Star Light, Star Bright

Introducing the submediant (sixth, La)
to the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD – variations on line one – So\Mi
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta ti ti | ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; running eighth notes, beginning Orff interval So\Mi, introducing the submediant (sixth, La)
Key Words: world geography: England; evening prayer, wishing, star, light, bright, night, might, may, tonight
Recorder: beginners: second tune in the color codedbeginning recorder songs for upper grades
Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

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Smithfield Mountain

Introducing a minor tonality, the minor third La/Do,
and the perfect fourth So/Do.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: A minor (pitched in C Major)
Time: 3/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a a |
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: La/Do, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, ascending minor third (La/Do), ascending perfect fourth (So/Do), minor tonality: were La of the major scale is the home pitch
Key Words: USA mountain song; dwell, handsome, Monday, meadow, mow, scarce, mowed, across, poison, serpent, heel, great, bit; contraction: don’t (do not); abbreviation: mornin’ (mourning)
Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together

**“Smithfield Mountain”**

	1.	On Smithfield Mountain there did dwell, A handsome youth I knew full well-ell-ell-ell-ell. Ri-tu-ri-lu-ri-la.

	2.	One Monday mornin’ he did go, Out to the meadow for to mow-ow-ow-ow-ow. Ri-tu-ri-lu-ri-la.

	3.	Scarce had he mowed across the field, A poison serpent bit his heel-eel-eel-eel-eel. Ri-tu-ri-lu-ri-la.

	4.	“Oh Mary Ann, oh, don’t you see, A great big serpent done bit me-me-me-me-me.” Ri-tu-ri-lu-ri-la.

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Sleep, Baby, Sleep

Introducing the minor seventh (m7) So/Fa
while extending the vocal range.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: Germany – Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ta (ti) ti | ti ti ta |
| ta/a |
Pitches: advanced: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: advanced: So/Mi, So/Fa (m7), Fa\Re, Re/So
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; running eighth notes, minor seventh So/Fa
Key Words: world geography: Germany; lullaby, sheep, dreams, dreamland, father, mother

1.Sleep, baby, sleep
Thy father tends the sheep.
Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree
And down come all the dreams for thee.
Sleep, baby, sleep

2.

Sleep, baby, sleep
Your cottage vale is deep.
The little lamb is on the green
With snowy fleece so soft and clean.
Sleep, baby, sleep

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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Dotted sixteenth note, syncopation, tonic arpeggio and octave skip.
This very old rhyme will require your very best readers!

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – 18th-century Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ta/ | ta ti ti ta/a | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/a |
| ri ti/ ti ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Ti\Re, Re\Ti, Ti/La, So\Do, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, dotted sixteenth, sixteenth; ascending tonic octave, running eighth notes, tonic arpeggio, extended vocal range
Key Words: world geography: England; nonsense rhyme, four, twenty, blackbirds, pie, dainty dish, king, counting house, money, queen, parlor (parlour – French), maid

Sixpence: known colloquially as the tanner, or half-shilling, a British pre-decimal coin, worth six pence, or 1/40th of a pound sterling.

1.Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

2.

When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Was not that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?

3.

The king was in the counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.

4.The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
A long came a blackbird
And snapped off her nose.

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Simple Simon

Minor key signature: the home pitch is the submediant
(6th, La) of the major scale.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England, Nursery Rhyme – 1764
Key: E minor (pitched in G Major)
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ti | syncopation | ta (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: Mi La Ti Do Re Mi Fa – extended range
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do\La, La\Mi, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter: minor mode, begins in the relative major
Key Words: world geography: England; paying for food, pie-man, fair, ware, penny, fishing, whale, pail, plums, thistle, pricked, whistle

**“Simple Simon”**

	1.	Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware.

	2.	Says the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any.

	3.	Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got, Was in his mother’s pail.

	4.	Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.

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‘Simmons

Introducing the half note and the
ascending perfect fourth interval So/Do (P4).

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA, Alabama – US Singing Game
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: So Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do\La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, half
Key Words: USA geography: Alabama; persimmons, farming, dancing, square dancing, left, right, circle, do-se-do

Persimmon: an edible fruit that resembles a large tomato and has very sweet flesh

**“‘Simmons”**
Circle left, do-oh, do-oh Circle left, do-oh, do-oh Circle left, do-oh, do-oh Shake them ‘simmons down. Circle right, do-oh, do-oh Circle right, do-oh, do-oh Circle right, do-oh, do-oh Shake them ‘simmons down. Round your partner, do-oh, do-oh Round your partner, do-oh, do-oh Round your partner, do-oh, do-oh Shake them ‘simmons down. Do-se-do, do-oh, do-oh Do-se-do, do-oh, do-oh Do-se-do, do-oh, do-oh Shake them ‘simmons down. Swing your partner, do-oh, do-oh Swing your partner, do-oh, do-oh Swing your partner, do-oh, do-oh Shake them ‘simmons down. pronounced with long o as in Do Re Mi.

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Scotland’s Burning

Two part round practicing the perfect fourth
So/Do\So (P4), and a dominant octave skip.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: Traditional Round
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do\So, Mi/So, Mi/Do, So\So descending dominant octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; two part round, ascending and descending perfect fourth So/Do\So, descending dominant octave skip So\So, singing in parts, harmony
Key Words: geography, putting out fires, Scotland, exclamation, pour

**“Scotland’s Burning”**
Scotland’s burning, Scotland’s burning! Look out, look out, Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Pour on water, pour on water.

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Sandy McNab

Introducing rounds while reinforcing pitches and
intervals of the tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: Traditional Round
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi/So8, Mi\So
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; three part round, pickup beat, singing alone and with others, dominant to tonic interval (So/Do) perfect fourth (P4), practicing the intervals of the tonic arpeggio
Key Words: round, fellow, crab, carried, home, cab

**“Sandy McNab”**
There was an old fellow named Sandy McNab, Who had for his supper a very fine crab, And had to be carried home in a cab.

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Four part round with advanced syncopated rhythms in 6/8 time.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ta/ | ta ti ta/ |
syncopation, | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, |
| ta/_ti (ti ti) | ta/_ta/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti | (_=tie)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So (repeated pitches of a descending tonic arpeggio)
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, four part round, singing alone and with others, singing in parts, 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 geography: England; row, boat, gently, stream, merrily, dream, camp song, scout song

Partner song: “Freres Jacues!”

**“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”**
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.

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Rover

Adding the submediant (sixth, La)
to the beginning Orff interval (So\Mi).

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Old Rhyme
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AaAa
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So – beginning Orff interval
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; beginning Orff interval, variations of the first line
Key Words: world geography: England; dog, ran, name, all over, right over, rolled, abbreviation: ev’ry (every)Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for the right, left and two hands together