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Book and resource sales
Updated: 31st May 2010
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 bookstore@britishkodalyacademy.org
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Prices shown below are exclusive of postage and packing, which is charged pro rata.
Kodály's materials for musicianship training |
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| 333 Reading Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 77 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 66 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 55 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 44 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 33 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 22 2-part exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 15 2-part Exercises Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 50 Nursery Songs Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| Bicinia Hungarica 1 Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| Tricinia Kodály | £ 7.50 |
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| Pentatonic Music 1 (Hungarian folk songs) Kodály | £ 6.50 |
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| Pentatonic Music 2 (little marches) Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| 24 canons on black keys Kodály | £ 9.00 |
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| Let Us Sing Correctly Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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| Epigrams Kodály | £ 6.00 |
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Background material on Kodály |
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Music should belong to everyone (120 quotes by Kodály) | £ 8.50 |
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| An Ode for Music (incl. 2 CDs) 11 analyses of choral compositions of Kodály Hartyányi |
£ 20.00 |
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| Zoltán Kodály (Biography) Breuer | £ 11.00 |
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| Zoltán Kodály in Retrospect Ittzes | £ 10.50 |
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| The Kodály Method 1 Choksy | £ 45.00 |
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Materials for musicianship training, singing, and study |
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| See also: David Vinden Publications; Fiona Gaffney Publications; NYCoS Publications; Growing with Music and other items below. | |||
| Classical Canons Molnar | £ 10.00 |
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| 77 Rounds and Canons Simpson | £ 6.00 |
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| Pentatonic Songbook 1 & 2 Brocklehurst (each) | £ 7.70 |
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| 150 American Folk Songs Erdei | £ 12.40 |
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| Sail Away Locke | £ 15.50 |
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150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching Bolkovac/Johnson | £ 10.00 |
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| Sound Thinking Tacka/Houlahan | |||
| Musical Literacy 1 & 2 (each) | £ 19.50 |
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| Sight Singing/Ear Training 1 & 2 (each) | £ 13.00 |
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| Listening to Art Music Vol 1 & 2 Johnson (each) | £ 30.00 |
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| My Voice is Changing Bell | £ 5.00 |
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Instrumental music |
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| Mikrokosmos (piano pieces) Bartók 1- 6 (each) | £ 8.50 |
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| 44 Violin Duos Bartók Books 1 & 2 (each) | £ 10.50 |
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Early Years Teaching Materials |
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| Jolly Music Cyrilla Rowsell & David Vinden: Programme based on Kodály principles, for teaching music skills to children through singing: |
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The Music Handbook (Beginners level) | ||
| The Music Handbook incl. 6 CDs | £ 29.00 |
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| Jolly Music Big Book (companion book for whole class use) | £ 19.95 |
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Level One (building on work begun at Beginners'level) | ||
| The Music Handbook incl. 7 CDs | £ 29.00 |
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| Jolly Music Big Book | £ 19.95 |
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| Music in Pre-School (revised /expanded 1998: English edition, translated and adapted by Jean Sinor) Forrai | £ 25.00 |
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| Singing Games / Rhymes Geoghegan | |||
| Tiny Tots/ Early Years/Middle Years - incl. CD (each) | £ 18.00 |
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| Fishy, Fishy in the Brook (rhymes in stick notation) Dietrich | £ 11.00 |
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| Rhymes, Mother Goose (stick notation) Dietrich | £ 10.00 |
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| Children's Songs (stave notation) Dietrich | £ 8.00 |
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| Glove puppets | from |
£ 6.25 |
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| Finger puppets | £ 2.50 |
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Selected Publications of BKA Patrons |
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| Training Your Choir (Hill/Jones/Ash) | £ 12.00 |
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| Round the Classics Coombes | £ 4.95 |
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| Chay Chay Cooley (book only) Coombes | £ 8.95 |
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| Sing the Classics (book) Coombes | £ 10.95 |
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| Lindsay Carol Book Coombes | £ 1.75 |
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| Lindsay Folk Book 1 Coombes | £ 1.75 |
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| Sing Around The World Coombes | £ 4.95 |
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| Songkit Coombes | £ 9.95 |
