Autumn Comes

Excellent for introducing minor tonality.
Includes questions concerning the minor home pitch.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: English Folk Song
Key: D minor
Time: 3/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta ta | ta/a/a |
Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – all pitches of the minor scale
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/La, Fa\Do, Fa\Re, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; rest: quarter; tied notes, minor mode, home pitch is the 6th pitch of the major scale: La
Key Words: seasons of the year, winter, summer, earth science, stars, skies, harvest moon

**“Autumn Comes”**
Autumn comes, the summer is past, Winter will come too soon. Stars will shine clearer, skies seem nearer, Under the harvest moon.

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A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea

"A Sailor Went to Sea" Lyrics, Text Format

Excellent for practicing an open ‘ee’ vowel.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: American Playground Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, So\Mi, Mi/So, Ti\So, So/Ti – intervals always return to the beginning pitch
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat
Key Words: sailor, sea, deep, blue, bottom homonyms: sea, see; too, two

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea,
To see what he could see, see, see,
And all that he could see, see, see,
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

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The Angel Band

Challenging rhythms and intervals for Christmas or Easter.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: African American Spiritual
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: Verse: AAAB – Refrain: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ta (ti) |
| ti ti ti ti | ti ta ti ri | ta/ ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\So, Do/Mi, Re\So, Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, reinforces tonic tried (Do-Mi-So)
Key Words: sacred, counting to ten, counting backwards from ten, Christmas, Easter, angels, band, Sunday, morning, Sunday Morning; contraction: wasn’t (was not)

**“The Angel Band”**

	1.	There was one, there were two, There were three little angels There were four, there were five, There were six little angels There were seven, there were eight, There were nine little angels Ten little angels in the band.

		Refrain:

		Wasn’t that a band, Sunday* morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning? Wasn’t that a band, Sunday morning, Sunday morning soon?

	2.	There were ten, there were nine, There were eight little angels There were seven, there were six, There were five little angels There were four, there were three, There were two little angels One little angel in the band.

		Refrain

		* Christmas or Easter may be substituted for Sunday.

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America, America

Uncommon intervals in E minor.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional
Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ti ta ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ta ti ti ta ta | ta/a ta ta | ta ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Mi La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: advanced: Mi/La, So/Ti, La\Mi, Ti\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, vocal slur, minor tonality, uncommon intervals
Key Words: patriotism, America, United States, beauty, sing, country

**“America, America”**
America, America! Shall I tell you how we feel? Your have given us your beauty, We sing to you.

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All Night, All Day

Introducing a dotted quarter before and after an eighth, plus syncopation!
Additional verses included in our second grade version.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: African American Spiritual
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ta/a | ta/ ti ta/a|
| ta ta ti ti ti ti | ti ta/ ti ta/ |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Do\So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Re\Ti
Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; repeat, vocal slur, syncopation
Key Words: sacred, angels, night, day, prayer, spiritual, African American Spiritual, lullaby

Combination format available upon request.

**“All Night, All Day”**
All night, all day Angels watching over me my Lord. All night, all day, Angels watching over me.

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All Around the Kitchen

Introducing the flat third (Me), the feeling of a minor tonality.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: African American Play Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABbBbAA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta ta ta ti ti | ti ta ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Me (flat 3rd)
Intervals: intermediate: Do\La, (repeats often expressing the feeling of a minor tonality), Me\Do, Do/Me (flat 3rd, minor feeling), La/Do, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; fermata, vocal slur, pickup beat, flat 3rd (Me)
Key Words: rooster, rooster crow, cock-a-doodle, rooster walk, rooster scratching, movement to music, hips, shoulders, knees, head

Chorus

All around the kitchen,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo,
All around the kitchen,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.

Now stop right still,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And put your hands on your hips,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And let your right foot slip,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
Then do it like this,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.

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2.Now stop right still,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And put your hands on your head,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And let your right foot slip,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
Then do it like this,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.

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3.Now stop right still,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And put your hands on your knees,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And let your right foot slip,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
Then do it like this,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.

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4.Now stop right still,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And put your hands on your shoulders,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
And let your right foot slip,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.
Then do it like this,
Cock-a-doodle, doodle, doo.

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1st Grade

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