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Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

"Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis," Lyrics, Text Format

Extended range skipping and stepping, sometimes
chromatically with a raised supertonic (2, Ri) and
dominate (5, Si), up and down the staff.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Chorus: words: Andrew B. Sterling; music: Kerry Mills (1904), celebrating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition – “St. Louis World’s Fair”
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: Chorus: AaBa
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta/a | ta/a/a |
    | ta (ta) (ta) | ta ta ta |
  • Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So Si La Ti Do Re Ri Mi – raised/sharp dominate (5, Si) and supertonic (2, Ri), extended range
  • Intervals: advanced: Si/Mi8 (M6), Mi8\Do8\Sodescending tonic arpeggio (I, C) La/Do8 (m3), La/Re (P4), Re8/Ri8 (m2), Ri8/Mi (m2), Mi/Mi8 (P4). Mi\La (P5), La\Si (m2), Si/La (m2), Re8\So (P5), So/Do8(P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; rest: quarter; tied notes, melodic rhythm patterns, moving chromatically (by half steps), raised/sharp supertonic and dominate, stepping and skipping up and down the staff
  • Key Words: USA history: Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson, Louis and Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition – “St. Louis World’s Fair,” USA geography: Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri; Hoochee-Koochee (belly dance), tootsie-wootsie (loved one), lie-skee (slang for lie), die-skee (slang for die), dash (dance), congregation (church members)
  • Recorder: advanced: practicing G# and high D# and E, moving chromatically, improving finger dexterity stepping and skipping up and down the staff


“Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” 

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair,
Don’t tell me the lights are shining any place but there.
We will dance the Hoochee-Koochee, I will be you tootsie wootsie;
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair.

Additional Choruses:
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair,
Take my tip and don’t stop running until you are there,
You’re a wonder that’s no lie-skee, if you don’t fall down and die-skee,
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair,
All the boys and all the girls are going to be there;
If they ask about the cashier, you can say he cuts a dash here,
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair,
Don’t tell me the lights are shining any place but there;
I’ll be waiting at the station, for the whole congregation,
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair
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The Marine’s Hymn

"The Marine's Hymn," Lyrics, Text Format

Syncopation in 2/2, cut time, tonic octave skip
Do/Do, tonic arpeggios, subdominant arpeggio, and eight
measure phrases promote breath support for voice and recorder.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Marine Corps Hymn, circa. 1917
    music: Jacques Offenbach’s “Geneviève de Brabant,” revised 1867
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/2 cut time
  • Form: AABbA
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta | ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta/a |
    | ta (ta) ta ta | ta ti ti | ta (ta) ti/ ri | syncopation,
    | ta ti/ ri | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
  • Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio (I, C), So/Do8 (P4) Do8\So\Mi descending tonic arpeggio (I, C), Do/Do8 ascending tonic octave skip, La\Fa (M3), Fa/La/Do ascending subdominant arpeggio (IV, F), So/Do8\So (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, tied notes, 2/2 – cut time syncopation, tonic octave skip, tonic arpeggios, subdominant arpeggio, eight measure phrases promote breath support
  • Key Words: USA history, USA Armed Services, US Marines, Marine Corps Hymn, “Rhymes of the Rookies” published in 1917 by W.E. Christian, world history/geography: Jacques Offenbach ( 1819-1880) German Romantic composer, Halls of Montezuma, Tripoli, patriotism, patriot, freedom, honor, proud, claim, title, United States Marines, unfurled, breeze, dawn, tropic scenes, always, health, serve, strife, nerve, Army, Navy, guarded; contractions: flag’s (flag is) , here’s (here is), we’ve (we have); abbreviations: clime (climate) , possessive: Heaven’s
  • Recorder: intermediate: C/C tonic octave skip, C/E/G, C\G\E tonic arpeggios, and F/A/C subdominant arpeggio, note: eight measure phrases promote breath support


“The Marine’s Hymn” 
1.
 From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean:
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.
2.
 Our flag’s unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines.
3. Here’s health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we’ve fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
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MacNamara’s Band – New