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Fiona Gaffney Publications |
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| Music Is For Everyone: (Kodály Programme in 4 stages for KS1/2/3) | |||
| Stage One (Units 1-10) | Teacher | £ 11.00 |
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| Pupil Class | £ 5.50 |
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| Pupil Work Book | £ 4.00 |
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| Stage Two (Units 11-20) | Teacher | £ 11.00 |
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| Pupil Class | £ 5.50 |
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| Pupil Work Book | £ 4.00 |
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| Stage Three (Units 21-30) | Teacher | £ 12.00 |
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| Pupil Class | £ 6.50 |
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| Pupil Work Book | £ 5.00 |
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| Stage Four (Units 31-40) | Teacher | £ 12.00 |
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| Pupil Class | £ 6.50 |
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| Pupil Work Book | £ 5.00 |
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Meredith Squires Publications |
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| Class Musicianship Kit with counters | £ 40.00 |
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| Rhythm Flash Cards | £ 21.00 |
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| Pitch and Reading Cards | £ 28.00 |
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David Vinden Publications (Kodály Centre of London) |
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| KCL Songs For Singing & Musicianship Training, incl. stick notation (treble OR bass) | £ 13.00 |
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| Introduction to the Kodály Concept | £ 6.00 |
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| 22 Pentatonic Songs (illustrated) in Stick Notation (Pre-School / Primary) | £ 6.00 |
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| Two-Part Hearing Development (two-part canons) - treble OR bass | £ 7.50 |
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| The Modes | £ 7.50 |
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| Harmonic Foundations part 1 | £ 6.00 |
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| Canons (collection mostly in score form) | £ 6.00 |
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| 11 Canons by Caldara | £ 3.50 |
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| Making the Most of Your Material | £ 3.50 |
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| Sing I | £ 6.00 |
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| Flash Cards [60 cards] 4/4 version | £ 10.50 |
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| Flash Cards [26 cards] 6/8 version | £ 3.50 |
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| Flash Cards [27 cards] 3/4 version | £ 3.50 |
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| Mini Flash Cards [24 cards] 4/4 | £ 3.50 |
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| 120 Pentatonic Solfa Flash Cards (C, F and G do positions) | £ 12.00 |
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| Musicianship Through Singing | £ 6.00 |
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| Songs/Canons in 3/4 | £ 3.50 |
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| Songs/Canons in 3/4 – Solfa notehead notation (for pupils to colour) | £ 3.50 |
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| Little Collection of First Canons | £ 3.50 |
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| Little Collection of First Canons – for cellists | £ 3.50 |
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| Songs in Solfa notehead notation (for pupils to colour) | £ 6.00 |
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| Songs (as above) in Dot notation on stave (for tracing, etc) | £ 6.00 |
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| I'm Learning to Read from the Stave | £ 9.00 |
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| 64 canons by Cherubini – complete edition | £ 16.00 |
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| 64 canons – score form only | £ 9.00 |
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| 24 workshop canons (Cherubini) | £ 6.00 |
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| Musica Transalpina 1 | £ 25.00 |
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| 100 Cantici by Caldara | £ 12.00 |
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| Canons for stick/staff notation dictation, etc | £ 6.00 |
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NYCoS Publications |
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| Singing Games / Rhymes Geoghegan | |||
| Tiny Tots/ Early Years/Middle Years - incl. CD (each) | £ 18.00 |
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| My Voice is Changing Bell | £ 5.00 |
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Go for Bronze Teacher Folder | £ 35.00 |
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| Go for Bronze Pupil Book - Level 1 | £ 2.50 |
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| Go for Bronze Pupil Book - Level 2 | £ 2.50 |
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| Go for Silver Teacher Folder | £ 35.00 |
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| Go for Silver Pupil Book - Level 1 | £ 2.50 |
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| Go for Silver Pupil Book - Level 2 | £ 2.50 |
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| Singbronze! | £ 5.00 |
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| Singsilver! | £ 5.00 |
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| Singgold! | £ 5.00 |
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Instrumental Teaching Materials |
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| Piano | |||
| Gillian Earl Publications ‘With Music in Mind' | |||
| Teacher's Guide (Essential Handbook) | £ 18.45 |
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| Pupil Book 1 | £ 15.45 |
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| Pupil Book 2 | £ 13.45 |
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| Book 1 + Book 2 | £ 24.95 |
