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"Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" Lyrics, Text Format


A very old rhyme for your best readers!
Advanced rhythms, pitches, and intervals
create a very challenging composition.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation, | ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti ti |
    syncopation, | ti/ ri ti ti ti ri | syncopation, | ta/ (ti) |
  • Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do – the pitches of the major scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi/So, So\Re, Fa/La, So/Do, Do\La, Ti\So, Do\Fa
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth rest; double beamed sixteenth notes
  • Key Words: world geography: England; farming, contrary, garden, grow, silver bells, cockleshells, pretty, maids, row

“Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” 

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

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