Hush, My Baby

Unusual beginning on the second (Re), practicing the intervals So\Re and So\Mi, before finding the tonic (Do).

Description

Grade: Second Grade
Origin: Mississippi, USA – Lullaby
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: ABCDAB pitches: ABabAB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta/ ti | ta ta ta/a |
| ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So
Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, So\Re, So\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; dynamics: pianissimo/very soft; ritardando, fermata, syncopation
Key Words: United States geography, Mississippi, lullaby, hush, by and by, bring, baby, candy kitty, puppy dog, maybe, cry; contractions: daddy’s (daddy is), don’t (do not)

**“Hush, My Baby”**
Hush, my baby, don’t you cry, Daddy’s going to come home by and by. He will bring to his dear little baby Candy and a kitty and a puppy dog maybe. Hush, hush, hush, and don’t you cry, Daddy’s going to come home by and by.

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The Hunting Horn”

Excellent tune for advanced primary readers learning to sing in parts. The use of fermatas in each phrase challenges the students ability to stay together during the round.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional Round
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: rhythm: AABC – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta/ |
| ta ti ri ti ta | syncopation, | ta ti ta ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, Mi/Do, Do8\So, So/Do8, Do8\Mi, Do8\La only interval not associated with the tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; 4 part round, multiple fermatas, melody ends on the fifth of the scale (So)
Key Words: 4 part round, canon, fox hunting, echo, morn, horn, cheerily, merrily, hark, hill and dale

**“The Hunting Horn”**
Merrily merrily greet the morn, Cheerily cheerily sound the horn; Hark to the echo hear it play O’er hill and dale and far away.

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Hot Cross Buns

Each format includes questions about the musical elements of this tune, promoting student observation and greater retention.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eight;: rest: quarter; discovering form in music
Key Words: world geography: England; pastries, penny, one, two, fresh, sweet, sons, daughters, baking, cooking
Recorder: beginners: A-G-F, three note exercise
Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left and right hand. Pitch Number format may be used for right hand fingering.

Partner song: “Bow, Wow, Wow!”

**“Hot Cross Buns”**

		1.	Hot cross buns, Hot cross buns, One a penny, Two a penny, Hot cross buns.

		2.	Fresh, sweet buns, Fresh, sweet buns, One a penny, Two a penny, Fresh, sweet buns.

		3.	Hot, sweet buns, Hot, sweet buns, All your daughters, All your sons, All love buns

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Hokey Pokey

Intermediate syncopation while adding body movements to music.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Florida, Play-Party Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ ta | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: So/Do, Do\So, So/Ti
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beats; syncopation, repeated melodic rhythm patterns
Key Words: USA, Florida; playground song, camp song, party song, learning left from right, learning body parts, physical science: foot, hand, shoulder, hip, whole self, yourself; all about, about; contraction: that’s (that is)
Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for left, right, and two hands together

**“Hokey Pokey”**

	1.	You put your right foot in, You take your right foot out, You put your right foot in, And you shake it all about, You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	2.	You put your left foot in, You put your left foot out, You put your left foot in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	3.	You put your right hand in, You put your right hand out, You put your right hand in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	4.	You put your left hand in, You put your left hand out, You put your left hand in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	5.	You put your right shoulder in, You put your right shoulder out, You put your right shoulder in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	6.	You put your left shoulder in, You put your left shoulder out, You put your left shoulder in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	7.	You put your right hip in, You put your right hip out, You put your right hip in And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	8.	You put your left hip in, You put your left hip out, You put your left hip in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	9.	You put your whole self in, You put your whole self out, You put your whole self in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

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Higgledy, Piggledy, My Black Hen

Syncopation on 6/8, feeing duple meter in 6/8.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABBA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta (ti) | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, Fa\Re, So\Mi, La\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; vocal slur, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8
Key Words: world geography: England; black, hen, laying eggs, farming, gentlemen, nine, ten, non-sense words

**“Higgledy, Piggledy, My Black Hen”**
Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Sometimes nine and sometimes ten, Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen.

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Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Syncopation and feeling duple meter in 6/8 time
while practicing a major sixth Do/La\Do.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta (ti) (ta) ti |
syncopation, | ti ta ti ta | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do/La, Do\La, La\Mi, La\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8
Key Words: world geography: England; telling time, animals, hours, bird, dog, bear, bee, hive, hen, pecked, fiddle-sticks, cat, horse, cake, cow, danced, pig, oinked, duck, quacked, heavens, mouse, noon

“Hickory, Dickory, Dock”



1.	Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck “one.” The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.	7.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The horse jumped over the clock, The clock struck eight 8, He ate some cake, Hickory Dickory Dock!

2.	Hickory Dickory Dock, The bird looked at the clock, The clock struck two 2, Away she flew, Hickory Dickory Dock	8.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The horse jumped over the clock, The clock struck eight 8, He ate some cake, Hickory Dickory Dock!

