• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: Czech Republic – Folk Song
• Key: E flat Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: rhythm: AABB – phrases/song: AB
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta/ ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: so do re mi fa so do – extended vocal range
• Intervals: intermediate: so/do, mi\do, so8/do8\so8, mi/so\mi, do\so, mi/do8, mi/so8, so8\mi- all intervals within the tonic arpeggio, E flat Major (Bb-Eb-G-Bb-Eb), or I (one)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, four part round in two parts, singing in parts, reading two parts, verse/refrain, harmony, recognizing the intervals associated with the I chord
• Key Words: world geography: Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia – now the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), plain, gold, green, young, plainly, swiftly, flowing, river, lifted, head, spires, instead, pleasure, grand, castle, deep, shade
• Xylophones: intermediate: Letter Names Format is presented in G Major; practicing tonic chord intervals

The original melody, taught in the 4th grade: “Ifca’s Castle” is divided between the two parts.

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