One for the girls: four note ascending submediant arpeggio, syncopation, and an imperfect ending on the sixth, La.
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Folk Song American Revolutionary War
circa. 1875-1883
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ti ti ta ta/a |
| ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ti ti |
| ta/a ta/a |
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; fermata, imperfect ending: melody ends on the sixth (La) which is in keeping with the subject (imperfect endings do not end on the tonic, (1, Do), ascending submediant arpeggio, syncopation
Key Words: USA history, American Revolutionary War; world geography: tune has Irish (Ireland) origins; girlfriend’s lament, leaving for war, separated by war, Buttermilk Hill, blame, cry my fill, tear, mill, woe, soldier, rod and reel, spinning wheel, sword of steel, dye, dress, red, through, streets, beg, bread, lad, fled; contraction: I’ll (I will); abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
Recorder: intermediate: Excellent sixth (6th) tune following the Beginning Recorder Songs.
“Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier”
also known as “Buttermilk Hill”
1.
There I sat on Buttermilk Hill.
Who could blame me, cry my fill?
And ev’ry tear would turn a mill;
Johnny has gone for a soldier.
2.
Me, oh my, I loved him so:
Broke my heart to see him go,
And only time will heal my woe;
Johnny has gone for a soldier.
3.
I’ll sell my rod, I’ll sell my reel,
Likewise I’ll sell my spinning wheel,
And buy my love a sword of steel,
Johnny has gone for a soldier.
4.
I’ll dye my dress, I’ll dye it red,
And through the streets I’ll beg for bread,
For the lad that I love from me has fled,
Johnny has gone for a soldier.
Practicing a minor seventh, So/Fa,
and breath support for eight measure phrases.
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: France – 16th Century Carol (1553) – English translation early 1800’s
Key: F Major
Time: 3/8
Form: through composed
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti | ti ti ti | ta (ti) |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: advanced: So8\Do (P5), Re/So (P4), Do\So (P4), So/Fa (m7), So\Mi (m3) – begins and ends with the same interval So8\Do (P5)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, interval of a minor seventh (So/Fa, m7)
Key Words: world geography: France, French carol; sacred, Jesus birth, Mother Mary, mother of Jesus, torch, hurry, good folk, village, beautiful, son, gentle, mild, softly, sleeping, Angels, keeping watch; contraction: Mary’s (Mary is); abbreviation: Heav’n (Heaven), Christmas, holiday song
“Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella”
1.
Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella!
Bring a torch, come hurry and run!
Come and see him good folk in the village,
Jesus is born, and Mary’s calling;
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the mother,
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is her son.
2.
Come and see him, Jeanette, Isabella!
See the baby so gentle and mild.
Softly now for the baby is sleeping,
Angels in Heav’n, their watch are keeping,
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the mother,
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is her son.
Minor tonality, the sixth (La) is the tonal center in the major key, intervals of a perfect fourth (P4) and minor third (m3).
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: D minor (pitched in F Major)
Time: 2/2 – counted in 4/4
Form: Aa – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta ti ti |
| ta/a/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ti ta | syncopation
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, syncopation, minor tonality where the sixth (La) of the major scale is the tonal center, vocal slurs
Key Words: USA history, westward expansion, religious revivals of the 1800’s; world geography: Jordan, Canaan, Jordan River; Lord, sacred, song of Heaven, stormy, banks, cast, wishful, possessions, promised, bound, generous fruit, immortal, brooks, milk, honey, vales, soul, prepare, never-ending, everlasting, pleasures, praises, cease; possessives: Jordan’s, Canaan’s
“Bound for the Promised Land”
1.
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand
And cast a wishful eye,
To Canaan’s fair and happy land
Where my possessions lie.
Refrain:
I am bound for the promised land,
Bound for the promised land;
Oh, who will come and go with me,
I am bound for the promised land.
2.
There, generous fruits which never fail
On trees immortal grow,
There rocks and hills and brooks and vales
With milk and honey flow.
Refrain
3.
The Lord my soul will soon prepare
For never-ending peace,
Where everlasting pleasures roll
And praises never cease.
Straight and dotted syncopation within a melody
which has no leading tone.
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Folk Song, circa. 1920’s
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: phrases: ABACDEF – song: AB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ti ti |
| ta/a (ta) ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do – no leading tone: seventh (7, Ti)
Recorder: intermediate: alternating repeated pitches, four measure phrases
“Big Rock Candy Mountain”
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains*,
There’s a land that’s fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day.
Oh, I’m bound to go where there isn’t any snow,
Where the rain doesn’t fall and the wind doesn’t blow,
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Oh, the buzzin’ of the bees in the sycamore trees
Round the soda water fountain,
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Dotted quarter and dotted eight syncopation throughout,
melodic rhythm patterns, and a tonic arpeggio.
