Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Introducing 6/8 time, counting syncopated eighth notes, descending tonic arpeggio, and feeling duple meter in 6/8.

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Grade: First
Origin: Traditional English Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AABC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
| ta/_a/ | (_=tie)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So, So/Do8, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (triad)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, 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: English rhyme, animal science, rooster call, barnyard animals, master, fiddling stick (bow), dame (wife), shoe, dance, without; contraction: doesn’t (does not); possessive: master’s

**“Cock-A-Doodle-Doo”**
Cock-a-doodle-doo! My dame has lost her shoe, My master’s lost his fiddling stick, And doesn’t know what to do. Cock-a-doodle-doo! What is my dame to do? Till master find his fiddling stick, She’ll dance without her shoes.

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Cobbler, Cobbler

Introducing half beats with eighth note divisions.

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Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: Non-Pitched
Time: 2/4
Form: by staff: AAAAAA – by phrase: AAA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: none
Intervals: none
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; eighth note divisions, form by line; by phrase
Key Words: world geography: England; time of day, rhyming words, cobbler, shoe, half, two, eight, stitch, up, down, crown (money)

Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe.
Get it done by half past two
Half past two is much too late!
Get it done by half past eight.
Stitch it up, and stitch it down,
And I’ll give you half a crown.

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Clocks – NEW

Excellent practice for reading/practicing the divisions of the beat into halves and quarters.

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• Grade: First (1)

• Origin: Traditional

• Key: C Major

• Time: 2/4

• Form: ABCD

• Rhythm: beginning: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ti ri ti ri ti ri ti ri |

• Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi So Do

• Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do (M3), Mi/So So\Mi (m3), So/Do (P4)

• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: none; excellent practice for reading/practicing the divisions of the beat into halves and quarters.

• Key Words: Clock sounds, tick tock, tick, tocky, marking time, measuring time

**“Clocks”**
Big clock mark time slowly, tick-tock, tick-tock, Small clocks mark time faster, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock And little watches mark time ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky, ticky-tocky.

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Clap Your Hands

Practicing a steady beat with body movements,
introducing the perfect fifth (P5) Do/So.

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Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta| ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: Do/So, Mi\Do, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; clapping steady beat
Key Words: clap, hands, shake, roll, flap, pat, knees

**“Clap Your Hands”**

		1.	Clap, clap, clap your hands, Clap your hands together. Clap, clap, clap your hands, Clap your hands together.

		2.	Shake, shake, shake your hands, Shake you hands together. Shake, shake, shake your hands, Shake your hands together.

		3.	Roll, roll, roll your hands, Roll your hands together. Roll, roll, roll your hands, Role your hands together.

		4.	Flap, flap, flap your hands, Flap your hands together. Flap, flap, flap your hands, Flap your hands together.

		5.	Pat, pat, pat your knees, Pat your hands together. Pat, pat, pat your hands, Pat your hands together.

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Circle ‘Round the Zero

Extending the vocal range with a circle game song.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional Playground Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti (ta) |
| ta ta ti ti (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale, more than an octave range
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do8, Do8\So, So\Mi, Mi/Do, Do\La, La/Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, each fourth beat is a quarter rest
Key Words: playground song, circle game, front, back, side, zero; abbreviations: ’round (around), lovin’ (loving)

**“Circle ‘Round the Zero”**
Circle ’round the zero, Find your lovin’ zero, Back, back zero, Side, side zero, Front, front zero, Tap your lovin’ zero.

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Cindy

Excellent for assessing grade level beginning reading skills.

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Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA, North Carolina – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta |
| ta/a/a ta | ta/a ti ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ti ti ta ta
| ta ta/a ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi (m3), Do/So8 (P5), Mi/So (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Do\La/Do (m3), Do\So/Do (P5); distinguishing between the minor third (m3) Do\La/Do and the perfect fourth (P4, Do\So/Do)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, straight and dotted syncopation, pentatonic scale, verse/refrain
Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Appalachia, North Carolina, mountain music, courting song, love song, apple, passed, bite, along, needle, sew, fine, coat tails, road, ought, down south, sweet, honeybees, swarm, shapped, parlor, coolded, mortal man, mouth; abbreviations: hangin’ (hanging), ev’ry (every), contractions: she’d (she would), I’d (I would) pret’ist (prettiest), that’s (that is)
Recorder: intermediate: syncopated repeated pitches

