Our Band

Mastering the ascending interval So/Do
and descending interval So\Do.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Italy – Italian Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AABBB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti |
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta/_a ti | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta/ |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi – adding the 7th (Ti) to a pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, Re\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, pickup beat, horizontal accent (sing/play the note a little louder/stronger), repeat signs (3 times), mastering the ascending and descending perfect fourth (P4) as the dominate to the tonic and the tonic to the dominate
Key Words: band instruments, drums, trombone, trumpet (add more as you wish), instrument sounds

**“Our Band”**

	We come with our singing and playing, A-marching down the street. Now what can the music be saying To our marching feet?
	Rat-ta-ta-tat, rat-ta-ta-tat, Hear how the snare drums play rat-ta-ta-tat.
	Ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta, Hear how the trombone plays ta-ta-ta-ta.
	Too-too-too-toot, too-too-too-toot, Hear how the trumpet plays too-too-too-toot.

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The Old Sow’s Hide

Mastering the intervals of the tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta/a | ti ti ta ti ti ta | ti ti ta ta/a |
| ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, So\Re, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio 1st position, So/Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio 1st position, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth
Key Words: farming, pig farming, sow, hide, cushion, measles, spring, feet, pickled pig’s feet, meat, bacon, tail, whip, sail; possessive: sow’s

**“The Old Sow’s Hide”**

	1.	What shall we do with the old sow’s hide? Make a good cushion as ever did ride. Course cushion, fine cushion, any such a thing, the old sow died of the measles in the spring!
	2.	What shall we do with the old sow’s feet? Make a good pickles as ever was eat. Course pickles, fine pickles, any such a thing, the old sow died of the measles in the spring!
	3.	What shall we do with the old sow’s meat? Make a good bacon as ever was eat. Course bacon, fine bacon, any such a thing, the old sow died of the measles in the spring!
	4.	What shall we do with the old sow’s tail? Make a good whip as ever did sail. Course whip, fine whip, any such a thing, the old sow died of the measles in the spring!

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Old Round

EXCELLENT first round selection, using only the intervals of the tonic triad, where the lyrics explain the process.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Unknown
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: Do Mi So Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, So/Do\So, So\Mi, Mi\Do – skipping up, then down, the tonic triad
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; three (3) part round
Key Words: text explains what is happening when singing a round, catch, start, hear, say, saying, on (go on), together
Recorder: intermediate: excellent for practicing the intervals to the tonic, following the Beginning Recorder Songs

**“Old Round”**
Now come on, you cannot catch us, For we have the start you know. Hear them say what we are saying, As we on together go.

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Old Molly Hare

Introducing the dotted quarter note.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – American Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ta/ ti | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Fa\Re, Re/So, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Ti\So
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; verse/refrain, vocal slur
Key Words: Easter, farming, gardening, life of a rabbit, rabbit food, hare, cotton, through, tear, apples, pear, nibbling, garden, prickly pear, briar, haystack, bear, picking; hyphenated: a-shooting

**“Old Molly Hare”**

			Refrain
			Old Molly Hare, What you doing there?
		1.	Running through the cotton Just as fast as I can tear.
			Refrain
		2.	Eating up the apples And a looking for a pear
			Refrain
		3.	Nibbling in the garden, Just as often as I dare.
			Refrain
		4.	Picking out a briar, Sitting on a prickly pear.
			Refrain
		5.	Sitting on a haystack, And a-shooting at a bear.

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The Old Chisholm Trail

Practicing two perfect fourths: Do/Fa, So\Re,
the perfect fifth: Do/So, and the subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do/So, So\Re, Fa\Re, Do/Fa/La ascending subdominant arpeggio (IV, G)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, verse/refrain, subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La
Key Words: USA geography: Texas; USA history: Chisholm Trail, cowboy song, trail song, round-up, cowboy life, troubles, ten dollar horse, October, herd, morning, daylight, driving cattle, moon shine, bright, prairie, bacon, beans, cow tail; abbreviations: ridin’ (riding), punchin’ (punching), ol’ (old), drivin’ (driving); contraction: I’m (I am), it’s (it is), I’d (I would); hyphenated: twenty-third

**“The Old Chisholm Trail”**

	1.	Oh, come along, boys, and listen to my tale, I’ll tell you of my troubles on the Old Chisholm Trail.
		Refrain:
		Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea, yippy yea, Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea.
	2.	On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle, I was ridin’ and a punchin’ Texas cattle.
		Refrain
	3.	We left ol’ Texas October twenty-third Drivin’ up the trail with the U-2 herd.
		Refrain
	4.	I’m up in the morning before daylight, And before I sleep the moon shine bright.
		Refrain
	5.	It’s bacon and beans most every day, I’d just as soon be eating prairie hay.
		Refrain
	6.	I woke up one morning on the Chisholm trail, With a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail.
		Refrain

