Advanced: syncopated rhythms in 6/8, extended range,
ascending/descending arpeggios and octave skips.

 

Description

• Grade: Second
• Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
• Key: A Flat Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: rhythm: ABABCDCD – pitches: ABAbCDCE
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta/a/ ti ri |
  syncopation, | ta ti ta ti ri | syncopation
• Pitches: advanced: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi So – extended range
• Intervals: advanced: So/Mi, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So/Mi8, Do\So, So/Re, Re\Ti\Sodescending dominate arpeggio, So/Do, So/So8dominate octave skip, So8\So dominate octave skip
• Musical Elements: notes; dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, tied notes, feeling duple meter (dotted quarters) in 6/8 time, syncopation, melodic rhythm patterns
• Key Words: world geography: England; nursery rhyme, sailing, parts of a boat/ship, sea, deeply, laden, pretty, candy, cabin, apples, hold (lower storage area), sails, satin, masts, gold, four and twenty (24), stood, decks, white, mice, rings, necks, captain, duck, jacket, fairy, quack, duck sounds

“Ship A-Sailing” 

	1.	I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea, And it was deeply laden With pretty things for me. There was candy in the cabin And apples in the hold; The sails were made of satin And the masts were made of gold.
	2.	The four and twenty sailors That stood between the decks, Were four and twenty black mice With rings about their necks. The captain was a duck, a duck With a jacket on his back; And when the fairy ship set sail The captain said, “Quack, quack.”

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Introducing syncopation for voice and keyboard.

 

Description

• Grade: Second
• Origin: USA – Texas Folk Song
• Key: G Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: rhythm: AAAB – pitches: AaAB
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ri ti ri ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation
• Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So
• Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, So\Mi, Do/Mi
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation
• Key Words: USA geography, Texas, sandy land, farming, taters (potatoes), sweet potatoes, dig, raise, make a living, fare you well, ladies
• Keyboard: intermediate: Upper grades: Excellent
  five finger exercise; left, right, and two hands together

“Sandy Land” 

	1.	I make my living in the sandy land, I make my living in the sandy land, I make my living in the sandy land, Oh ladies, fare you well.
	2.	They raise big taters in the sandy land, They raise big taters in the sandy land, They raise big taters in the sandy land, Oh ladies, fare you well.
	3.	They dig sweet potatoes in sandy land, They dig sweet potatoes in sandy land, They dig sweet potatoes in sandy land, Oh ladies, fare you well.

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Skipping in 6/8 time with a quarter followed by an eighth.

 

Description

• Grade: Second
• Origin: England – 17th Century English Rhyme
• Key: C Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: ABCD (4 measures) AB (8 measures)
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta ti |
  ta/ ta ti | ti (ti) (ti) ta ti | ta/ ta/ |
• Pitches: advanced: So Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re – wide range
• Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, So\Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Do, Do/La, La\Re, Re/Fa, Do/Do ascending octave skip, Do\La, Ti\So, So/Do8, Ti/Re8, Re8\Ti
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; descending tonic arpeggio, ascending tonic octave skip, extending the vocal range
• Key Words: nursery rhyme, cobbler, bench, chased, weasel, monkey, thought, sigh, patience, by and by, nickel, spool, thread, sewing, regal; contractions; I’ve (I have), ’twas (it was); possessive: cobbler’s

A seemingly nonsense rhyme with many interpretations. Excellent for class discussion. In the United States the first verse represents children working in the fabric shops prior to the industrial revolution; chasing yarn balls.

“Pop Goes The Weasel” 

		1.	All around the cobbler’s bench, The monkey chased the weasel, The monkey thought ’twas all in fun, Pop! goes the weasel! I’ve no time to wait and sigh, No patience to wait till by and by, So kiss me quick, I’m off, goodbye, Pop! goes the weasel!
		2.	A nickel for a spool of thread, A penny for a needle- That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel. You may try to sew and sew, And never make anything regal, So roll it up and let it go, Pop! goes the weasel.

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Mastering the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.
Centered around the 3rd (Mi) before arriving
at the tonic (Do) on the last pitch.

 

Description

• Grade: Second
• Origin: USA – African American Singing Game
• Key: D Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABbbbb
• Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
  | ta ti ta ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti-ti-ti ta ta | triplet,
  | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta ta ta | ti (ti) ta ta ta |
• Pitches: beginners: Mi So La Do
• Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/La, Mi/So, So/Do
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, eighth triplet; rest: quarter, eighth; triplet, tied notes, syncopation
• Key Words: African American History Month, playground songs, jump-rope song, boyfriend, pizza, rope, twist; abbreviation: ’cause (because); hyphenated: daddy-o

 

“Pizza, Pizza, Daddy-O” 

Annie has a boyfriend, Pizza, pizza, daddy-o, How do you know it? Pizza, pizza, daddy-o, ‘Cause she told me, Pizza, pizza, daddy-o, Let’s rope it! Rope it, rope it, daddy-o, Let’s twist it! Twist it, twist it, daddy-o Let’s end it! End it, end it, daddy-o.

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