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Links to Music Teaching Resources


Folk Song Sites:
The Holy Names College American Folksong Collection
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free and Borrowable Books

The Traditional Ballad Index 3.1 (not just ballads, pretty much everything!)
English Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians - Sharp/Campbell 1917 
The Full English Folk Song Collection of the EFDSS at Cecil Sharp House
Fun With Folk - Teaching Resources and lesson plans from The Full English Folk Song Collection
Field Trip South
English folk and traditional music on the Internet 
Index of commonly used Kodály Songs (created by Michael Scott Morrise and available for free download!)  Please confirm with me which books in this listing need further, more primary sourcing - this is a GREAT place to start.
Gullah Music - Teaching resources K - 5
Decolonizing the Music Classroom
Teaching While White - resources for white teachers teaching children of color

Singing Game and Dance Videos:
​"Dance It Yourself"- the CDSS Multigenerational Dance Video Series
"MUSIC TEACHER RESOURCES" - videos of singing games taught by GMU graduates and VOKE members. 
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Recorded Music Sites:
Folk Music Index to Recordings
Sound archive of the British Library
Association for Cultural Equity 
"Voices of the World" Series recording
"Voices of America" Series recording

Choral Music Sites:
ChoralWiki
cipoo.net
Adriano Secco Music

Free Music Fonts:
Free Musisync font - FontSpace

Articles of Interest:
Who Said History Was Boring?
Words and Music by Rita Joe: Dialogic Ethnomusicology 
The Real Story Behind Kumbaya

Music Law (Copyrights, publishing, etc)
The Basics of Music Law
Copyright Law
Copyright Infringement
Intellectual property agreement

Music, Movies and Computer Software Rights





This page contains external links to folk music resources which may be useful for those studying the Kodály philosophy of music education.  If you have other sites of interest that you think should be added to this page, please contact Robbin.
Downloadable Workshop handouts:

OAKE Eastern Division Fall Tune-Up, October 25, 2019 at GMU: 
handout_for_oake_eastern_division_tune.pdf

​KESNE Alexander Technique for Music Teachers virtual workshop, February 21, 2021
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