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My Dreidel

Intermediate syncopation, a tonic arpeggio,
and repeated melodic rhythm patterns.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: Israel – music: Samuel Goldfarb, Mikhi Gelbart
words: Samuel S. Grossman
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: AAAA – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ti ti ta (ti) ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So\Do, Mi\Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa\Re, Re/So, Mi/So\Mi, Re/Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, repeated melodic rhythm patterns; note: the measure three is a whole step above measure one, measure seven is a whole step below measure five
Key Words: world geography: Israel, Hanukkah, dreidel (four sided spinning top/toy), making a dreidel, lovely, short, thin, drops, always, playful, dance, spin, happy, game, begin; contraction: let’s (let us)
Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

**“My Dreidel”**

	1.	I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay, And when it’s dry and ready, Then dreidel I shall play.
		Refrain:
		Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, Now dreidel I shall play.
	2.	It has a lovely body, With legs so short and thin. And when my dreidel’s tired, It drops and then I win!
		(Refrain)
	3.	My dreidel’s always playful, It loves to dance and spin. A happy game of dreidel, Come play now, let’s begin!
		(Refrain)

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The Mill Song

Introducing the sixth (La) to the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Singing School Song – Round
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) |Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
Musical Elements: quarter note, quarter rest, singing alone and with others, introducing the sixth (La), beginning Orff interval So\Mi, round
Key Words: how a mill works, corn, ground
Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together; intermediate: ensemble round

**“The Mill Song”**
‘Round and ’round, the mill goes round. As it does the corn is ground.

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Michael Finnigan

Ascending tonic arpeggio, adding the leading tone
to a pentatonic scale.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta ta | ta ta ti ti ta |
| ta ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: beginners: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi, Re\Ti/Re, Re\So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, melodic rhythm patterns
Key Words: never ending song, scout song, camp song, St. Patrick’s Day song, nonsense song, whiskers, chin, blew, grew, awful, din, fishing, caught, dropped, climbed, barked (scrapped against the bark of a tree), shin, fat, thin, born; contraction: let’s (let us)

**“Michael Finnigan”**

	1.	There was an old man named Michael Finnigan. He had whiskers on his chin-i-gan. Wind blew them off but they grew in again. Poor old Michael Finnigan! Begin again!

	2.	There was an old man called Michael Finnigan, He kicked up an awful din again, Because they said he must not sing again. Poor old Michael Finnigan, Begin again!

	3.	There was an old man called Michael Finnigan, He went fishing with a pin again, Caught a fish but dropped it in again, Poor old Michael Finnigan! Begin again!

	4.	There was an old man called Michael Finnigan, Climbed a tree and barked his shin again, Tore off yards and yards of skin again, Poor old Michael Finnigan! Begin again!

	5.	There was an old man called Michael Finnigan, He grew fat and he grew thin again, Then he died and had to be born again, Poor old Michael Finnigan! Let’s end again!

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Looby Loo

Practicing tonic intervals, stepping down from the 6th (La) to the tonic (Do), and stepping up with syncopation.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: English Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD (4 measure phrases) ABA (8 measure phrases)
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | ta/a/a |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/_a ti | ta ti ta ti | ta (ti) ta/ |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, refrain/verse, D.C. al Fine, Fine
Key Words: learning left and right, physical science, parts of the body, hand, foot, Saturday, whole self, body, shake, turn about

**“Looby Loo”**

			Refrain
			Here we go looby loo, Here we go looby light, Here we go looby loo, All on a Saturday night.
		1.	I put my right hand in, I take my right hand out, I give my head a shake, shake, shake, And turn myself about. Oh,
			Refrain
		2.	I put my left hand in, I take my left hand out, I give my head a shake, shake, shake, And turn myself about. Oh,
			Refrain
		3.	I put my right foot in, I take my right foot out, I give my head a shake, shake, shake, And turn myself about. Oh,
			Refrain
		4.	I put my left hand in, I take my left hand out, I give my head a shake, shake, shake, And turn myself about. Oh,
			Refrain
		5.	I put my whole self in, I take my whole self out, I give my head a shake, shake, shake, And turn myself about. Oh,
			Refrain

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Long, Long Ago

Practicing an ascending major sixth (So/Mi).

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: A Major
Time: 3/4
Form: rhythm: ABAB – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta/ ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, So/Mi (M6), Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; dotted quarter syncopation
Key Words: USA, world geography: Bethlehem; Christmas carol, sacred, Bible story, birth of Jesus (Christ), winds, olive tree, softly, sheep, hillside, whiter, snow, angels, watching, bent low, songs of joy, manger bed, cradled; abbreviation: ’round (round)

**“Long, Long Ago”**

	1.	Winds through the olive trees, Softly did blow, ‘Round little Bethlehem, Long, long ago.

	2.	Sheep on the hillside lay, Whiter than snow, Angels were watching them, Long, long ago.

	3.	Then from the happy sky, Angels bent low, Singing their songs of joy, Long, long ago.

	4.	Then from a manger bed, Cradled, we know, Christ came to Bethlehem, Long, long ago.

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2nd Grade