The British Kodály Academy

Resources

CONTACT FOR BOOK & RESOURCE SALES
Books and resources for Kodály teaching and self-study which are listed below can be purchased directly from the BKA.  Please contact: Margaret Oliver, 58 Frankton Avenue, Coventry CV3 5BB. Tel. 024 7641 1269 or email johnol58@btinternet.com

BKA’s own Publication:
BKA SONGBOOK LATEST EDITION
NOW AVAILABLE WITH CD

How Can I Keep From Singing! + new double CD:
£17.50 (+ p&p).

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 Kodály's materials for musicianship training
   
  333 Reading Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  77 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  66 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  55 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  44 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  33 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  22 2-part exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  15 2-part Exercises Kodály
£   6.00
  50 Nursery Songs Kodály
£   6.00
  Bicinia Hungarica 1 Kodály
£   6.00
  Tricinia Kodály
£   6.00
  Pentatonic Music 1 (Hungarian folk songs) Kodály
£   6.50
  Pentatonic Music 2 (little marches) Kodály
£   6.00
  24 canons on black keys Kodály
£   9.00
  Let Us Sing Correctly Kodály
£   5.50
  Epigrams Kodály
£   6.00
   
 Background material on Kodály
   
arrow right Music should belong to everyone (120 quotes by Kodály)
£   8.50
  An Ode for Music (incl. 2 CDs)
11 analyses of choral compositions of Kodály  Hartyányi
£ 20.00
  Zoltán Kodály (Biography) Breuer
£ 11.00
  Zoltán Kodály in Retrospect Ittzes
£   9.50
  The Kodály Method 1 Choksy
£ 45.00
   
 Materials for musicianship training, singing, and study
See also: David Vinden Publications; Fiona Gaffney Publications;
NYCoS Publications; Growing with Music and other items below.
   
  Classical Canons Molnar
£ 10.00
  77 Rounds and Canons Simpson
£   6.00
  Pentatonic Songbook 1 & 2 Brocklehurst (each)
£   7.70
  150 American Folk Songs Erdei
£ 11.50
  Sail Away Locke
£ 14.50
arrow right 150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching Bolkovac/Johnson
£ 10.00
  Sound Thinking Tacka/Houlahan
      Musical Literacy 1 & 2 (each)
£ 19.50
      Sight Singing/Ear Training 1 & 2 (each)
£ 13.00
  Listening to Art Music Vol 1 & 2 Johnson (each)
£ 30.00
  My Voice is Changing Bell
£   5.00
 
Instrumental music
  Mikrokosmos (piano pieces) Bartók 1- 6 (each)
£   8.50
  44 Violin Duos Bartók Books 1 & 2 (each)
£ 10.50
 
 Early Years Teaching Materials
  Jolly Music Cyrilla Rowsell & David Vinden
Programme based on Kodály principles, for teaching music skills to children through singing:-
arrow right      Beginners’ level  
       The Music Handbook incl. 6 CDs
£ 29.00
       Jolly Music Big Book (companion book for whole class use)
£ 19.95
arrow right      Level One (building on work begun at Beginners’level)  
       The Music Handbook incl. 7 CDs
£ 29.00
       Jolly Music Big Book
£ 19.95
  Music in Pre-School (revised /expanded 1998: English edition, translated and adapted by Jean Sinor)  Forrai
£ 25.00
  Singing Games / Rhymes Geoghegan
      Tiny Tots/ Early Years/Middle Years - incl. CD (each)
£ 18.00
  Fishy, Fishy in the Brook (rhymes in stick notation) Dietrich
£ 11.00
  Rhymes, Mother Goose (stick notation) Dietrich
£ 10.00
  Children’s Songs (stave notation) Dietrich
£   8.00
  Glove puppets
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£   6.25
  Finger puppets
£   2.50
 
