The Farmer in the Dell

Reinforcing tonic intervals.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: German Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AABA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ta/_a ti |
| ta/_a (ti) | ta/ ta ti |
Pitches: beginners: So Do Re Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So/Do, Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth; pickup beat, tied notes
Key Words: farming, Germany, singing game, animals

Game Instructions: Nine children join hands and dance around the farmer, who stands in the center of the circle as they sing. At the end of the first verse, the farmer chooses his wife, who joins him inside the circle. At the end of the next verse, the wife takes a child, another child is chosen to stand in the middle until the last verse when everyone is in the circle except the cheese, who stands alone.

If you have more than 10 children, you will have more than one Cheese at the end. The teacher can randomly pick one to be the Farmer in the next round.

**“The Farmer in the Dell”**

		1.	The farmer in the dell, The farmer in the dell, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The farmer in the dell.

		2.	The farmer takes a wife, The farmer takes a wife, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The farmer takes a wife.

		3.	The wife takes a child, The wife takes a child, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The wife takes a child.

		4.	The child takes a nurse, The child takes a nurse, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The child takes a nurse.

		5.	The nurse takes a cow, The nurse takes a cow, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The nurse takes a cow.

		6.	The cow takes a dog, The cow takes a dog, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The cow takes a dog.

		7.	The dog takes a cat, The dog takes a cat, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The dog takes a cat.

		8.	The cat takes a rat, The cat takes a rat, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The cat takes a rat.

		9.	The rat takes a cheese, The rat takes a cheese, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The rat takes a cheese.

		10.	The cheese stands alone, The cheese stands alone, Hi-ho, the derry-o, The cheese stands alone.

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Farewell, Spanish Ladies

Sharped subdominant (Fi, F#) and dominate (Si, G#),
and a mediant octave skip (Mi/Mi) in A minor.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: England – Sea Chantey*
Key: A minor (pitched in C Major)
Time: 3/4
Form: phrases: AaBC – song: AA – verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a ta | ti ti ta ti/ ri | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Mi Fi Si La Ti Do Re Mi – raised/sharp subdominant (Fi), raised/sharp dominate (Si) functions as the leading tone for the parallel major (A Major)
Intervals: advanced: Mi/La (P4), La\Si/La (m2),
Si\Mi (M3), La/Re (P4), Ti/Mi (P4), Mi\La (P5), Ti\Si(M3), Si\Fi (M2), Fi\Mi (M2), Mi/Mi8 ascending mediate octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, sharp subdominant (Fi, F#), sharp dominate (Si, G#), tempo: allegretto/moderately fast (98-109 BPM); note: melody moves between A minor and its parallel major, A Major
Key Words: world geography: Spain, England, Downs, Dodman, Rame Head, Plymouth, Start, Portland, Wight, Beachy, Fairlight, Dover (Dungeness), South Foreland, Ushant, Scilly; French word: adieu (long goodbye); ladies, received, Old England, short-time, rant, roar, British sailors, salt sea, strike surrounding, English Channel, sea leagues, hove (past of heave), ship, deep soundings, fathoms, squared the main yard, bore up; contractions: we’ll (we will), ’twas (it was); abbreviation: sou’west (southwest)
Recorder: advanced: introducing F# and G#, played in a minor tonality

*Describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs.

**“Farewell, Spanish Ladies”**

	1.	Farewell and adieu to you all, Spanish ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain; For we’ve received order to sail for Old England, But we hope in a short-time to see you again.
		Chorus:
		We will rant and we’ll roar like true British sailors, We’ll rant and we’ll roar all on the salt sea. Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England; From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.
	2.	We hove our ship to the wind from sou’west, boys We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take; ‘Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom, So we squared our main yard and up channel did make.
		Chorus
	3.	The first land we sighted was called the Dodman, Next Rame Head off Plymouth, off Portsmouth the Wight; We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover, And then we bore up for the South Foreland light.
		Chorus

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Fairy Dance

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Playtime

Introducing 3/8 time.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: F Major
Time: 3/8
Form: ABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti | ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, So\Mi, Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Re/Fa, So\Ti, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; tempo: allegro grazioso/fast, gracefully (109-132 BPM), poco ritardando; dynamics: mezzo piano/medium soft, mezzo forte/medium loud, crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: play songs, fairy, make-believe, sprightly, lightly, folk, flow’ry (flowery), heather, merrily, together, dance

**“Fairy Dance”**
Young and sprightly, Treading lightly, Fairy folk on the flow’ry heather, Dance we merrily here together.

