Folk Songs North America Sings

Folk Songs North America Sings by Richard Johnston is an anthology of materials for teaching music in accordance with the ideas of Kodály. Songs are in order of scalic complexity.

Indices: alphabetical, form, songs with refrains, phrase lengths and time signatures, range, scale (sub-index for pentatonic), scale degree emphasis, intervallic specialties, intro of Fa, intro of Ti, rhythmic specialties (simple or compound), syncopation, anacrusis (none, internal only, initial and others), subject, geographic resources.

Includes melody line and lyrics only. No instructions are given on playing and dancing games (refer to the bibliography for a source).

Over 350 songs are included.