150 American Folk Songs: To Sing, Read and Play (BH Kodaly) Review

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(More customer reviews)I use songs from this book daily in my music classes for Kindergarten through 5th grade.I think it is the most concise, accurate, and fairly priced collection of American folk songs you will find.If you are a parent, music lover, or music teacher, this book is for you!

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This valuable song resource contains a wealth of material for classroom singing and reading.The collection is organized into a Kodaly sequence, beginning with the simplest pentatonic tunes and progressing into full diatonic melodies.Other helpful features include lists of rhythmic characteristics, ranges and intervals.Games are included with many songs.A must for every classroom!

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Exploring Orff: A Teacher's Guide (Schott) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book gives it all - from the overview of the ideas behind Orff instruction to the details of lesson planning.The grade levels are quite a bit too high for my public school system which has little space and resources, but the plans can be modified to fit.Lots of music samples are given with full analysis and a broad range of expansion ideas to deepen the children's learning.Love this book!

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How can I form a curriculum that addresses my students' needs? How can I choose the best materials for my lessons from the abundance of materials avaliable? How can I plan lessons from the abundance of materials avaliable? How can I plan lessons that have a clear focus and are also open to frequent student contributions? "Exploring Orff" addresses these critical questions. Acknowledgements * Preface * Introduction * Planning your Curriculum * Lesson Planning * Kindergarten * First Grade * Second Grade * Third Grade * Fourth Grade * Fith Grade * Conclusion: Artistry in the Classroom * Appendices * Alphabetical Listing of Suggested Additional Resources * Indes * Sources

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Carmina Burana: Vocal Score (Schott) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book has the full vocal score, well-printed, well laid-out.If you're doing Carmina, you want this score!Clear type, adequate size, good binding, and you can see what the other parts are doing, which really helps most choral singers.

Expensive, but worth it.Particularly if you're going to do Carmina maybe 5-10 times in your career.

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Piano reduction of the score with vocal parts.

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Carmina Burana (Schott) Review

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(More customer reviews)Carmina Burana has become one of the favorite compositions of the 20th century, Carl Orff's setting of the profane medieval Goliard poems has been performed countless times and the opening movement is recognizable by nearly everybody.

Judith Lynn Sebesta has written a book about the text and Orff's music, while some reviewers seem to think the book is intended for adolescents, the complexities of the questions and the illustrations suggest otherwise.

The information in the book is useful.After an overview of the Goliards and the history of the text, Sebesta breaks the Latin text up into segments.Within these segments are the Latin text with definitions, a poetic English translation, and analysis of the text and Orff's setting of the music.The final section contains an alternate English translation.

There are several great things about this book.First, there's nothing else like this out there right now, so it remains a good source.Sebesta is effective at analyzing the text and areas of special interest.The illustrations are also interesting additions, and the Latin definitions can be helpful.For these reasons, this book is recommended to anyone performing CB.

This book is far from perfect.Sebesta asks direct questions of the reader about the relationship between text and music.While this engages the reader's thought, Sebesta provides few answers, making the book less of a resource.

In addition, the book seems to have a fragmented structure.One has little idea what to expect when one turns to the next page.Moreover, the musical analysis is quite lacking.

Despite its shortcomings, this seems to be the best book out there on the subject.Hopefully there will be a Cambridge Music Handbook or a similar publication regarding CB which will be of the quality which it deserves.

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Carmina Burana, first performed in 1937, is based on an important collection of thirteenth-century poems found in the monastery of Benediktbeuren. Carl Orff made selections from this collection and in robust and delicate musical colors painted a manifold picture of life. "Everything I have written up to now, and which you have unfortunately printed, you can shred into pulp. My collected works begin with 'Carmina Burana'." Carl Orff wrote to his publisher after the premiere. And so it was that his work caused a sensation in the whole world and continues to delight people of all cultures. The 'Carmina Burana' is written for solo singers, chorus and orchestra.

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Elementaria: First Acquaintance with Orff-Schulwerk (Schott) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am tempted to give this book a 6, since it is considered the bible of the Orff-Schulwerk approach.Sure enough, it gives complete instructions on how to set up an instrumental ensemble, how to play the instruments, and how to teach the gross motor activity.In fact, it presents some ideas which I put to immediate use in my work as a preschool English teacher in Korea.

But theory is important as well as method.Why should certain activities be taught?Why should the instruments be played a certain way?Why is the Orff approach better than the others?Why are certain musical activities and gross motor activities beneficial?If these questions were answered, I would give this book a 6.

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Elemantaria is a fundamental and practical handbook to Orff-Schulwerk . The author gives suggestions and examples without insisting dogmatically on one exclusive method. She offers well-tried solutions without excluding other possibilities and individual variations. It is not only a valuable personal document, but also a practical and essential guide for educationalists concerned with Orff-Schulwerk. The book is divided into two sections: Part One includes rhythmic, melodic and speech exercises. Part Two contains a detailed study of elementary movement training. There is an important appendix, with illustrations, on how to play the instruments used in the earley stages of teaching. Music examples, movement diagrams. Illustrated. Author's Preface * Part One: Rhythmic-Melodic Exercises * Fundamentals * Rhythmic Exercises * Disposition and posture * Reaction trainig * Finding 'rhythmic building bricks' * Games with 'rhythmic building bricks'* Leading a group, making up accompainments, completing phrase * Melodic Exercises * Disposition and posture when playing barred percussion instruments * Accompaniements, songs, pieces * Making up accompaniements and completing phrases * Hints on the early stages of recorder playing * Speech Exercises * Word series and sayings with rhythmic accompainment * Part Two: Elementary Movement Training * Introduction * Reaction training * Gymnastic exercises * Movement training * Movement variations and combinations * Movement pieces * Elementary movement improvisation * Movement accompaniment * Suggestions for movement lessons for beginners * Appendix

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Sing It Yourself: 220 Pentatonic American Folk Songs Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a vast collection of pentatonic songs, arranged in order of difficulty.It includes a wide variety of songs, including Black spirituals and Native American songs.

Before you pay a hefty price for this book, though, try 0135167574, 0135166667, and 0139491651.

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A collection of 220 folk songs representing different parts of the United States, some with foreign roots. The songs are based on pentatonic scales making it easy for children to learn the melodies. All of the songs are playable on Orff instruments. These songs can be used as a springboard for discussing other states and cultures.

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333 Reading Exercises (Chord Method) Review

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(More customer reviews)Recommended for any vocal or instrumental student.In fact, when I was taking voice lessons, I used these exercises on my own.

The exercises are written on a single line, in solfege notation for some exercises and in conventional notation for others.

The exercises are categorized according to tone row.Recorder teachers may be especially interested in pages 1-3 and 8, which, if played in G major, are playable with the fingers of the left hand.However, a teacher following the Choksy sequence would not be able to use any of the exercises in the beginning stages.

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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sigh-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This collection of 333 reading exercises is the revised English Edition, taken from the 1966 Hungarian Edition.

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