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Ev’rybody’s Welcome

Skipping dotted eighth rhythms contrasted with straight eighths.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Tennessee, USA – Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri t/ ri | ta ti ti |
| ta ta | ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, So\Mi, Mi/So, So\Do, Do\La, So/So ascending dominate octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; vocal slur, ascending dominate octave skip; note: last staff is a combination of the third and second staves
Key Words: sacred/secular, welcome song, Tennessee, hallelujah; abbreviation: ev’rybody’s (everybody is)

**“Ev’rybody’s Welcome”**
Ev’rebody’s welcome, yes, yes, welcome! Ev’rybody’s welcome, come along and go. Oh, glory hallelujah! Oh, glory, come along and go.

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Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit

"Ev'ry Time I Fell the Spirit," Lyrics, Text Format

Advanced syncopation, extended pentatonic scale,
and a descending tonic arpeggio with a sixth (I6, Eb6).

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta/ ta ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ta/a (ti) ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a (ti) ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La Do – extended pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do8\La8/Do8 (m3),
Do8\La8\So8\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio w/sixth (I6, Eb6), La/Do (m3), Do/Mi (M3), Mi\So(M6), Do/So (P5), So\Mi (m3)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; syncopated pickup beat, tied notes, syncopation, tonic arpeggio w/sixth, pentatonic scale, refrain/verse/refrain; tempo: moderately
Key Words: USA history, African American History, sacred, spirit, heart, pray, mountain, spoke, bible story, mouth, fire, smoke, Lord, sorrows, woe, heartache, God, leads, fear, sheltered, care; contraction: I’ll (I will); abbreviation: ev’ry (every), movin’ (moving); note: capitalization of the possessive pronoun: His

**“Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit”**

			Refrain:
			Ev’ry time I fell the spirit Movin’ in my heart, I will pray. Ev’ry time I fell the spirit Movin’ in my heart, I will pray.
		1.	Upon the mountain, when my Lord spoke Out of his mouth came fire and smoke; Looked all around me, It looked so fine, I asked the Lord if all were mine.
			Refrain
		2.	Oh, I have sorrows, and I have woe, And I have heartache here below; But while God leads me, I’ll never fear, For I am sheltered by His care.
			Refrain

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Everybody Loves Saturday Night

Advanced syncopation, tied sixteenth notes, and a sixteenth rest.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: West Africa Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABa
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti | ti/ ti ri ti | syncopation, | (ri) ti ri ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do (M3), Mi/So (m3)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: whole, quarter, sixteenth;syncopation, melodic rhythm patterns, tied notes
Key Words: world geography: West Africa, Nigeria, France, China, Russia, Czech Republic, Spain, Israel, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Denmark; curfew protest song, camp song; abbreviation: ev’rybody (everybody)
Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for the left and right hand

**“Everybody Loves Saturday Night”**

	1.	Ev’rybody loves Saturday night. Ev’rybody loves Saturday night. Ev’rybody, ev’rybody, ev’rybody, Ev’rybody loves Saturday night.

		(Nigeria) Bobowaro fero Satodeh.

		(France) Tout le monde aime Samedi soir.

		(China) Ren ten si huan li pai lu.

		(Russia) Vsiem nravitsa sabbota vietcheram.

		(Czech Republic) Razhdi ma rad sabotu vietcher.

		(Spanish) A todos les gusta la noche del Sabado.

		(Yiddish) Jeder eyne hot lieb Shabas ba nacht.

		(Italian) Tutti ama Sabato sera.

		(German) Eider man hat dem Samstag abend.

		(Portuguese) Todas gostan dos Sabados noite.

		(Danish) Alle elsker Lordag asften.

		(Norwegian) Alle elsker Lordag kveld.

