CD recording includes 8 different sound sequences ranging from easy to challenging, so you can play the game again and again! The Game/CD Pak comes complete with 30 player cards, a helpful Educator's Guide, Cutout Caller Cards, a Kodály Hand Sign poster and CD recording.

Hot Peas And Barley-O
Children's Songs and Games From Scotland

Arranger: Susan Brumfield

09970700 Book/CD $29.95 USD
SCHOOL PRICE $23.96 USD


Hot Peas and Barley-O is a collection of thirty-one children's songs and games from Scotland, selected, transcribed and annotated by Dr. Susan Brumfield. Beautifully illustrated with rare photos from the past, along with the fresh faces of children of today, this book is filled with traditional children's music passed down from one generation to another, including rhymes for skipping rope, counting out, and ball-bouncing, singing games and songs just for fun. The enclosed CD contains authentic field recordings collected in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, and new recordings that feature children from the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the New Beacon School for Boys. Hot Peas and Barley-O includes historical references for each song, pedagogical indices and suggestions for developing a literacy-based curriculum. Ideally suited for teaching musical skills, this collection provides a “vocabulary” of music and play from which children can draw today. Adults and kids of all ages will discover the fun and enjoyment of listening, learning, singing and playing these songs for generations to come. Songs include: Eetle Ottle Black Bottle, Teddy Bear Teddy Bear, Granny in the Kitchen, Down to the Baker Shop, Rosy Apple Lemon and a Pear, I'm the Monster of Loch Ness, Hot Peas and Barley-O, I'm a Bone-Legged Chicken and many more! Available: Book/CD Pak. For Grades 1-6.