3.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The dog barked at the clock, The clock struck three 3, Fiddle-de-dee, Hickory Dickory Dock!	9.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The cow danced on the clock, The clock struck nine 9, She felt so fine, Hickory Dickory Dock!

4.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The bear slept by the clock, The clock struck four 4, He ran out the door, Hickory Dickory Dock!	10.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The pig oinked at the clock, The clock struck ten 10, She did it again, Hickory Dickory Dock!

5.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The bee buzzed round the clock, The clock struck five 5, She went to her hive, Hickory Dickory Dock!	11.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The duck quacked at the clock The clock struck 11, The duck said ‘oh heavens!’ Hickory Dickory Dock!

6.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The hen pecked at the clock, The clock struck six 6, Oh, fiddle-sticks, Hickory Dickory Dock!	12.	Hickory Dickory Dock! The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck noon He’s here too soon! Hickory Dickory Dock!

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Happy Birthday – NEW

Repeated syncopated rhythm pattern, ascending octave skip, and a descending tonic arpeggio w/7th, make this: the most popular song in the word and a seemingly simple tune, quite a challenge.

Description

Grade: Second (2)
Origin: Patty Hill, Mildred J. Hill circa. 1893
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
(one octave)
Intervals: advanced: So/Do (P8) ascending octave skip, So/Do (P4), Ti\So, So/Re, Do\So (P4), La/Fa, So\Mi\Do\Ti descending tonic arpeggio w/7th
Musical Elements: Pick up beat, syncopation, descending tonic arpeggio w/7th, fermata/bird’s eye, repeated syncopation rhythm pattern, ascending octave skip So/So (P8)
Key Words: Happy Birthday

“Happy Birthday”

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear, [NAME],
Happy birthday to you.

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Great Granddad

Introducing sixteenth notes. Adding Fa to the pentatonic scale.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti | ti ri ti ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/La, Mi/So, So\Do, Mi/La, Re/So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth
Key Words: cowboy, Western USA, Granddad, barred, wagon tongue, rough, dangers, wilderness, slept, hunted, coonskin, grub, frying pan, knife, suite, wore; possessive: man’s, hyphenated word: twenty-one

**“Great Granddad”**

		1.	Great Granddad, when the land was young, Barred the door with a wagon tongue, For the times was rough and the dangers great, And he said his prayers both early and late.

		2.	Twenty-one children came to bless The old man’s home in the wilderness, They slept on the floor with the dogs and the cats, And they hunted in the woods in their coonskin caps.

		3.	Great Granddad was a busy man, Cooked his grub in a frying pan, He picked his teeth with his hunting knife, And he wore the same suite all his life.

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Good Morning, Merry Sunshine

Introducing the raised 4th (Fi), challenging intervals, and longer phrases for greater breath support.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCc
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ti ta ti | syncopation, |ta/ ti | ti ri ti ri ti ti |
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa Fi So La – introducing the raised 4th (Fi)
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Ti/Re, Re/Fa, Fa\Ti, Fa\Re, Do/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Re/So, So\Mi, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat
Key Words: earth science, movement of the sun, movements of the moon, stars, sunshine, shined, ceased, playing, staying, East, waken, birds and bees

**“Good Morning, Merry Sunshine”**

		1.	Good morning, merry sunshine, How did you wake so soon? You’ve scared the little stars away, And shined away the moon; I saw you go to sleep last night, Before I ceased my playing, How did you get way over here, And where have you been staying.

		2.	I never go to sleep dear, I just go ’round to see My little children of the East, Who rise to watch for me. I waken all the birds and bees, And flowers on my way. Then last of all the little child Who stayed out late to play.

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Going Over the Sea

Mastering the tonic arpeggio with advanced rhythms.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Canada – Street Song
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AaBb (w/coda)
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ta ti | ta ti ta/ |
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ (ta) ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ta ti | ta (ti) ta ti | ta/ ta ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do\So, Mi\So, Re\So only interval not in the tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, staves three and four composed of the tonic arpeggio in second position (5-1-3) (So-Do-Mi)
Key Words: counting song, rhyming words for counting one to ten: bun, shoe, tree, door, jive, sticks, eleven, skate, line, again, math, crossing the sea, jumped, aboard, sailor-man, ship, standing at attention, soldier; possessive: sailor-man’s

**“Going Over the Sea”**

		1.	When I was one I ate a bun, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,

			Refrain:
			“Going over, going under, Standing at attention like a soldier, With a one, two, and three.”

		2.	When I was two, I tied my shoe, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		3.	When I was three, I climbed a tree, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		4.	When I was four, I shut the door, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		5.	When I was five, I danced the jive, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		6.	When I was six, I picked up sticks, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		7.	When I was seven, I counted to eleven, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		8.	When I was eight, I learned to skate, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		9.	When I was nine, I towed the line, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

		10.	When I was ten, I started again, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain

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2nd Grade