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Feeling of duple meter in 6/8.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth (5)
  • Origin: Ireland – Music: Shamus O’Connor – Words: John J Stamford – circa 1889
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: ABAbCBDb
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/a/ ti | ta ti ta ti | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta/ ti | ta/ ta ti |
  • Pitches: advanced: So Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi (m3), Do\So (P4), So/Mi M6), So8\Do (P5)
  • Musical Elements: • notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: none; running eighth notes, syncopation, feeling of duple meter in 6/8 where one beat is equal to a dotted quarter, tied notes, rhythm changes with verse syllables
  • Key Words: • Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day, leader of the band, although, finest, wakes, weddings, funerals, march from Saul, rehearsing, affair, annual, celebration, gentry, General Grant, Uncle Yulis, Sweden, march, ladies, grand, shout, Irish band, bunch, shamrocks, uniform, funniest, Swede, McCarthy, O’Brians, Ryans, Sheehans, Meehans, Hennessey, Tennessee, yimminy, clang, credit, blaze, pumps, tootles, musical instruments: bass drum, drums, cymbals, bazoon, bagpipes, flute

 


“MacNamara’s Band”
1 Oh!, me name is McNamara, I’m the leader of the band,
Although we’re few in numbers we’re the finest in the land.
We play at wakes and weddings, and at every fancy ball,
And when we play at funerals we play the march from Saul.
Chorus:
Oh! the drums go bang, and the cymbals clang,
and the horns they blaze away,
McCarthy pumps the old bazoon while I the pipes do play;
And, Hennessey Tennessey tootles the flute,
and the music is somethin’ grand,
A credit to old Ireland is McNamara’s Band!
2 Right now we are rehearsin’ for a very swell affair,
The annual celebration, all the gentry will be there.
When General Grant to Ireland came, he took me by the hand,
Says he, “I never saw the likes of McNamara’s Band.”
Chorus
3 Oh my name is Uncle Yulis and from Sweden I have come,
To play with McNamara’s Band and beat the big bass drum,
And when I march along the street the ladies think I’m grand,
They shout “There’s Uncle Yulis playing with an Irish band.”
4 Oh! I wear a bunch of shamrocks and a uniform of green,
And I am the funniest looking Swede that you have ever seen.
There’s O’Briens and Ryans and Sheehans and Meehans,
they come from Ireland,
But by Yimminy I’m the only Swede in McNamara’s Band.
Chorus
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Mademoiselle From Armentieres

"Mademoiselle From Armentieres," Lyrics, Text Format

Syncopation, dominate octave skip, dominate arpeggio,
and feeling duple meter in 6/8 time.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: England – Traditional, tune dates from 1830’s (French Army), popular during the Franco-Prussian war (1870), and in World War I (1914)
  • Key: F Major 
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: rhythm: AABC – pitches: ABCD
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a ti | syncopation, | ta/a/a | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ | ta/ ta/ |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So (m3), Fa\Re, (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Re\Ti\So descending dominate arpeggio (V, C), So/So ascending dominate octave skip
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, syncopation, dominate arpeggio, melodic rhythm patterns, 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: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter 
  • Key Words: world history: World War I, world geography: Armentieres, France; language: French: mademoiselle (unmarried woman), Parley voo (respelling of the French – parlez-vous, meaning: do you speak?), Hinky Dinky (person/place of questionable quality), forty years, steady beat; contraction: she’s (she was), she’ll (she will)
  • Recorder: intermediate: practicing B flat, descending dominate arpeggio, and ascending dominate octave skip

Armentières: Dutch: Armentiers) is a commune in the Nord department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. It is part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole.

 


“Mademoiselle From Armentieres” 

Mademoiselle from Armentiers Parley voo,
Mademoiselle from Armentiers Parley voo,
Mademoiselle from Armentiers
She hasn’t been kissed in forty years,
Hinky Dinky Parley Voo.

Challenge students to compose new lyrics.

