Introducing syncopation, stepping up from So to Do,
descending perfect fourth (P4), and keeping the steady
beat with a partner hand jive*, WHAT FUN!

 

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: USA – African American Clapping Song
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: AAaA
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) | ti ti (ta) |
• Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do
• Intervals: beginners: ascending Perfect Fourth (P4) So/Do
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; beamed eighth notes, pickup beat, stepping up the staff from the dominant (5, So) to the tonic (1, Do), descending perfect fourth Do\So, clapping a steady beat with a partner hand jive – NOTE: transfer vocal reading skills to fine motor skills on keyboard and recorder
• Key Words: USA history, African American History, rhyming words: mack/black/back, cents/fence, high/sky, July/lie; clapping song, hand jive, dressed, silver, buttons, mother, fifty, cows, jumped, 4th of July; York Alabama Version: river, cross, paid, five, dollars, grey horse, pull, swapped, holler/dollar, spend, grass, grow/hoe, chop/shop. money/honey, shop, bees, eat, meat, gnaw, bone, good-bye; contractions: couldn’t (could not), wouldn’t (would not), I’m (I am)
• Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together
• Recorder: beginners: color coded, excellent addition to the Beginning Recorder Songs, after song number one, stepping up from G to C, perfect fourth C\G, when playing C: intrument balance – left thumb and right hand fingers

* Includes hand jive directions.

“Miss Mary Mack” 

	1.	Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, All dressed in black, black, black, With silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back.
	2.	She asked her mother, mother, mother, For fifty cents, cents, cents, To see the cows, cows, cows, Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
	3.	They jumped so high, high, high, They reached the sky, sky, sky, And never came back, back, back, Till the fourth of July, lie, lie.
	York Alabama Version
	1.	Oh Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, All dressed in black, black, black, With silver buttons, buttons, buttons, Up and down her back, back, back.
	2.	I went to the river, river, river, And I couldn’t cross, cross, cross, And I paid five dollars, dollars, dollars, For he old grey horse, horse, horse.
	3.	And the horse wouldn’t pull, pull, pull, I swapped him for a bull, bull, bull, And the bull wouldn’t holler, holler, holler, I swapped him for a dollar, dollar, dollar.
	4.	And the dollar wouldn’t spend, spend, spend, I put it in the grass, grass, grass, And the grass wouldn’t grow, grow, grow, I got my hoe, hoe, hoe.
	5.	And the hoe wouldn’t chop, chop, chop, I took it to the shop, shop, shop, And the shop made money, money, money, Like the bees made honey, honey, honey.
	6.	Well, I eat meat, meat, meat, And I gnaw my bone, bone, bone, Well, good-bye honey, honey, honey, I’m going on home.

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Introducing the dotted eighth and sixteenth syncopation
and adding the tonic to the beginning Orff interval.

 

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: USA – 19th-century Nursery Rhyme
• Key: C Major

• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABAC
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
  | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So
• Intervals: beginners: Mi/So\Mi
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth, introducing sixteenth divisions, excellent for building from the beginning Orff interval, So\Mi to the tonal center, Do

• Key Words: USA history, American nursery rhyme, school days, farming, character education, fleece, white, snow, school, rule, laugh, play, eager, children, cry, teacher
• Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

A true story about children in Sterling, MA, USA, the original rhyme was first published by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830. The rhyme was also the very first words recorded in the history of recorded sound by Thomas Edison.

“Mary Had a Little Lamb”

	1.	Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, Whose fleece was white as snow.
	2.	And everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
	3.	It followed her to school one day School one day, school one day, It followed her to school one day, Which was against the rules.
	4.	It made the children laugh and play, Laugh and play, laugh and play, It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school.
	5.	And so the teacher turned it out, Turned it out, turned it out, And so the teacher turned it out, But still it lingered near.
	6.	And waited patiently about, Patiently about, patiently about, And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear.
	7.	“Why does the lamb love Mary so?” Love Mary so? Love Mary so? “Why does the lamb love Mary so,” The eager children cry.
	8.	“Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know.” The lamb, you know, the lamb, you know, “Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,” The teacher did reply.

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

 

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
• Key: D Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABAB
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
• Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
• Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; beginning Orff interval
• Key Words: world geography: England; nursery rhyme, locket, penny, lost, found, ribbon
• Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together

“Lucy Locket” 

Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it. Not a penny was there in it, Only ribbon round it.

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Introducing the sharp sixth, Li.

 

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: USA – Traditional
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABCD
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta (ta) ta |
  | ta/a (ta) ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Li Ti Do – raised 6th (Li)
• Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, Mi/So, So/Do, Ti\So, So/Ti
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, rest: quarter; raised/sharp sixth (Li)
• Key Words: hand jive tune, doctor, nurse, alligator, purse, throat, bathtub, swim, soap, followed, walked, lady, mumps, nothing, ate, named, tiny, called, water, coming, contractions: wouldn’t (would not), I’m (I am)

“Lucy”

		1.	Lucy had a baby, She named him Tiny Tim. She put him in the bathtub, To see if he could swim.
		2.	He drank up all the water. He ate up all the soap. He tried to eat the bathtub, But it wouldn’t go down his throat.
		3.	Lucy called the doctor. The doctor called the nurse. The nurse then called the lady With the alligator purse.
		4.	I’m here called out the doctor, I’m coming said the nurse, All followed by the lady With the alligator purse.
		5.	Mumps called out the doctor, Measles called out the nurse, But, nothing said the lady With the alligator purse.
		6.	So, out then walked the doctor, Then followed by the nurse, All followed by the lady With the alligator purse.

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Four part round concentrating on the intervals of the tonic triad
and introducing the dotted half note.

 

Description

• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme – Traditional Round
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABCD
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti |
  | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a/a (ta) |
• Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So Do
• Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, Do\So, So\Mi, So/Do – intervals of the tonic triad
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; vocal slur, singing in parts, reinforces descending perfect fourth, Do\So, singing in parts, advanced: four part round: each part begins when the previous section begins the second staff/line
• Key Words: world geography: England; clinker (hot ash or cinder), innocent, cry, sat, little, tinker, poor, guy

“Little Tommy Tinker” 

Little Tommy Tinker Sat upon a clinker And he began to cry: “Ma! Ma!” Poor little innocent guy.

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