Four part round with advanced syncopated rhythms in 6/8 time.
Description
- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
- Key: C Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ta/ | ta ti ta/ |
syncopation, | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, |
| ta/_ti (ti ti) | ta/_ta/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti | (_=tie) - Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So Do
- Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So (repeated pitches of a descending tonic arpeggio)
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, four part round, singing alone and with others, singing in parts, 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: world geography: England; row, boat, gently, stream, merrily, dream, camp song, scout song
Partner song: “Freres Jacues!”