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| Book 1 + Teacher's Guide | £ 30.95 |
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| Complete Set | £ 40.95 |
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| Recorder | |||
| ‘Growing up with music' beginners' scheme by Stephanie Morland | £ 14.50 |
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‘Sound Roots to Music' beginners' recorder tutor by Celia Waterhouse | £ 10.00 |
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| Jigsaw Guitar Course by Luke Dunlea | |||
| Teacher's Manual Volume 1 | £ 10.00 |
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| Children's Books 1-2 with CD (each) | £ 10.00 |
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| Children's Book 3 | £ 10.00 |
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| Supplement 1 – sight reading & technical exercises | £ 4.50 |
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Additional Materials available from the BKA Bookstore |
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| 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 |
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Kodály Centre of America |
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| My Singing Bird – 150 folk songs | £ 30.00 |
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Hal Leonard |
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| Hot Peas and Barley-O (incl CD) ed. Susan Brumfield children's songs and games from Scotland | £ 15.00 |
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Judith Johnson / Clayfield Music |
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| Moses Supposes | £ 5.00 |
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| Tickle Me | £ 7.00 |
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| Songs forChristmas | £ 8.00 |
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| 30 Singing Games Judith Creen | £ 11.00 |
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| Practise makes Perfect | £ 8.50 |
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| Music for All (Teacher) — a sequentially developed music course for older beginners |
£ 5.50 |
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| Music for All (student's book) | £ 5.00 |
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| Stylistic Knowledge Erzsébet Hegyi | £ 21.00 |
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| Listening to Art Music Vol 1 & 2 Johnson (each) | £ 30.00 |
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Sing for Pleasure (SfP) |
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| SfP Junior Songbooks | |||
| 1. Boom Chicka Boom | £ 2.95 |
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| 2. Kumala Vista | £ 2.95 |
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| 3. Tongo | £ 2.95 |
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| 4. Popocatepetl | £ 2.95 |
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| 5. Tall Straw Hat | £ 2.95 |
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| 6. Rock ‘n' Roll Around | £ 3.45 |
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| 7. Lost in Space | £ 3.45 |
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| 8. I'm Gonna Sing | £ 3.45 |
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| 9. Ghosts | £ 2.95 |
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| 10. Bear Hunt | £ 2.95 |
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| 11. Dreamtime | £ 3.45 |
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| 1-11. Complete set (including free ring binder) | £ 34.45 |
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| 12. Bells are Ringing | £ 3.45 |
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| SfP ring binders (price if sold separately) | £ 1.50 |
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| SfP Songbooks | |||
| 1. Noel Nouvelet | £ 4.45 |
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| 2. Simi Jadech | £ 4.45 |
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| 3. Sacramento | £ 3.45 |
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| 4. All My Trials | £ 3.45 |
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| 5. Liverpool Lou | £ 3.45 |
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| 6. Jean Harlow | £ 8.00 |
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Echo Songs |
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| – compiled by John Feierabend | £ 10.00 |
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Clockwork Music |
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| How the Seasons Came Patricia Lee (incl CD) - a musical for children to perform (Key Stage 2) |
£13.50 |
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Oxford University Press |
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| Voiceplay: 22 Songs for Young Children | £ 19.00 |
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Prentice Hall |
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| The Kodály Method 1 – Choksy | £ 45.00 |
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Growing with Music — M. Stocks & A. Maddocks |
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| KS1 Teacher's Book | £ 15.00 |
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| KS2 Book A (Y3/4) and Book B (Y5/6) (each) | £ 15.00 |
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| CD for KS1 & 2 | £ 14.00 |
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| Pupil Books 1—4 (each) (books 1 & 2 for KS2A, books 3 & 4 for KS2B) |
£ 5.00 |
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Puppets |
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| Glove puppets | from |
£ 6.25 |
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| Finger puppets | £ 2.50 |
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Sundries |
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| Tuning Forks | £ 2.20 |
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| Pencils BKA | £ 0.25 |
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| Hand Signs Chart A5 BKA | £ 0.50 |
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| Hand Signs Chart A3 (incl. tube) BKA | £ 1.50 |
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Visit www.sheetmusicplus.com for other Kodály teaching materials and sheet music.