Example:

Mademoiselle from Armentiers Parley voo,
Mademoiselle from Armentiers Parley voo,
They say she’s born with two left feet
She’ll never keep a steady beat,
Hinky Dinky Parley Voo.
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Loch Lomond

"Loch Lomond," Lyrics, Text Format

Intermediate syncopation stepping and skipping up and down the staff, including two tonic arpeggios, I6 (F6): Do/Mi/So/La.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Scotland, United Kingdom – Folk Song (1841)
  • Key: F Major 
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: through composed*
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a ta ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Do\La (m3), Do/Mi/So/La8 ascending tonic arpeggio w/6th
    (I6, F6), So8\Mi (m3), Mi/So8 (m3), So/Ti (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half. dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation on the fourth quarter of the second and fourth beats (uh of 2, uh of 4) 
  • Key Words: world geography: Loch Lomond**, Scotland, Highland Boundary Fault (separating the lowland from the highland), Great Britain, freshwater loch (lake), high road, low road; Old English: afore (before), ye (you) , bonnie (pretty); contractions: ye’ll (you will), I’ll (I will)
  • Recorder: intermediate: syncopation on the fourth quarter of the second and fourth beats (uh of 2, uh of 4), ascending tonic arpeggio w/6th (I6, F6), excellent practice moving up and down the staff by steps and skips

*Only the chorus is represented here.
** Lomond: large freshwater lake containing many islands.


“Loch Lomond” 

Oh! Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road,
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye;
But me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
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Life in the Army

"Life in the Army," Lyrics, Text Format

Syncopation on the second half of the first beat (& of 1)
and an ascending tonic arpeggio.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Traditional
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AB – verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation,
    | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta/ (ti) |
    | ti ta ti ti ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a/a (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: beginners: So/Do (P4), Ti\So (m3), So/Re (P5), Do\La (m3), So/Do/Mi(ti)/So8ascending tonic arpeggio (I, G), So8\Mi (m3), Re/So8 (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, syncopation, tonic arpeggio, verse/refrain
  • Key Words: USA history, Armed Services, military song, camp song, scout song, biscuits, mighty fine, rolled, killed, friend, coffee, mud, water, tastes, iodine, chicken, drumsticks, beating time, enough, army life, gee me, hey me, I wanna go home
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing F sharp, ascending tonic arpeggio

“Life in the Army” 
1. The biscuits in the army they say are mighty fine,
But one rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine,
Refrain:
Oh, I have had enough of army life,
Gee Ma, I wanna go,
Hey ma, I got to go,
Gee Ma, I wanna go home.
2.
 The coffee in the army they say is mighty fine,
It looks like mud and water and tastes like iodine,
Refrain
3. The chicken in the army they say is mighty fine,
But once two drumsticks got up and started keeping time,
Refrain
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart

"Let Me Call You Sweetheart," Lyrics, Text Format

Lowered/flat dominate (5, Se), natural sign,
and sharp submediant (6, Le – E#=F).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Beth Slater Whitson, Leo Friedman (1910)
  • Key: G Major 
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: chorus: ABaC*
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta/a | ta/a/a |
  • Pitches: advanced: Mi Se So La Le Ti Do Re Mi
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio (I, G), Mi\So (M6), So\Se/So (m2),
    Ti\Le/Ti (m2), Re\Ti (M3), Ti\So (m3), So/Fa (m7), Mi\La (P5)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; tied notes, accidentals: flat, natural, sharp 
  • Key Words: USA history, courting song, popular song, Mother’s day, Valentine’s day, sweetheart, whisper, love-light, glowing

*Popular chorus from the early 20th century standard.

 

 


“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” 

Let me call you sweetheart, I’m in love with you.
Let me hear you whisper that you love me too.
Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true.
Let me call you sweetheart, I’m in love with you.
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Laredo

"Laredo," Lyrics, Text Format

7/8 time signature grouped into 4 and 3 eighths,
natural tonic (Di) and sharped supertonic (Ri).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Traditional Cowboy Song
  • Key: E Flat Major
  • Time: 7/8 (uncommon time signature, grouped into 3-4)
  • Form: staves, w/repeats: AABBaabbAB – w/o: ABabA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ta ta |
    | ta/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Di Re Ri Mi Fa So – raised/natural tonic (1, Di) and supertonic (2, Ri)
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Mi\Ri/Mi (m2), Mi\Do (M3), Re\Di/Re (m2), Do/Fa (P4), Fa\Re (m3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat (beginning each staff), multiple repeat signs (5), tied notes, 7/8 time signature (grouped into 4-3 eighths), sharp, natural, raised tonic and supertonic (Di, Ri)
  • Key Words: USA history; USA geography: Laredo, Texas, world geography: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; languages: English, Spanish; cowboy song, cowboy’s lament, cowboy’s farewell, sorely, secret heart, pain to part, chest of treasures, contain, great devotion, passion; contraction: I’m (I am)
  • Recorder: advanced: Eb, Ab, Bb, F#, natural sign

