Zion’s Children

Common and tricky syncopation while practicing the descending intervals La\Do and Do\La.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ti ta ti ta/a | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, |
| ti ri ti ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation | ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi So La
Intervals: intermediate: La\Do, Do\La, So/So ascending dominate octave skip, La/Re
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation
Key Words: sacred, world geography, religious history, African American History, spiritual, Zion, children, mother, father, marching, along, about, welcome; possessive: Zion’s

**“Zion’s Children”**

		1.	Old Zion’s children marching along, Marching along, marching along. Old Zion’s children marching along, Talking about a welcome day.
		2.	I called my mother marching along, Marching along, marching along. I called my mother marching along, Talking about a welcome day.
		3.	I called my father marching along, Marching along, marching along. I called my father marching along, Talking about a welcome day.

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You Turn for Sugar and Tea

Intermediate syncopation using the pentatonic scale and
mastering the descending tonic arpeggio Mi\Do\So.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA, Oklahoma – Play Song (square dance)
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ti ri ti ti (ti) | syncopation, | ta ti (ti) |
| ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti (ti) |
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\So\Do descending tonic arpeggio (x6), La/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; syncopation, descending tonic arpeggio, adding square dance movements to song, moving to steady beat, verse/refrain
Key Words: USA geography: Oklahoma; square dance, sugar, tea, candy, chocolate, cake, ice cream, strawberry cake, popcorn, boys, girls, promenade

**“You Turn for Sugar and Tea”**

	1.	You turn for sugar and tea, I turn for candy; Boys all love that sugar and tea, Girls all love that candy.
		Refrain:
		You turn, I turn, You turn, I turn.
	2.	You turn for chocolate cake, I turn for ice cream; Boys all love that chocolate cake, Girls all love that ice cream.
		Refrain
	3.	You turn for strawberry cake, I turn for popcorn; Boys all love that strawberry cake, Girls all love that popcorn.
		Refrain

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Yankee Doodle

Introducing syncopation with English and American history.

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Grade: Second
Origin: Anglo American – Traditional
Key: A flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta ta |
| ta/a ta/a | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation | ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Re\So, So/Do, Ti\So, Do\La, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; syncopation
Key Words: USA history, world geography, Seven Years’ War, state anthem: Connecticut, doodle (German origins; simpleton), macaroni (1770’s wig) Yankee (citizen of north-east USA), riding, pony, feather, dandy (gentleman), step to music, handy, Captain Gooding, hasty pudding (quick-recipe British dessert from 1742), Squire David (English country gentleman), wasted, Captain Washington, slapping, stallion, million, smother, scampered; abbreviations: ev’ry (every), sav’ed (saved); hyphenated: a-giving (a giving)

**“Yankee Doodle”**

	1.	Yankee Doodle went to town, A riding on a pony; He stuck a feather in his cap, And called it macaroni.
		Chorus:
		Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
	2.	Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding; There we saw the men and boys, As thick as hasty pudding.
		Chorus
	3.	And there we saw a thousand men, As rich as Squire David; And what they wasted ev’ry day, I wish it could be sav’ed.
		Chorus
	4.	And there was Captain Washington, Upon a slapping stallion, A-giving orders to his men; I guess there was a million.
		Chorus
	5.	But I can’t tell you half I saw, They kept up such a smother; So I took my hat off, made a bow, And scampered home to mother.
		Chorus

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Wishy Washy

Advanced rhythms for voice and keyboard.

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Grade: Second
Origin: England – Singing Game
Key: E Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABaB
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ta/ | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ | syncopation,
| ta/a ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: Re/So, So\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, fermata, tied notes
Key Words: world geography, England, sailor, lately, sea, another, along
Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

**“Wishy Washy”**
Oh, we are two sailors lately come from sea, And if you want another one, come along with me. Oh, wishy washy, wishy washy, wishy washy, we, And if you want another one, come along with me.

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The Wind

Introducing the ascending interval 2nd to 5th, Re/So and two descending tonic arpeggios with repeating pitches.

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Grade: Second
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
| ta/a/a/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: Re/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter; rest: half
Key Words: earth sciences, weather, wind directions, North, East, South, West, seasons, beast, neither, clover, corn, clover, best, brings, drifting, snow, jolly, gentle, their, petals, unclose; abbreviation: flow’rs (flowers); contraction: it’s (it is); conjunction: nor

**“The Wind”**

	1.	When the wind is in the East, It’s neither good for man nor beast, It’s neither good for man nor beast.
	2.	When the wind is in the West, The corn and clover grow the best, The corn and clover grow the best.
	3.	When the jolly North Wind blows, It brings the cold and drifting snows, It brings the cold and drifting snows.
	4.	When the gentle South Wind blows, The flow’rs their petals all unclose, The flow’rs their petals all unclose.

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What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby?