**“Cindy”**

	1.	I wish I was an apple, A hangin’ from a tree, And ev’ry time my Cindy passed, She’d take a bite of me.
		Refrain:
		Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, I’ll marry you some day.
	2.	I wish I had a needle, As fine as I could sew, I’d sew that gal to my coat tails And down the road I’d go.
		Refrain
	3.	You ought to see my Cindy, She live away down south, She’s so sweet the honeybees All swarm around her mouth.
		Refrain
	4.	She took me to her parlor, She cooled me with her fan, She said I was the pret’ist thing That’s shaped like mortal man.
		Refrain

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Christmas Time is Coming

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Times and Seasons

Intermediate level Christmas tune.

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Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta ti |
| ta/_a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\La, La\Fa, Mi/So, So\Mi, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth; tempo: merrily; dynamics: mezzo forte/medium loud, crescendo, decrescendo, tie
Key Words: sacred, Christmas, holiday songs, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, sleigh, piled, toys, candies, leaf, feather, windy weather, whirl, twirl, sink

**“Christmas Time is Coming”**

		1.	Christmas time is coming, tra-la! And happy we shall be When we hang our stockings, tra-la! And see the Christmas tree.

		2.	Santa Claus is coming, tra-la! And high his sleigh is piled Full of toys and candies, tra-la! To please each little child.

		3.	Like a leaf or feather In the windy, windy weather, We will whirl about and twirl about, Then all sink down here.

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Christmas Is Coming

Tonic and dominate octave skips, syncopation, and tonic arpeggios will challenge you best readers.

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Grade: Second
Origin: English Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCaBC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) | ti/ ri ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: Do\So, So/Do, Do\Do descending tonic octave skip, Mi\Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do\So\Mi ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Do, vocal slur
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; tonic and dominate octave skips, tonic arpeggios, syncopation
Key Words: sacred, holiday season, Christmas, giving season, God, goose, penny, please, getting; abbreviation: haven’t (have not), possessive: man’s, contraction: ha’penny (half penny)

**“Christmas Is Coming”**
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. Please to put a penny in an old man’s hat. Please to put a penny in an old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny then God bless you. If you haven’t got a ha’penny then God bless you.

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Choosing a Flower

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
In the Garden

Each format includes instructional questions
for greater understanding.

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Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: D Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ta/a ti ti |
|ta ti ta_ ti ti | ta/a (ti) (ti) | (_=fermata)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Fa/Do, Do\Mi, Fa\Re, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth; tempo: allegretto; dynamics: mezzo forte/medium loud, crescendo, decrescendo; fermata, repeat
Key Words: gardening, earth science, pansy, lily, tulip, flow’rs (flowers), choice

**“Choosing a Flower”**
If among the garden flow’rs A choice I had to make, I would look a this, I would look at that, But a pansy I would take. If among the garden flow’rs A choice I had to make, I would look a this, I would look at that, But a lily I would take. If among the garden flow’rs A choice I had to make, I would look a this, I would look at that, But a tulip I would take.

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Chirpings

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
With the Birds

Excellent for introducing 6/8 meter.

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Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AaBAaBC
Rhythm: intermediate: ti | ta ti ta ti | rhythm pattern: (6 | 1/2 3 4/5 |) | ta/a ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Re, So\Do, Do/Mi, Do\So, So/Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; Tempo: moderato; dynamics: piano/soft, crescendo, decrescendo; pickup beat, horizontal accent mark
Key Words: animal science, Mother’s day, Father’s Day, swallow, chirp, bird sounds, art, o’re (over), children, repeat

The Horizontal Accent: “accent mark” – when you see an accent sign over or under a note you should play that note louder.

**“Chirpings”**

		1.	The baby swallow chirps “Chee-chee!” And only chirps no song has he But “chip! chip chip! chip chee!” And yet that chirp is sweet and dear To parents birds that hover near, “Chip chip! chip chip! chip chee. Chip chip! chip chip! chip chee!”

		2.	Like birds that have but little art, And yet can please the parents’ heart With “chip! chip chip! chip chee,” We children o’er and o’er repeat Our simple chirp with meaning sweet “We love you, Mother dear, We love you father dear.”

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