The Hunters of Kentucky

Syncopation, tonic arpeggios, and an interval of a minor seventh (m7).

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Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Samuel Woodworth, 1821
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | running eighth notes | ta/ ti ti ti (ti) ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ti ti ti ti (ta) | ti ti ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: advanced: So8\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, G), Do\So (P4), So/Do-Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio (I,G), Mi/So8 (m3), Fa\Re/Fa (m3), Do\La (m3), So/Fa (m7), Re/So8 (P4), So8\Ti (m6)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, verse/refrain, tonic arpeggios, running eighth notes, syncopation
Key Words: USA; Kentucky, New Orleans; gentlemen, grace, rehearse, ditty, opportunity, conceive, hardy, freeborn, race, stranger, chase, despising toil, danger, daring, foe, annoys, alligator horses, attempted, wince, schemes, repented, rifles, occasion, hue, sooty, brags, cotton bags, spite, greater, half a horse, half an alligator, vain, booty, wisely, danger, protect; Old English: Ye (you); contractions: ’tis (it is), we’ll (we will), you’ve (you have), there’s (there is), he’d (he would), ’twas (it was); abbreviations: e’er (ever), s’pose (suppose), cock’d (cocked), flock’d (flocked), fam’d (famed), ev’ry (every), wish’d (wished)
Recorder: intermediate: playing in G major, introducing F#, tonic arpeggios, syncopation

Packenham: Sir Edward Pakenham (1778–1815) Anglo-Irish Army Officer and Politician
Old Hickory Jackson: Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837)

**“The Hunters of Kentucky”**

	1.	Ye gentlemen and ladies fair who grace the famous city, Just listen if you’ve time to spare, while I rehearse a ditty; And for an opportunity, conceive yourselves quite lucky, For ’tis not often here you see a hunter from Kentucky.
		Refrain:
		Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky, Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky,
	2.	We are a hardy freeborn race, each man to fear a stranger. What e’er the game, we join the chase, despising toil and danger, And if a daring foe annoys, what e’er his strength and forces, We’ll show him that Kentucky boys are “alligator horses.”
		Refrain
	3.	I s’pose you’ve read it in the prints how Pakenham attempted To make Old Hick’ry Jackson wince, but soon his schemes repented; For we with rifles ready cock’d through such occasion lucky, And soon around the hero flock’d the hunters of Kentucky.
		Refrain
	4.	You’ve herd I s’pose how New Orleans is fam’d for wealth and beauty, There’s girls of ev’ry hue it seems, from snowy white to sooty; So Pakenham he made his brags, if he in fight was lucky, He’d have their girls and cotton bags, in spite of old Kentucky.
		Refrain
	5.	A bank was raised to hide ourselves, not that we thought of dying, But that we always like to rest, unless the game is flying; Behind it stood our little force-none wish’d it to be greater, For ev’ry man was half a horse and half an alligator.
		Refrain
	6.	They found at last ’twas vain to fight, where lead was all their booty, And so they wisely took a flight and left us all our beauty; And now if danger e’er annoys, remember what our trade is; Just send for us Kentucky boys, and we’ll protect you, ladies.
		Refrain

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Humpty Dumpty

Teaching the dotted quarter note and syncopation in 6/8 time,
while singing two perfect fourths (P4) Do/Fa and Mi/La.

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Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AABB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La, Do/Fa, Fa\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighths; 6/8 time: counting eighth notes, eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8
Key Words: world geography: England; rhyming words: wall/fall, King’s men/again; horses, together; contraction: couldn’t (could not); possessive: King’s

**“Humpty Dumpty”**
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

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Hot Cross Buns

Each format includes questions about the musical elements of this tune, promoting student observation and greater retention.

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Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eight;: rest: quarter; discovering form in music
Key Words: world geography: England; pastries, penny, one, two, fresh, sweet, sons, daughters, baking, cooking
Recorder: beginners: A-G-F, three note exercise
Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left and right hand. Pitch Number format may be used for right hand fingering.

Partner song: “Bow, Wow, Wow!”

