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Zion’s Children

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Common and tricky syncopation while practicing the descending intervals La\Do and Do\La.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABAC
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ti ta ti ta/a | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, |
    | ti ri ti ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation | ta/a/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: La\Do, Do\La, So/So ascending dominate octave skip, La/Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation
  • Key Words: sacred, world geography, religious history, African American History, spiritual, Zion, children, mother, father, marching, along, about, welcome; possessive: Zion’s

“Zion’s Children” 

1. Old Zion’s children marching along,
Marching along, marching along.
Old Zion’s children marching along,
Talking about a welcome day.
2.
I called my mother marching along,
Marching along, marching along.
I called my mother marching along,
Talking about a welcome day.
3. I called my father marching along,
Marching along, marching along.
I called my father marching along,
Talking about a welcome day.
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You Turn for Sugar and Tea

"You Turn for Sugar and Tea" Lyrics, Text Format

Intermediate syncopation using the pentatonic scale and
mastering the descending tonic arpeggio Mi\Do\So.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA, Oklahoma – Play Song (square dance)
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AB – verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ti ri ti ti (ti) | syncopation, | ta ti (ti) |
    | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti (ti) |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi\So\Do descending tonic arpeggio (x6), La/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; syncopation, descending tonic arpeggio, adding square dance movements to song, moving to steady beat, verse/refrain
  • Key Words: USA geography: Oklahoma; square dance, sugar, tea, candy, chocolate, cake, ice cream, strawberry cake, popcorn, boys, girls, promenade


“You Turn for Sugar and Tea”
 

1.
You turn for sugar and tea,
I turn for candy;
Boys all love that sugar and tea,
Girls all love that candy.
Refrain:
You turn, I turn,
You turn, I turn.
2.
You turn for chocolate cake,
I turn for ice cream;
Boys all love that chocolate cake,
Girls all love that ice cream.
Refrain
3. You turn for strawberry cake,
I turn for popcorn;
Boys all love that strawberry cake,
Girls all love that popcorn.
Refrain
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Yankee Doodle

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Introducing syncopation with English and American history.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: Anglo American – Traditional
  • Key: A flat Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta ta |
    | ta/a ta/a | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation | ta ta ta/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Re\So, So/Do, Ti\So, Do\La, Ti/Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; syncopation
  • Key Words: USA history, world geography, Seven Years’ War, state anthem: Connecticut, doodle (German origins; simpleton), macaroni (1770’s wig) Yankee (citizen of north-east USA), riding, pony, feather, dandy (gentleman), step to music, handy, Captain Gooding, hasty pudding (quick-recipe British dessert from 1742), Squire David (English country gentleman), wasted, Captain Washington, slapping, stallion, million, smother, scampered; abbreviations: ev’ry (every), sav’ed (saved); hyphenated: a-giving (a giving)

“Yankee Doodle” 

1. Yankee Doodle went to town,
A riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his cap,
And called it macaroni.
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
2.
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding;
There we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.
Chorus
3. And there we saw a thousand men,
As rich as Squire David;
And what they wasted ev’ry day,
I wish it could be sav’ed.
Chorus
4. And there was Captain Washington,
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men;
I guess there was a million.
Chorus
5. But I can’t tell you half I saw,
They kept up such a smother;
So I took my hat off, made a bow,
And scampered home to mother.
Chorus
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Wishy Washy

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Advanced rhythms for voice and keyboard.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: England – Singing Game
  • Key: E Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: ABaB
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ta/ | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ | syncopation,
    | ta/a ti | syncopation
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: beginners: Re/So, So\Mi
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, fermata, tied notes
  • Key Words: world geography, England, sailor, lately, sea, another, along
  • Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together


“Wishy Washy”
 

Oh, we are two sailors lately come from sea,
And if you want another one, come along with me.
Oh, wishy washy,
wishy washy, wishy washy, we,
And if you want another one, come along with me.

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The Wind

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Introducing the ascending interval 2nd to 5th, Re/So and two descending tonic arpeggios with repeating pitches.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: England – Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AAB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
    | ta/a/a/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
  • Intervals: intermediate: Re/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio
  • Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter; rest: half
  • Key Words: earth sciences, weather, wind directions, North, East, South, West, seasons, beast, neither, clover, corn, clover, best, brings, drifting, snow, jolly, gentle, their, petals, unclose; abbreviation: flow’rs (flowers); contraction: it’s (it is); conjunction: nor

“The Wind” 

1. When the wind is in the East,
It’s neither good for man nor beast,
It’s neither good for man nor beast.
2.
When the wind is in the West,
The corn and clover grow the best,
The corn and clover grow the best.
3. When the jolly North Wind blows,
It brings the cold and drifting snows,
It brings the cold and drifting snows.
4. When the gentle South Wind blows,
The flow’rs their petals all unclose,
The flow’rs their petals all unclose.
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What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby?

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Mastering the ascending and descending interval La/Do and Do\La in a minor tonality, with syncopation.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
  • Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: refrain: AaAB – verse: ABAB – song: ABA refrain/verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ta |
    | ta/a | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta ti ti | ti/ ri ta | syncopation
  • Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\La, La/Re, Re/Fa, Fa\Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; refrain/verse, repeat signs, D.C. al Fine, Fine, minor tonality, syncopation
  • Key Words: sacred, Christmas, holiday season, African American History, pretty, Bethlehem, Immanuel, Jesus Christ; contraction: gonna (going to), I’ll (I will)

“What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby?” 

