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The chapter aims to demonstrate how singing folk songs and folk song arrangements can strengthen the multiple dimensions of choral singers’ musicianship. Students entering a choral program often already know a selection of folk songs. The choral director can use this repertoire to develop vocal production, part-work, music literacy, improvisation, composition, and arranging and listening skills. The chapter ends with an overview of Kodaly’s choral legacy: The Kodály Choral Library, two- and three-part repertoire composed by Kodály based on folk stylistic elements, his classical art music, and his unaccompanied choral compositions. This repertoire can be used to develop sight-reading, part-hearing and part-singing skills and as an introduction to choral repertoire in general. |
