Recommended Songbooks

Suggested materials for the Waldorf music teacher, Kindergarten or class teacher, and parents.

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Early Childhood Music Booklist

• Music For Young Children by Rita Jacobs, translated by Roland Everett Hawthorn Press, Bankfield House, 13 Wallbridge, Stroud, GL5 3JA, UK
• Quintenlieder – Music for Young Children in the Mood of the Fifth by Julius Knierim Rudolf Steiner College Press, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks, CA  95628
• I Love to Be Me – Songs in the Mood of the Fifth by Channa A. Seidenberg Wynstone Press
• Merrily We Sing – Original Songs in the Mood of the Fifth composed by Ilian Willwerth
• Giving Love, Bringing Joy by Wilma Ellersiek
• Let’s Dance and Sing by Kundry Willwerth
• Let’s Form a Ring: An Acorn Hill Anthology by Nancy Foster
• One for the Golden Sun: Pentatonic Songs by Peter Oram Starborn Books, 3 Union Terrace, St. Dogmaels, Cardigan, Wales, UK SA43 3LA
• A Change in the Year – pentatonic songs by Peter Oram
• Shepherd’s Songbook for Grades 1, 2, and 3 of Waldorf Schools by Elisabeth Lebret
• Songs for Young Children by John C. Miles Promethean Press Portland, Oregon (503) 774-4946 prometheanpress.com
• Folksongs for the Pentatonic Flute by John C. Miles  Promethean Press
• Dancing As We Sing: Seasonal Circle Plays & Traditional Singing Games for Young Children for by Nancy Foster
• Let’s Dance & Sing arr. Kundry Wllwerth, Mercury Press mercurypress@fellowshipcommunity.org
• A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Puppets and Marionettes by Bronja Zahlingen Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
• Gateways: Morning, Evening, Birthdays, Fairytales – Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Spindrift: Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Spring: Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Summer: Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Autumn: Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Winter: Poems, Songs and Stories, Wynstone Press Stourbridge, England
• Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day by Shea Darian
• Let’s Do It Again! – Folk Songs and Games compiled by Mary Helen Richards richardsinstitute.org
• One, Two, Three! A Collection of Songs, Verses, Riddles, and Stories for Children of Grade 1-3 by David Adams The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, 3911 Bannister Road, Fair Oaks, CA 95628

Songbooks for Grades 3-8

• Early One Morning Folksongs, Rounds, Ballads Shanties, Spirituals and Madrigals edited by Christoph Jaffke and Magda Maier
• Peter’s Book of Rounds, Peter Oram & Phil Forder
• Melodious Rounds, Songs, and Singing Games, Michael and Eleanor Winship
• The Waldorf Songbook, Brien Masters
• The Second Waldorf Songbook, Brien Masters
• Voiceworks I & II by Peter Hunt, Oxford University Press
• The Owl Sings, American Kodaly Educators
• Sourwood Mountain, American Kodaly Educators
• My Singing Bird 150 Folk Songs American Kodaly Educators
• The Sounds of Rounds and Canons, Ruth Boshkoff and Kathy Sorensen
• Rise Up Singing, Peter Blood-Patterson
• A Circle is Cast, Libana
• Night Passage: Invocations for the Journey, Libana
• Fire Within, Libana
• A Revels Garland of Song, Revels, Inc.
• Celebrate the Spring, Revels, Inc.
• ‘Round We Go! Rounds with Activities for Young Singers, Elizabeth Gilpatrick
• ‘Round the Seasons!, Elizabeth Gilpatrick
• Come Join In, Elizabeth Gilpatrick
• Sing With Me! Learn With Me!: Rounds and Partner Songs, Elizabeth Gilpatrick
• Look Before You Leap!: Rounds and Partner Songs, Elizabeth Gilpatrick
• Naturally You Can Sing songbooks, Mary Thienes-Schunemann

World Music

• Let Your Voice Be Heard!, World Music Press
• The Singing Sack, Helen East
• Freedom Is Coming, Wild Goose Publications
•  Multicultural Songs, Games, and Dance, American Kodaly Educators
• Mango Spice: 44 Caribbean Songs, A&C Black Publishing, UK