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Evening Prayer

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At Home

A children’s prayer before bedtime.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
| ta/a ta/a | ta/a/a |
Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/La, La\Fa, Re/So, Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; tempo: andante con moto/walking pace with motion (73-77 BPM), pickup beat; dynamics: mezzo piano/medium soft, crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: sacred, prayer, children’s prayer, earth science, heav’nly (heavenly), flow’rs (flowers), morning, God (Father), safety

**“Evening Prayer”**

		1.	The great round sun is gone, The night is near; Oh! Heav’nly Father, bless Thy children here.

		2.	The silent little birds And folded flow’rs Are sweetly sleeping now, Till morning hours.

		3.	We little children, too, May sweetly sleep; For God, our Father, will In safety keep.

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Erie Canal

Advanced syncopation, repeated melodic rhythm patterns,
and a natural subdominant (Fi).

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Thomas S. Allen, 1905
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/chorus
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ta/ ta ta | syncopation,
| ti ta/ ta/a | syncopation, | ti ta/ ta ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta/ ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ta/ ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta/ ta | syncopation, | ta ta ta ta | ta ti ti ta ta |
| ta ti ta/ ti ti | syncopation, | ta/a ta/a |
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/a | syncopation, | ta/a ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa Fi So – natural/raised subdominant (Fi, B)
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\La (P5), La/Do (m3), Do\La (m3), La/Mi (P5), Mi/So8\Mi (m3), Mi\Do/Mi (M3), So/Mi (M6), So\Fi/So (m2), So\Fa (M2), Fa\Re (m3), Re/So8 (P4), Do/Fa (P4)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, tied notes, syncopation, natural sign, raised subdominant (Fi), fermatas, verse/chorus, repeated melodic rhythm patterns
Key Words: USA history, USA geography: New York, Albany, NY, Hudson River, Buffalo, NY, Rome, NY, Erie Canal; mule power to engine power, recalling history of the Erie Canal, mule power, lumbar, coal, hay, barge hauling, inch, town, neighbor, pal, navigated, canal lock, trip, miles; contractions: we’ve (we have), you’ve (you have), I’ve (I have), I’d (I would); abbreviations: ev’ry (every), ev’rybody (everybody), ’bout (about)

“Erie Canal”
also know as
“Low Bridge”

		1.	I’ve got a mule her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. She’s a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. We’ve hauled some barges in our day Filled with lumber coal and hay And ev’ry inch of the way I know From Albany to Buffalo.
			Chorus:
			Low bridge, everybody down,* Low bridge, cause we’re coming to a town! You can always tell your neighbor Can always tell your pal, If you’ve ever navigated on the Erie Canal
		2.	We better get along on our way, old gal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. Cause you bet your life I’d never part with Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. Git up there, mule, here comes a lock, We’ll make Rome ’bout six o’clock. One more trip and back we’ll go Right back home to Buffalo.
			Chorus:
			Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, cause we’re coming to a town! You can always tell your neighbor Can always tell your pal, If you’ve ever navigated on the Erie Canal

			*Low bridges would require boat and barge workers to get down out of the way.

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Engine, Engine, Number Nine

Excellent beginning tune for non-readers!
Excellent for beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: AAAA – pitches: AAAb
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; simple rhythms, introduce/reinforce beginning Orff interval, So\Mi
Key Words: rhyming words: nine, line, track, back – vocabulary: engine, train, railroad, money
Keyboard: beginners: two finger exercise for the right, left, and, two hands together

**“Engine, Engine, Number Nine”**
Engine, engine number nine, Going down the railroad line! If the train goes off the track, Will I get my money back?

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Eh Soom Boo Kawaya

Excellent introduction to syncopation!

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Nigeria
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti ta ta |
| ti ta ti ta (ti) ti | ta/a ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginners: So/Do, Do\La
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; syncopation, pickup beat
Key Words: Nigeria, geography, tribal chant

**“Eh Soom Boo Kawaya”**
Eh soom boo kawaya kedou, kadee. Eh soom boo kawaya kedou, kadee. Kedou, kedou, kedou, kadee. Eh soom boo kawaya kedou, kadee.

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