**“Hot Cross Buns”**

		1.	Hot cross buns, Hot cross buns, One a penny, Two a penny, Hot cross buns.

		2.	Fresh, sweet buns, Fresh, sweet buns, One a penny, Two a penny, Fresh, sweet buns.

		3.	Hot, sweet buns, Hot, sweet buns, All your daughters, All your sons, All love buns

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Hop Old Squirrel

Introducing the first three pitches of the scale, eighth notes,
and, the major third Do/Mi.

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Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Virginia, Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAb
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) | ti ti ta|
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; stepping from Mi down to Do, singing a major third Do/Mi
Key Words: USA geography: Virginia; squirrel, non-sense words, hop a steady beat to the music
Recorder: beginners: additional practice for B-A-G, following the first beginning recorder selection
Keyboard: beginners: a great beginning keyboard tune, for each hand, and both hands together

**“Hop Old Squirrel”**
Hop, old squirrel, Eidle dum, eidle dum, Hop, old squirrel, Eidle dum, dee! Hop, old squirrel, Eidle dum, eidle dum, Hop, old squirrel, Eidle dum, dee!

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Hop Up and Jump Up

Mastering the intervals of the tonic arpeggio,
with ascending and descending arpeggios and four
examples of syncopation with a very quick tempo.

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Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Shaker Song
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: ABCD – pitches: ABCb
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation
| ti ti ti ti | ti ri ti ti ri ti | syncopation,
| ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ri ti ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do\La, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: eighth, sixteenth; tempo: (BPM 152), arpeggios, octave
Key Words: USA history, Shaker religion, USA geography: New York, sacred, Shaker dance song, jump, whirl, gather love, flowing, catch, reach high and low, reach down; abbreviation: ’round (around)
Recorder: Advanced: mastering intervals of the tonic triad including ascending and descending arpeggios
Keyboard: Advanced: mastering intervals of the tonic triad, including ascending and descending arpeggios; right, left and two hands together

**“Hop Up and Jump Up”**
Hop up and jump and whirl ’round, whirl ’round, Gather love, here it is all ’round, all ’round, Here is love flowing ’round, catch it as you whirl ’round, Reach up high and reach down, here it is a ’round. Movements: Divide class into two groups. First group moves during the first two lines; second group moves to the last two lines. Each group will hop up, jump, turn around and around, then sit; the second group adds reaching up high and down before sitting.

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Home on the Range

Syncopation on the second half of the second and third beats
(and of 2, and of 3), with intermediate intervals La/Fa and Mi\So.

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Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: phrases: AaBa – song: AB, verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti |
| ta ta ta | ta/a/a | ta/ ti ta | syncopation,
| ta ta/ ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Mi\Do, La/Fa, So\Do, Re\So, Do/So, Mi\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; syncopation, pickup beat, two double barlines, tied notes, ending a phrase of the second (Re)
Key Words: USA history, western expansion, cowboy song, earth science, life on the plains, buffalo, roam, antelope, seldom, discouraging, skies, cloudy, range, diamond sand, leisurely, stream, graceful, white swan, gliding, maid, heavenly, dream, pure air, zephyrs (light breezes), balmy, exchange, cities, heavens, glittering stars, amazed, glazed, glory, exceeds

**“Home on the Range”**

	1.	Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the dear and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
		Chorus:
		Home, home on the range, Where the dear and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
	2.	Oh, give me some land where the bright diamond sand, Flows leisurely down the stream; Where the graceful white swan, goes gliding along, Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
		Chorus
	3.	Where the air is so pure and the zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and bright; That I would not exchange my home on the range, For all of the cities so bright.
		Chorus
	4.	How often at night when the heavens are bright, With the light of the glittering stars, Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed, If their glory exceeds that of ours?
		Chorus

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The Holly and the Ivy

Beginning syncopation and intervals
and a melody without a leading tone.