Mastering the ascending and descending interval La/Do and Do\La in a minor tonality, with syncopation.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: refrain: AaAB – verse: ABAB – song: ABA refrain/verse/refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ta |
| ta/a | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta ti ti | ti/ ri ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\La, La/Re, Re/Fa, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; refrain/verse, repeat signs, D.C. al Fine, Fine, minor tonality, syncopation
Key Words: sacred, Christmas, holiday season, African American History, pretty, Bethlehem, Immanuel, Jesus Christ; contraction: gonna (going to), I’ll (I will)

**“What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby?”**

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		What you gonna call your pretty little baby, What you gonna call your pretty little baby, What you gonna call your pretty little baby, Born, born in Bethlehem?
	1.	Some say one thing, I’ll say Immanuel, Born, born in Bethlehem. Some call one thing, I’ll call him Jesus Born, born in Bethlehem.
		Refrain

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What Mother Saw

Beginning syncopation in a minor tonality with
melodic rhythm patterns.

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Grade: Second

Origin: USA – words: Emilie Poulsson,
music adapted: Eleanor Smith
Key: F minor (pitched in A Flat Major)
Time: 4/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ta ti ti ta/a | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; melodic rhythm patterns, minor tonality: tonal center is the sixth of the major scale (6, La)
Key Words: animal science, mother, woolly lambs, lying, still, sheep, stopped, sleep, shed, calves, quiet, kept, kick, leap, frisking, nest, fluffy, chicks, peep, yellow balls
Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

**“What Mother Saw”**

	1.	What do you think mother saw on the hill? White woolly lambs that were all lying still. White woolly lambs by the white woolly sheep, All had stopped play and were going to sleep.

	2.	What do you think mother saw in the shed? Little red calves that were going to bed. Quiet they kept, not a kick nor a leap. Frisking no more, they were going to sleep.

	3.	What do you think mother saw in the nest? Soft fluffy chicks cuddling up for their rest. Soft fluffy chicks, not a sound, not a peep, Soft, yellow balls, they were going to sleep.

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Venite Adoremus

Four part round in the Dorian mode: the tonal
center is the second pitch (2, Re) of the major scale.

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Grade: Second
Origin: Latin Traditional Round
Key: Dorian Mode – tonal center: 2, Re
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ta ta ta/a | ta ta ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a/a ti ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do Re
Intervals: intermediate: m3’s: Re/Fa, Do\La, P4: La/Re (primary intervals of a minor tonality) Fa/La M3
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; four part round, Dorian Mode: tonal center is the second (2, Re) of the major scale; syncopation, note: no leading tone
Key Words: old world language: Latin: venite, adoremus, dominum; Dorian modality, “Come let us adore Him”, “Christ the Lord”, sacred, Latin Mass, congregational response

“Venite Adoremus”

Latin

Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Dominum,
Venite adoremus.

English

(O) Come let us adore (him),
(O) Come let us adore (him),
Christ the Lord,
(O) Come let us adore (him).

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Up on the House-Top

Descending variations of La\So\Me\Re,
changing the rhythm to match the lyrics.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta/a | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ta |
| ta ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Re/So, So\Do, Do/Fa, Fa/La, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; tied notes, verse/chorus, changing rhythms to match verse lyrics
Key Words: Christmas, Santa Clause, seasonal, reindeer, pause, jumps, through, chimney, joys, Saint Nick, stocking, dolly, laughs, cries, shut, glorious, hammer, tacks, whistle, whip, cracks; contraction: wouldn’t (would not); possessive: ones’

**“Up on the House-Top”**

	1.	Up on the house-top the reindeer pause, Out jumps good old Santa Clause; Down through the chimney with lots of toys, All for the little ones’ Christmas joys.
		Chorus
		Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go! Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go! Up on the house-top, click, click, click, Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick.
	2.	First comes the stocking of little Neil, Oh dear Santa, fill it well; Give her a dolly that laughs and cries, One that will open and shut her eyes.
		Chorus
	3.	Look in the stocking of little Bill, Oh, just see what a glorious fill! Here is a hammer and lots of tacks, Whistle and a ball and a whip that cracks!
		Chorus

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Turn Me ‘Round

Advanced syncopation in a minor tonality, where the
tonal center is the 6th (La) of the major scale.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Civil Rights Song – from the African American Spiritual
Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: advanced: | ri ti/ ri | ta ta ta ta |
| ta ti ta/ (ta) | syncopation,
| ta ti ta/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation | ti ta ti ti ta (ti) |
| ti/ ri ti ta/ ri ti/ ri |
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Do\La, La/Do, Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; pickup beats, tied notes, syncopation, minor tonality
Key Words: civil rights, African American History Month, protest song, nobody, injustice, segregation, oppression, jail cell, violence; hyphenated words: a-walkin’ (a walking), a-talkin’ (a talking); abbreviations: ’round (around), walkin’ (walking), talkin’ (talking); contractions: ain’t (are not), gonna (going to)

**“Turn Me ‘Round”**

		1.	Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		2.	Ain’t gonna let injustice turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let injustice turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		3.	Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		4.	Ain’t gonna let oppression turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let oppression turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		5.	Ain’t gonna let your jail cells turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let your jail cells turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		6.	Ain’t gonna let your violence turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let your violence turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.
		7.	Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round, turn me ’round, turn me ’round. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round, Keep on a-walkin’, Keep on a-talkin’, Walkin’ all over this a land.

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2nd Grade