Oh, Dear What Can the Matter Be?

Introducing 6/8 time and running eighth notes.
This one is just for the girls.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: English Folk Song, Traditional
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABACDEDC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a ta | ta/a/a | running eighth notes
Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi Fa So Do – adding Fa to the pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/Do, Do\So, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Fa\Re, Re/So, Do\La, La/Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, running eighth notes; refrain/verse, extending the vocal range, D.C. al Fine, Fine
Key Words: Valentines, courting song, English rhyme song, trinket, matter, tease, promised, ribbons, bonnie brown, flowers, posies, lilies, roses, straw, tie

**“Oh, Dear What Can the Matter Be?”**

			Refrain:

			Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Johnny’s so long at the fair.

		1.	He promised to bring me a trinket to please me, And then for a smile, oh, he vowed he would tease me. He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons, To tie up my bonnie brown hair.

			Refrain

		2.	He promised to bring me a basket of posies A garland of lilies, a gift of red roses, A little straw hat to set off the blue ribbons, That tie up my bonnie brown hair.

			Refrain

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Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go

Introducing the 4th (Fa) while stepping up and down the staff.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: English Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/2
Form: rhythm: AaBa – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ti | ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a/a ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginners: none
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beats, melody moves by steps, stepping up and down the staff from Do to Fa
Key Words: hunting, fox, fish, bear, pig, giraffe, box, dish, hair, jig, laugh

**“Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go”**

		1.	Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go; We’ll catch a fox and put him in a box, And then we’ll let him go!

		2.	Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go; We’ll catch a fish and put him on a dish, And then we’ll let him go!

		3.	Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go; We’ll catch a bear and cut his hair, And then we’ll let him go!

		4.	Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go; We’ll catch a pig and dance a jig, And then we’ll let him go!

		5.	Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go; We’ll catch a giraffe and make him laugh, And then we’ll let him go!

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Ode to a Washerwoman

Running eighth notes with three major thirds (M3) and three minor thirds (m3).

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional Folk Song
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: running eighth notes
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do (M3), Do\So, So/Do, Do/Mi (M3), Mi/So (m3), Fa\Re (m3), Re\So, So/Re, Re/Fa (m3), Fa/La (M3)
Musical Elements: notes: eighth; running eighth notes, pickup beat, intervals of a third
Key Words: laundry, washing clothes, washerwoman, dances, sings, washes

**“Ode to a Washerwoman”**
Here’s a woman, a woman, a good washerwoman, A woman, a woman, a good washerwoman, A woman, a woman, a good washerwoman. She dances and sings as she washes the clothes.

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Obedient

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At Home

Running eighth notes racing to find the tonic Do.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: D Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: running eighth notes
Pitches: intermediate: Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: note: eighth; rest: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato/moderately fast (86-109 BPM), dynamics: forte/loud, crescendo, decrescendo, pickup beat, tied notes
Key Words: character education, minding, swiftly, patter, suppose, obey, spryer, flood, leaves

**“Obedient”**

		1.	Just see that child running! How swiftly he goes! How fast his feet patter! What can be the matter? And what is his hurry? What do you suppose? So swiftly he goes!

		2.	His mother has called him, He runs to obey! He could not be spryer, For flood or for fire. When ever she calls him He leaves off his play And runs to obey!

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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Introducing the raised second Ri, D#.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: 18th Century English Lullaby
Key: C Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta/a ti ti | ta ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Ri Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Do/La, La/Do, Do\So, So\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, tempo: moderately; sharped second (Ri,D#)
Key Words: sacred, children’s prayer, children’s lullaby, Lord, sleep, die, pray, wake, soul
Recorder: advanced: introducing D#

**“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”**
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

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The Grand Old Duke of York

Intermediate syncopation and a tonic arpeggio.

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Description

Grade: First
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: A Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
| ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginning: Mi So Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginning: Do\So\Mi/So/Do tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beats, syncopation, tonic arpeggio
Key Words: world geography: England; grand, noble, Duke of York, ten thousand, marched, up, down, neither, nor; contraction: we’re (we are)

“The Grand Old Duke of York”
also known as
“The Noble Duke of York”

	1.	Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men; He marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again.

	2.	And when we’re up, we’re up, And when we’re down we’re down, And when we’re only half way up, We’re neither up nor down.

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My Thumbs Are Starting to Wiggle

Introducing the interval Fa/La (M3).

