ZOLTAN KODALY CHORAL METHOD Series editor PERCY MYOUNG Revised Edthon (Aine songs with plane ) Cnglish words by GEOFFRY RUSSELL- SMITH BOOSEY & HAWKESTHE KODALY CHORAL METHOD The musical world has come to regard Kédaly’s contribution to music education with ever increasing esteem and respect, Since the appearance of the Methad with English | text some 15 years ago, it has been widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world, The volumes marked * below are now available with revised English text by Geoffry Russell-Smith, Further information (including details of the German, French and Spanish editions) may be obtained from the Educational Music Department, Boosey & Hawkes The complete edition comprises — * 50 Nursery Songs within the range of five notes 333 Elementary Exercises Pentatonic Music Vols. I-IV Let us Sing-Correctly (Exercises in Intonation) * Bicinia Hungarica |: 60 progressive two-part songs * Bicinia Hungarica I1: 40 progressive two-part songs * Bicinia Hungarica 111: 20 progressive two-part songs * Bicinia Hungarica IV: 60 progressive two-part songs Fifteen Two:part Exercises forming with Let us Sing Correctly an introduction to the next six volumes: 77 Tworpart Exercises 66 Two-part Exercises 55 Two-part Exercises 44 Two-part Exercises 33 Two-part Exercises 22 Two-part Exercises Tricinia: 29 progressive three-part songs Epigrams: Nine songs for one or two voices or instruments with piano accompaniment (separate editions) 24 Little Canons on the Black Keys The following publications are intended as a guide to the Choral Method, or for use in conjunction with it — The Kodaly Concept of Music Education by Helga Szabé (Text Book and three 12” Stereo L.P. Records) Kodaly’s Principles in Practice by Erzsébet Szonyi (Text Book) Kodaly Choral Method Hand Signs Wall Chart Musical Education in Hungary edited by Frigyes Sandor (Text Book) Musical Reading and Writing by Erzsébet Szonyi — 100 lessons in music literacy training under the Kodaly Method (Teachers’ Book in 2 volumes, Pupils’ Book in 4 volumes) The Kodaly Way to Music by Cecilia Vajda (in preparation) (Text Book) BOOSEY & HAWKES MUSIC PUBLISHERS LIMITED | 295 Regent Street, London, WIA 1BRPREFACE TO THE REVISED ENGLISH EDITION the Koudly Choral Method, Originally they consisted of wordless vocalises. and as pact of the student's final stage of development in combined musicianship and literacy waining Essentially they are for reading at sight, and for this purpose they differ rom other items from the Method in that they are accompanied Due to the more advanced technique of the singer implicit in this collection the composer was able to produce items of such immediacy of appeal that word were later added by Melinda Kistetenyi and the resulting songs became populai with both singers and concert audiences The English words by Geoffry Russell-Smith do not attempt a line-by-line J of the original atmospheric and evocative transliteration. but capture tl Iyries. Loudon 1968 The vocal part, ij so desired. may be given wa string or wind inséeam her or lower, It can, with advantage to the Zoltan Kodaly singer (performer) be treated as a series of sight-readl pian accompaniment, o voices of instruments. re-set by the composer, is also availabl