 Selected Publications of BKA Patrons
   
  Training Your Choir (Hill/Jones/Ash)
£ 12.00
  Round the Classics Coombes
£   4.95
  Chay Chay Cooley (book only) Coombes
£   8.95
  Sing the Classics (book) Coombes
£ 10.95
  Lindsay Carol Book Coombes
£   1.75
  Lindsay Folk Book 1 Coombes
£   1.75
  Sing Around The World Coombes
£   4.95
  Songkit Coombes
£   9.95
   
 Fiona Gaffney Publications
   
  Music Is For Everyone
(Kodály Programme in 4 stages for KS1/2/3)
   
      Stage One (Units 1-10) Teacher
£ 11.00
    Pupil Class
£   5.50
       Pupil Work Book
£   4.00
     
      Stage Two (Units 11-20) Teacher
£ 11.00
       Pupil Class
£   5.50
       Pupil Work Book
£   4.00
     
      Stage Three (Units 21-30) Teacher
£ 12.00
      Pupil Class
£   6.50
       Pupil Work Book
£   5.00
     
      Stage Four (Units 31-40) Teacher
£ 12.00
       Pupil Class
£   6.50
       Pupil Work Book
£   5.00
   
 Meredith Squires Publications
   
  Class Musicianship Kit with counters
£ 40.00
  Rhythm Flash Cards
£ 21.00
  Pitch and Reading Cards
£ 28.00
 
 David Vinden Publications (Kodály Centre of London)
   
  KCL Songs For Singing & Musicianship Training,
incl. stick notation (treble OR bass)
£ 13.00
  Introduction to the Kodály Concept
£   6.00
  22 Pentatonic Songs (illustrated) in Stick Notation
(Pre-School / Primary)

£   6.00
  Two-Part Hearing Development (two-part canons)
- treble OR bass
£   7.50
  The Modes
£   7.50
  Harmonic Foundations part 1
£   6.00
  Canons (collection mostly in score form)
£   6.00
  11 Canons by Caldara
£   3.50
  Making the Most of Your Material
£   3.50
  Sing I
£   6.00
  Flash Cards [60 cards] 4/4 version
£ 10.50
  Flash Cards [26 cards] 6/8 version
£   3.50
  Flash Cards [27 cards] 3/4 version
£   3.50
  Mini Flash Cards [24 cards] 4/4
£   3.50
  120 Pentatonic Solfa Flash Cards (C, F and G do positions)
£ 12.00
  Musicianship Through Singing
£   6.00
  Songs/Canons in 3/4
£   3.50
  Songs/Canons in 3/4 – Solfa notehead notation (for pupils to colour)
£   3.50
  Little Collection of First Canons
£   3.50
  Little Collection of First Canons – for cellists
£   3.50
  Songs in Solfa notehead notation (for pupils to colour)
£   6.00
  Songs (as above) in Dot notation on stave (for tracing, etc)
£   6.00
  I’m Learning to Read from the Stave
£   9.00
  64 canons by Cherubini – complete edition
£ 16.00
  64 canons – score form only
£   9.00
  24 workshop canons (Cherubini)
£   6.00
  Musica Transalpina 1
£ 25.00
  100 Cantici by Caldara
£ 12.00
  Canons for stick/staff notation dictation, etc
£   6.00
 
 NYCoS Publications
   
  Singing Games / Rhymes Geoghegan
      Tiny Tots/ Early Years/Middle Years - incl. CD (each) 
£ 18.00
  My Voice is Changing Bell
£   5.00
arrow right Go for Bronze Teacher Folder
£ 35.00
      Go for Bronze Pupil Book - Level 1
£   2.50
      Go for Bronze Pupil Book - Level 2
£   2.50
  Go for Silver Teacher Folder
£ 35.00
      Go for Silver Pupil Book - Level 1
£   2.50
      Go for Silver Pupil Book - Level 2
£   2.50
  Singbronze!
£   5.00
  Singsilver!
£   5.00
  Singgold!
£   5.00
 
 Instrumental Teaching Materials
   
  Piano  
  Gillian Earl Publications ‘With Music in Mind’
       Teacher's Guide (Essential Handbook)
£ 18.45
       Pupil Book 1
£ 15.45
       Pupil Book 2
£ 13.45
       Book 1 + Book 2
£ 24.95
       Book 1 + Teacher's Guide
£ 30.95
       Complete Set
£ 40.95
   