Movement and Singing Games

• Let’s Do It Again!, Compiled by Mary Helen Richards
• Welcome In the Spring, Paul Kerlee
• Old Songs and Singing Games, Richard Chase
• Singing Games and Play Party Games, Richard Chase
• Singing Games for Families, Schools and Communities, Anna Rainville

Grades 6-8+

• Medieval Music, Joanne Arnold
• Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music, Noah Greenberg
• Anthology of Elizabethan Lute Madrigals, and Rounds, Noah Greenberg
• An Elizabethan Songbook, Noah Greenberg
• Northern Harmony: Plain Tunes, Fuguing Tunes, and Anthems from the New England Singing School Traditions
• Chant Made Simple, Robert M. Fowells

Christmas

• The Christmas Revels Songbook, Revels, Inc.
• The Oxford Book of Carols, Oxford University Press
• Voiceworks At Christmas by Peter Hunt, Oxford University Press

Flute and Recorder Books

For beginning FLUTE experience, even though the books themselves say “for soprano recorders” (Grades 3/4):

• C Flute Tutor for the Choroi C Flute Volume I  by John Miles, Promethean Press
• The Ensemble Recorder Book 1  (for 2 soprano [flutes] w/ Orff instrumentation and voice by Lawrence Wheeler, Sweet Pipes Publications
• The Ensemble Recorder Book 2   (for 2 soprano [flutes] w/ Orff instrumentation and voice by Herbert Rothgarber, Sweet Pipes Publications
• Make a Glad Sound   (for 2 soprano [flutes] w/ Orff instrumentation and voice) by Herbert Rothgarber, Sweet Pipes Publications
• First Performance (for 2 soprano [flutes] with optional voice, alto and Orff instrumentation) by Gerald Burakoff and Willy Strickland, Sweet Pipes Publications
• Round & Round – (for soprano [flutes], voices and Orff instruments) Arr. by Herbert Rothgarber, Sweet Pipes Publications

For intermediate players (maybe Grades 4/5):

• Duet Time (Book 1 easy duets for 2 soprano [flutes] and optional percussion and Book 2 is intermediate duets) Arr. By Sonya Burakoff, Sweet pipes Publications

For Recorders

• The Recorder Guide by Johanna E Kulbach and Arthur Nitka, Oak Publications
• Alto Recorder Tutor by John Miles, Promethean Press
• The Sweet Pipes Recorder (Alto Recorder) Book 1 and 2 A Method Book for Adults and Older Beginners  – by Gerald Burkoff, Paul Clark, William E. Hettick, Sweet Pipes Publications
• Three Thirteenth-Century Dances for soprano (or tenor) and alto (or bass) recorders Transcribed and edited by Peter Hedrick
• Renaissance Time Pieces and Dances Arr, by Gerald Burakoff & Willy Strickland, Sweet Pipes Publications
• Baroque Time Pieces and Dances Arr. By G. Burakoff & W. Strickland, Sweet Pipes Publications
• Recorder Ensemble Without Fear  John Heyworth
• The Recorder Consort 1 – 47 Pieces for recorder consort (solos to sextets) Collected by Steve Rosenberg
• English Madrigals for Recorders Volumes 1 & 2 (AAT trios, SATB quartets and quintets)
• Music from Around the World for Recorders For Upper Grades in Waldorf Schools Descant, Alto, Tenor – Recorder Ensemble Music – selected and arranged by Michael Preston, Waldorf Publications
• The Recorder Guide by Johanna E Kulbach and Arthur Nitka, Oak Publications
• Flute and Recorder Consorts Vol I and II Trios and Quartets   collected and arranged by John Miles, Promethean Press
• Mrs. McGillivray’s Welcome  A Bass Recorder Tutor with a Scottish Flavour Rosemary McGillivray, Hawthorns Music

*There is a huge variety of more good recorder music and information on recorders (including sales of any kind of recorder you might ever want!) and this is the best source we have found:

Courtly Music Unlimited
Phone: 1-800-2-Richie (1-800-274-2443)
E-mail: richie@courtlymusicunlimited.com

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