Practicing a vocal slur, adding tied notes,
and feeling syncopation in 6/8 time.
Description
- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: England – 19th-century Nursery Rhyme
- Key: F Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta/a/ ti | syncopation,
| ta/a/ (ti) | - Intervals: intermediate: So\Re, Re\Ti, Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Mi\So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes (tie = plus sign (+) in math), vocal slur, 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 time
- Key Words: world geography: England; cat, fiddle, cow, jumped, moon, dog, sport, dish, ran spoon, laughed