  Recorder  
  ‘Growing up with music’ beginners’ scheme by Stephanie Morland
£ 14.50
  ‘Sound Roots to Music’ beginners’ recorder tutor
by Celia Waterhouse

£ 10.00
   
  Jigsaw Guitar Course by Luke Dunlea
       Teacher's Manual Volume 1
£ 10.00
       Children's Books 1-2 with CD (each)
£   10.00
       Children’s Book 3
£ 10.00
       Supplement 1 – sight reading & technical exercises
£   4.50
 
 Additional Materials available from the BKA Bookstore
   
  International Kodály Society
  Music, a Universal Language (incl CDs) – 31 folksongs from different countries, arranged for 2- or 3-part children’s or youth choir
£ 25.00
   
  Kodály Centre of America
  My Singing Bird – 150 folk songs
£ 25.00
   
  Hal Leonard
  Hot Peas and Barley-O (incl CD)  ed. Susan Brumfield children’s songs and games from Scotland
£ 15.00
   
  Judith Johnson / Clayfield Music
       Moses Supposes
£   5.00
       Tickle Me
£   7.00
       Songs for Christmas
£   8.00
       30 Singing Games Judith Creen
£ 11.00
       Practise makes Perfect
£   8.50
       Music for All (Teacher) — a sequentially developed music
     course for older beginners
£   5.50
       Music for All (student’s book)
£   5.00
       Stylistic Knowledge  Erzsébet  Hegyi
£ 21.00
       Listening to Art  Music Vol 1 & 2  Johnson (each)
£ 30.00
   
  Sing for Pleasure (SfP)
       SfP Junior Songbooks
        1    Boom Chicka Boom
£   2.95
        2    Kumala Vista
£   2.95
        3    Tongo
£   2.95
        4    Popocatepetl
£   2.95
        5    Tall Straw Hat
£   2.95
        6    Rock ‘n’ Roll  Around
£   3.45
        7    Lost in Space
£   3.45
        8    I’m Gonna Sing
£   3.45
        9    Ghosts
£   2.95
       10    Bear Hunt
£   2.95
       11    Dreamtime
£   3.45
       1-11 Complete set (including  free ring binder)
£ 34.45
       12 Bells are Ringing
£   3.45
       SfP ring binders (price if sold separately)
£   1.50
   
  SfP Songbooks
       1    Noel Nouvelet
£   4.45
       2    Simi Jadech
£   3.95
       3    Sacramento
£   3.45
       4    All My Trials
£   3.45
       5    Liverpool Lou
£   3.45
       6    Jean Harlow
£   8.00
   
  Echo Songscompiled by John Feierabend
£   9.00
   
  Clockwork Music
        How the Seasons Came  Patricia Lee (incl CD)
        - a musical for children to perform (Key Stage 2)
£13.50
   
  Oxford University Press
       Voiceplay: 22 Songs for Young Children
£ 19.00
   
  Prentice Hall
      The Kodály Method 1 – Choksy
£ 45.00
 
  Growing with Music — M. Stocks & A. Maddocks
       KS1 Teacher’s Book
£ 15.00
       KS2 Book A (Y3/4) and Book B (Y5/6) (each)
£ 15.00
       CD for KS1 & 2
£ 14.00
       Pupil Books 1—4 (each)
     (books 1 & 2 for KS2A, books 3 & 4 for KS2B)
£   5.00
   
 Puppets
   
  Glove puppets
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£   6.25
  Finger puppets
£   2.50
   
 Sundries
   
  Tuning Forks
£   2.20
  Pencils BKA
£   0.25
  Hand Signs Chart A5 BKA
£   0.50
  Hand Signs Chart A3 (incl. tube) BKA
£   1.50
   

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"Sing regularly in a choir, especially the inner parts. This makes you musical. (From "Musical Rules at Home and in Life", notes to Album for the Young)". Robert Schumann

 

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