Description

Grade: First
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABaC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/ (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Fa/La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, fermata
Key Words: play song, moving to music, parts of the body, thumbs, hands, arms, legs, wiggle; contractions: wigglin’ (wiggling)

**“My Thumbs Are Starting to Wiggle”**

		1.	My thumbs are starting to wiggle, My thumbs are starting to wiggle, My thumbs are starting to wiggle, Around and around and around.

		2.	My hands are starting to wiggle, My hands are starting to wiggle, My hands are starting to wiggle, Around and around and around.

		3.	My arms are starting to wiggle, My arms are starting to wiggle, My arms are starting to wiggle, Around and around and around.

		4.	My legs are starting to wiggle, My legs are starting to wiggle, My legs are starting to wiggle, Around and around and around.

		5.	Now all of me is a wigglin’, Now all of me is a wigglin’ Now all of me is a wigglin’ I think I had better sit down.

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My Pony

Introducing an ascending dominate octave skip So/So.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCCaB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, Re\Ti, Ti\So, So/So ascending dominate octave skip, So\Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, octave skip So/So
Key Words: horses, pony, nimble, stony, whoa, jaunt, rough, top; contractions: ’tis (it is), safe’s (safe is), thro’ (through)

**“My Pony”**

		1.	Hop, hop, hop! Nimble as a top, Where ’tis smooth and where ’tis stony, Trudge along my little pony, Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop! Nimble as a top.

		2.	Whoa, whoa, whoa! How like fun we go, Very well my little pony, Safe’s our jaunt thro’ rough and stony, Spare, spare, spare, spare, spare! Sure enough we’re there.

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My Farm

Complex rhythms with phrases composed up a third and down a second.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Argentina Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: AABBCC – pitches: ABCDEF
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta/ ti ta (ta) | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta (ta) |
| ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta (ti) ti |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So/Do, Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Mi/So, So/Mi, Fa\Re, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; phrases raised by a third and lowered by a second, note heads as beats
Key Words: spanish, farm animals, animal science, animal sounds, winding, stream, barnyard, grass, green, pollito (chicken – peep), perrito (dog – bow wow), gatito (cat – meow), burrito (donkey – hee haw), patito (duck – quack), chanchito (pig – oink), gallito (rooster – cock-a-doodle-do)

**“My Farm”**

		1.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El pollito (the chicken) goes like this: peep, peep, El pollito goes like this: peep, peep.

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			O va, camarada, va, camarada, Va, O va, O va: O va, camarada, va, camarada, Va, O va, O va:

		2.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El perrito (the dog) goes like this: bow wow, El perrito goes like this: bow wow.

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		3.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El gatito (the cat) goes like this: meow, meow, El gatito goes like this: meow, meow.

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		4.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El burrito (the donkey) goes like this: hee haw, El burrito goes like this: hee haw.

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		5.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El patito (the duck) goes like this: quack, quack, El patito goes like this: quack, quack.

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		6.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El chanchito (the pig) goes like this: oink, oink, El chanchito goes like this: oink, oink.

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		7.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El gallito (the rooster) goes like this: cock-a-doodle-do, El gallito goes like this: cock-a-doodle-do.

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My Dream

Introducing the major sixth (So/Mi), the minor sixth (So\Ti),
and the ascending tonic arpeggio (Do/Mi/So).

Description

Grade: First
Origin: USA – Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ti ti ta ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta/a ti ti |
syncopation, | ta/a ta |
Pitches: beginners: So Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Mi (M6), Mi\Do/Mi, Do/So, So\Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), So\Ti (m6)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tonic arpeggio, intervals of a major and minor sixth
Key Words: USA, singing game, things that move this way and that: traffic light, tumbleweed, trumpeter, hummingbird, sailing ship, waving flag, swinging gate, marching band, carpenter

**“My Dream”**

	1.	When I was a traffic light, And a traffic light was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	2.	When I was a tumbleweed, And a tumbleweed was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	3.	When I was a trumpeter, And a trumpeter was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	4.	When I was a hummingbird, And a hummingbird was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	5.	When I was a sailing ship, And a sailing ship was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	6.	When I was a waving flag, And a waving flag was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	7.	When I was a swinging gate, And a swinging gate was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	8.	When I was a marching band, And a marching band was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

	9.	When I was a carpenter, And a carpenter was I, Oh, a-this-a-way, and a-that-a-way, And a-this-a-way, went I.

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1st Grade