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – words: Julia Ward Howe, music: Traditional (1861)
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: phrases: ABACDE – song: AB, verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation, | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a (ta) |
| ta/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation | ta/a ta (ta) |
Recorder: intermediate: melody primarily moves by steps improving finger dexterity
Succour: assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.
Same tune as “John Brown’s Body.”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
1.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
2.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
His day is marching on.
Chorus
3.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.
Chorus
4.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Chorus
5.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Chorus
6.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
An art song for the very best readers!
Advanced syncopation with triplets, raised/natural tonic (Di),
sharped supper tonic (Ri), sharped subdominant (Fi),
and lowered mediant (Me).
Description
Grade: Fifth
Origin: Germany – Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Key: B flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ti ti | ta/a (ta/a) |
| ta/ ti ri ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta/a (ta) ta |
| ta/ ti ri ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti-ti-ti ti-ti-ti | triplet syncopation, | ta/a (ti)-ti-ti ti-ti-ti | triplet syncopation, | ta/ ti ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ta (ta) ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti/ ri ti-ti-ti | triplet syncopation, | ti ti ta (ta) ti ti |
| ti ta ti ti-ti-ti ti-ti-ti | triplet syncopation
Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Di Re RiMe Mi Fa Fi So – raised/natural tonic/one (Di, B), raised /sharped supertonic/two (Ri, D sharp), lowered/fat mediant/third (Me, D flat), raised/natural subdominant/fourth (Fi, E)
Key Words: world geography: Germany; music history, German composer: Franz Schubert; art song, language: Latin; “The Lady of the Lake,” Walter Scott, “Hymn to the Virgin,” sacred, Mother Mary, Mother of Jesus, Catholic prayer: “Hail Mary,”grace, Lord, Lord is with thee, blessed, fruit of thy womb, Jesus, Christ
Recorder: advanced: introducing C#, D#, E flat, F#; arpeggios: i (Bm), vi (Gm7), vii (Am)
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“Ave Maria”
Ave Maria gratia plena,
Maria gratia plena,
Maria gratia plena,
Ave, Ave Dominus,
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tui, Jesus.
Ave Maria!
Hail Mary, full of grace,
Mary, full of grace,
Mary, full of grace,
Hail, Hail, the Lord
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed,
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Thy womb, Jesus.
Ave Maria!
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; harmony, two parts, singing in parts, raised/sharped dominate (Si) – serves as a leading tone to the parallel major E, minor tonality where the sixth (La) is the tonal center
Origin: England/USA – Traditional/George A. Norton
Key: C Major
Time: 2/2 – counted in 4/4
Form: phrases: AaBa – song: AB, verse/refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/a | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation , | ta/a/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a/a ta | ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a/a/a | ta ti/ ri ta/a | syncopation
Key Words: world geography: England, USA; Puritan heritage, English Civil War (army wore yellow ribbons and yellow sashes onto the battlefield), wore, winter, summer, heck, lover, milking cows, mowing hay, golden locket, fire burning, heart, kisses sweet, saved; contraction: she’ll (she will) abbreviations: ’round (around), ev’ry (every) , it’s (it is)
Recorder: advanced: practicing the pitches of the C Major scale with a fast tempo, improving finger dexterity
“‘Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”
1.
‘Round her neck she wore a yellow ribbon,
She wore it in the winter and summer, so they say.
If you asked her why the heck she wore it?
She’ll say “It’s for my lover who is far, far away.”
Refrain:
Far away!
Far away!
If she is milking cows or mowing hay,
Around her neck she wears a yellow ribbon.
She wears it for her lover who is far, far away.
2.
‘Round her neck she wore a golden locket,
She wore it in the night time and wore it ev’ry day.
And if you asked her why the heck she wore it,
She’ll say it’s for my lover who is far, far away.
Refrain
3.
In her home she kept a fire burning,
She kept it fall and winter and in the month of May.
And if you asked her why the heck she kept it,
She’ll say it’s for my lover who is far, far away.
Refrain
4.
Saved her heart and saved her sweet kisses,
Saved them fall and winter and in the month of May.
And if you asked her why the heck she saved them,
She’ll say it’s for my lover who is far, far away.
Key Words: USA Army, USA military song, patriotic song, fight for the right, build, nation, might, proud, battle, won, hi hi hay, count, cadence, loud, strong, always; contraction: it’s (it is), where’er (where ever),
The official song of the United States Army; also known as “The Army Song.” (chorus/refrain) Tune originates from World War One: “The Caissons Go Rolling Along.”
“The Army Goes Rolling Along” “The Army Song”
Chorus
First to fight for the right,
And to build the Nation’s might,
And The Army Goes Rolling Along
Proud of all we have done,
Fighting till the battle’s won,
And the Army Goes Rolling Along.
Refrain:
Then it’s Hi! Hi! Hey!
The Army’s on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong.
For where e’er we go,
You will always know
That The Army Goes Rolling Along.