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Grade: Fifth
Origin: England – Traditional
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta | ta ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a ti ti | ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta |
| ta/a (ti) ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: beginners: Do/La8 (M6), Mi\Do (m3), Do/Mi (M3), Mi\La (P5), So/Do (P4)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, fermata, syncopation, vocal slur
Key Words: world geography: England; seasonal song, holiday season, Christmas carol, sacred, grown, trees, bears, crown, rising sun, running deer, merry organ, singing choir, blossom, lily, Mary, mother of Jesus, Jesus Christ, birth of Jesus, saviour, berry, poor sinners, prickle, sharp thorn, Christmas Day, morn, bark, bitter gall, redeem, abbreviation: flow’rs (flower)
Recorder: intermediate: introducing B flat

**“The Holly and the Ivy”**

		1.	The holly and the ivy, When they are both full grown, Of all trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown.
			Refrain:
			O, the rising of the sun, And the running of the deer, The playing of the merry organ, Sweet singing in the choir.
		2.	The holly bears a blossom, As white as lily flow’rs, And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ, To be our dear Saviour.
			Refrain
		3.	The holly bears a berry, As red as any blood, And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ To do poor sinners good.
			Refrain
		4.	The holly bears a prickle, As sharp as any thorn, And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ, On Christmas Day in the morn.
			Refrain
		5.	The holly bears a bark, As bitter as the gall, And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ, For to redeem us all.
			Refrain
		6.	The holly and the ivy , Now both are full well grown, Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown.
			Refrain

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Hold On!

Ascending minor tonic arpeggio, a sharped dominate (Si, which functions as a 7th to the parallel D Major) and an advanced
interval Mi/Si, a very distinctive interval in D minor.

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Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: D minor – pitched in F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a | ti ti ti ta/a/ | syncopation,
| ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a | ta ta/a/a | (_ = tied note)
| ta/a/a/a_|_a/a/a ta | _ta/a ti ti ti ti | ta/a (ta) ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi So Si La – raised/sharped dominate (Si)
Intervals: advanced: La/Do/Mi ascending minor tonic arpeggio (Dm), Do\La, Mi/Si, Mi/La, So\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, pitches held for seven and six beats; note the variations in rhythm using the same pitches, measures 2 and 4
Key Words: USA history, African American history, African American Spiritual, sacred, work song, Farming with a plow, tire, farming rows, higher and higher, stays, lead, straight, heaven, promised land, contractions: I’ll (I will), abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
Recorder: intermediate: introducing C# and practicing the ascending tonic arpeggio, Dm

**“Hold On!”**

	1.	If you want to get to heaven, I’ll tell you how, Keep your hand right on that plow .
		Refrain:
		Keep you hand on that plow, Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, Keep your hand right on that plow, Hold on.
	2.	Keep on plowing and don’t you tire, Ev’ry row goes higher and higher.
		Refrain
	3.	If that plow stays in your hand, Lead you straight to the promised land.
		Refrain

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Hold My Mule

Extending the pentatonic range.

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Grade: First
Origin: African American Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: AAAB – pitch: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, So\Do, Do\La, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, eighth, extending the vocal range, pentatonic pitches, running eighth notes
Key Words: mule, nonsense song

**“Hold My Mule”**
Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Hold my mule while I dance Josey, Oh, Miss Susan Brown.

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Hokey Pokey

Intermediate syncopation while adding body movements to music.

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Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Florida, Play-Party Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ ta | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: So/Do, Do\So, So/Ti
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beats; syncopation, repeated melodic rhythm patterns
Key Words: USA, Florida; playground song, camp song, party song, learning left from right, learning body parts, physical science: foot, hand, shoulder, hip, whole self, yourself; all about, about; contraction: that’s (that is)
Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for left, right, and two hands together

**“Hokey Pokey”**

	1.	You put your right foot in, You take your right foot out, You put your right foot in, And you shake it all about, You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	2.	You put your left foot in, You put your left foot out, You put your left foot in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	3.	You put your right hand in, You put your right hand out, You put your right hand in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	4.	You put your left hand in, You put your left hand out, You put your left hand in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	5.	You put your right shoulder in, You put your right shoulder out, You put your right shoulder in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	6.	You put your left shoulder in, You put your left shoulder out, You put your left shoulder in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	7.	You put your right hip in, You put your right hip out, You put your right hip in And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	8.	You put your left hip in, You put your left hip out, You put your left hip in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

	9.	You put your whole self in, You put your whole self out, You put your whole self in, And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about.

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