Refrain
What you gonna call your pretty little baby,
What you gonna call your pretty little baby,
What you gonna call your pretty little baby,
Born, born in Bethlehem?
1. Some say one thing, I’ll say Immanuel,
Born, born in Bethlehem.
Some call one thing, I’ll call him Jesus
Born, born in Bethlehem.
Refrain
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What Mother Saw

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Beginning syncopation in a minor tonality with
melodic rhythm patterns.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – words: Emilie Poulsson,
    music adapted: Eleanor Smith
  • Key: F minor (pitched in A Flat Major)
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AABA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta ti ti ta/a | syncopation
  • Pitches: beginners: La Ti Do Re Mi
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Ti/Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; melodic rhythm patterns, minor tonality: tonal center is the sixth of the major scale (6, La)
  • Key Words: animal science, mother, woolly lambs, lying, still, sheep, stopped, sleep, shed, calves, quiet, kept, kick, leap, frisking, nest, fluffy, chicks, peep, yellow balls
  • Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

 


“What Mother Saw”
 

1.
What do you think mother saw on the hill?
White woolly lambs that were all lying still.
White woolly lambs by the white woolly sheep,
All had stopped play and were going to sleep.
2.
What do you think mother saw in the shed?
Little red calves that were going to bed.
Quiet they kept, not a kick nor a leap.
Frisking no more, they were going to sleep.
3. What do you think mother saw in the nest?
Soft fluffy chicks cuddling up for their rest.
Soft fluffy chicks, not a sound, not a peep,
Soft, yellow balls, they were going to sleep.
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Venite Adoremus

"Venite Adoremus" Lyrics, Text Format

Four part round in the Dorian mode: the tonal
center is the second pitch (2, Re) of the major scale.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: Latin Traditional Round
  • Key: Dorian Mode – tonal center: 2, Re
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta ta ta/a | ta ta ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a/a ti ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do Re
  • Intervals: intermediate: m3’s: Re/Fa, Do\La, P4: La/Re (primary intervals of a minor tonality) Fa/La M3
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; four part round, Dorian Mode: tonal center is the second (2, Re) of the major scale; syncopation, note: no leading tone
  • Key Words: old world language: Latin: venite, adoremus, dominum; Dorian modality, “Come let us adore Him”, “Christ the Lord”, sacred, Latin Mass, congregational response


“Venite Adoremus”
 

Latin
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Dominum,
Venite adoremus.
English
(O) Come let us adore (him),
(O) Come let us adore (him),
Christ the Lord,
(O) Come let us adore (him).
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Up on the House-Top

"Up On the House-Top" Lyrics, Text Format


Descending variations of La\So\Me\Re,
changing the rhythm to match the lyrics.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – Traditional
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AB – verse/chorus
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
    | ta ta ta/a | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ta |
    | ta ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Re/So, So\Do, Do/Fa, Fa/La, Re/Fa
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; tied notes, verse/chorus, changing rhythms to match verse lyrics
  • Key Words: Christmas, Santa Clause, seasonal, reindeer, pause, jumps, through, chimney, joys, Saint Nick, stocking, dolly, laughs, cries, shut, glorious, hammer, tacks, whistle, whip, cracks; contraction: wouldn’t (would not); possessive: ones’

“Up on the House-Top” 

1. Up on the house-top the reindeer pause,
Out jumps good old Santa Clause;
Down through the chimney with lots of toys,
All for the little ones’ Christmas joys.
Chorus
Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go!
Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go!
Up on the house-top, click, click, click,
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick.
2.
First comes the stocking of little Neil,
Oh dear Santa, fill it well;
Give her a dolly that laughs and cries,
One that will open and shut her eyes.
Chorus
3. Look in the stocking of little Bill,
Oh, just see what a glorious fill!
Here is a hammer and lots of tacks,
Whistle and a ball and a whip that cracks!
Chorus
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Turn Me ‘Round

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Advanced syncopation in a minor tonality, where the
tonal center is the 6th (La) of the major scale.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – Civil Rights Song – from the African American Spiritual
  • Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AB
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ri ti/ ri | ta ta ta ta |
    | ta ti ta/ (ta) | syncopation,
    | ta ti ta/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation | ti ta ti ti ta (ti) |
    | ti/ ri ti ta/ ri ti/ ri |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Do\La, La/Do, Do/Mi
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; pickup beats, tied notes, syncopation, minor tonality
  • Key Words: civil rights, African American History Month, protest song, nobody, injustice, segregation, oppression, jail cell, violence; hyphenated words: a-walkin’ (a walking), a-talkin’ (a talking); abbreviations: ’round (around), walkin’ (walking), talkin’ (talking); contractions: ain’t (are not), gonna (going to)

“Turn Me ‘Round” 

1. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
2.
Ain’t gonna let injustice turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let injustice turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
3. Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
4. Ain’t gonna let oppression turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let oppression turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
5. Ain’t gonna let your jail cells turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let your jail cells turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
6. Ain’t gonna let your violence turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let your violence turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
7. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round,
turn me ’round, turn me ’round.
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ’round,
Keep on a-walkin’,
Keep on a-talkin’,
Walkin’ all over this a land.
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