“Laredo” 
I leave now to go to Laredo my love, I come here to say farewell.
While I’m there I will sorely miss you, my love, how much I can never tell.
And this golden key, now take it, my love, and open my secret heart:
How much I shall always want you, my love, and how great my pain to part.
And take now the chest of treasures, my love, and all that it may contain.
It hold all my great devotion, my love, my passion and sometimes pain.
I leave now to go to Laredo, my love, I come here to say farewell.
While I’m there, I will sorely miss you, my love, how much I can never tell.
Spanish
Ya me voy para el Laredo, mi bien, Te vengo a decir adios.
Da alla te mando decir, mi bien, como se mancuernan dos.
Toma esa llavita de oro, mi bien, abre mi pecho y veras:
Lo mucho que yo te quiero, mi bien, y el mal pago que me das.
Toma esa caji ta de oro, mi bien, mira lo que lleva dentro.
Lleva amores, lleva celos, mi bien, Y un poco de sentimiento.
Ya me voy para el Laredo, mi bien, Te vengo a decir adios.
Da alla te mando decir, mi bien, como se mancuernan dos.
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Land of the Silver Birch

"Land of the Silver Birch," Lyrics, Text Format

Counting beat divisions and rhythm in 2/2 (cut time),
minor tonality with tonic and submediant arpeggios.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Canada – Folk Song
  • Key: D minor (pitched in F Major)
  • Time: 2/2 – cut time (4/4 also shown)
  • Form: phrases: ABbCD – song: AB, verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: intermediate: 2/2: | ta ti ti | ti ti ta
    | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a | ta ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi So La – also the pitches of the pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: La/Mi (P5) Mi\La (P5), Mi/La (P4), So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, F) Mi\Do\La descending submediant arpeggio (vi, Dm), La/Do (m3), Do\La (m3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eighth; tied notes, syncopation, vocal slur, pentatonic scale pitches, minor tonality, verse/refrain
  • Key Words: world geography: Canada; Native North Americans, earth science, animal science, silver birch (tree), beaver, mighty moose, wanders, at will, lake, rocky shore, forest, lowlands, thee, hills, north, rocky ledge, wigwam, edge, silent, still; possessive: water’s
  • Recorder: intermediate: D minor, tonic (i, Dm) and mediate (III, F) descending arpeggios

“Land of the Silver Birch” 
1. Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver,
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will,
Blue lake and rocky shore, I will return once more.
Refrain
Boom de de boom boom,
Boom de de boom boom,
Boom de de boom boom, Boom.
2.
 Down in the forest, deep in the lowlands,
My heart cries out for thee, hills of the north,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
3. High on a rocky ledge I’ll build my wigwam,
Close by the water’s edge, silent and still,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
4. Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver,
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
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La Bamba

"La Bamba," Lyrics, Text Format

Intermediate syncopation, limited range, and uncommon arpeggios: I6(F6), vii (Ed -diminished).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Mexico – Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: through composed
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | (ti) ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation, | ti ti (ta) | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ti ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi\Do (M3), Re\Ti (m3), Ti/Re/Fa ascending arpeggio (vii, Ed – diminished), Do\La (m3), La/Re (P4), Mi\Do\La\So descending arpeggio (I6, F6), Ti\So (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter, eighth; repeat signs, first and second endings, syncopation, tonic arpeggio w/sixth, vii arpeggio (diminished)
  • Key Words: world geography: Veracruz, Mexico; popular song from the 1958, Ritchie Valens, Cinco de Mayo


“La Bamba” 

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia y otra cosita
Y arriba y arriba
Y arriba arriba y arriba ire
Por ti sere, por ti sere.

Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba.
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