Home on the Range

Syncopation on the second half of the second and third beats
(and of 2, and of 3), with intermediate intervals La/Fa and Mi\So.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: phrases: AaBa – song: AB, verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti |
| ta ta ta | ta/a/a | ta/ ti ta | syncopation,
| ta ta/ ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Mi\Do, La/Fa, So\Do, Re\So, Do/So, Mi\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; syncopation, pickup beat, two double barlines, tied notes, ending a phrase of the second (Re)
Key Words: USA history, western expansion, cowboy song, earth science, life on the plains, buffalo, roam, antelope, seldom, discouraging, skies, cloudy, range, diamond sand, leisurely, stream, graceful, white swan, gliding, maid, heavenly, dream, pure air, zephyrs (light breezes), balmy, exchange, cities, heavens, glittering stars, amazed, glazed, glory, exceeds

**“Home on the Range”**

	1.	Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the dear and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
		Chorus:
		Home, home on the range, Where the dear and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
	2.	Oh, give me some land where the bright diamond sand, Flows leisurely down the stream; Where the graceful white swan, goes gliding along, Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
		Chorus
	3.	Where the air is so pure and the zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and bright; That I would not exchange my home on the range, For all of the cities so bright.
		Chorus
	4.	How often at night when the heavens are bright, With the light of the glittering stars, Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed, If their glory exceeds that of ours?
		Chorus

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Home on the Range," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Hold On!

Ascending minor tonic arpeggio, a sharped dominate (Si, which functions as a 7th to the parallel D Major) and an advanced
interval Mi/Si, a very distinctive interval in D minor.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: D minor – pitched in F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a | ti ti ti ta/a/ | syncopation,
| ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a | ta ta/a/a | (_ = tied note)
| ta/a/a/a_|_a/a/a ta | _ta/a ti ti ti ti | ta/a (ta) ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: La Do Re Mi So Si La – raised/sharped dominate (Si)
Intervals: advanced: La/Do/Mi ascending minor tonic arpeggio (Dm), Do\La, Mi/Si, Mi/La, So\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, pitches held for seven and six beats; note the variations in rhythm using the same pitches, measures 2 and 4
Key Words: USA history, African American history, African American Spiritual, sacred, work song, Farming with a plow, tire, farming rows, higher and higher, stays, lead, straight, heaven, promised land, contractions: I’ll (I will), abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
Recorder: intermediate: introducing C# and practicing the ascending tonic arpeggio, Dm

**“Hold On!”**

	1.	If you want to get to heaven, I’ll tell you how, Keep your hand right on that plow .
		Refrain:
		Keep you hand on that plow, Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, Keep your hand right on that plow, Hold on.
	2.	Keep on plowing and don’t you tire, Ev’ry row goes higher and higher.
		Refrain
	3.	If that plow stays in your hand, Lead you straight to the promised land.
		Refrain

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Hold On!," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Hey, Ho! Nobody Home

Counting beat divisions in 2/2 (cut) time, singing in
three parts, and introducing the coda.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: England – Old Round
Key: F minor – pitched in A major
Time: 2/2, also counted in 4/4
Form: ABCa
Rhythm : 2/2 – advanced*: although the rhythm is identical to 4/4, counting the beat divisions in 2/2 is more challenging to comprehend;
4/4 – intermediate: | ta (ta) ta (ta) | ta ti ti ta (ta) |
| ta ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) | ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Mi So La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: La\Mi, Mi\La, Ti/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; rest: quarter; minor tonality where La is the tonal center, syncopation, repeat sign, three part round (coda is sung together), singing in parts, four part round, coda, fermata, cut time
Key Words: world geography, England, minor key, three part round with coda, three part round, nobody, meat, drink, nor, none, yet, merry
Recorder: intermediate: excellent ensemble selection

* Beat Format includes the beat divisions in 2/2 and 4/4.

**“Hey, Ho! Nobody Home”**
Hey, ho! Nobody home. Meat nor drink nor money have I none. Yet will I be merry, Hey, ho! Nobody home.

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Hey, Ho! Nobody Home," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Harvest Song

Syncopation on the last quarter of the first and second beat
(ee of 1, ee of two), advanced intervals, extended range, and mastering the intervals of the tonic chord; ascending
and descending tonic arpeggios in voice and recorder.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Denmark – Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: staves: ABABCB – song: AAB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta ti/ ri ti ti ta | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti ti ti ti ta |
syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi- extending the vocal range
Intervals: advanced: Do8\So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/So/Do8 ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Do, Do8\Fa, La\Mi, So\Re, Do/Do8ascending tonic octave, /Fa, Ti/Re8, Re8\So/Re8, Do/Mi8, Mi8\So
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; tonic ascending and descending arpeggios
Key Words: world geography, Denmark, seasons, fall, autumn, farming, farm harvest, harvesting grain, rye, wheat, hay; fall festivals, fall harvest, meadows, cradled, stacked, barn, fruit tree harvest, harvesting fruit trees, shaken, gathered, homeward, wend, gladness, throughout, land, merrily, bind, harvest wreath; abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
Recorder: advanced: mastering intervals of the tonic chord, ascending and descending tonic arpeggios

**“Harvest Song”**
Out in the meadows the grain has been cradled, Rye and wheat are stacked and hay will soon be in the barn. Trees have been shaken and fruit has been gathered, Homeward now we wend our way upon the final load. Gladness on ev’ry hand, Games and dance throughout the land; Singing merrily we bind the happy harvest wreath.

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Harvest Song," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Harvest

Running eighth notes while stepping up and down the staff,
ending a phrase on the supertonic, Re.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Denmark – Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCc
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti (ti) |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: Do/So, Do8\La, So\Mi, Fa\Re
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, running eighth notes
Key Words: world geography, Denmark, harvest season, seasons, fall, autumn, harvesting apples
Recorder: intermediate: following the beginning recorder songs, good practice for moving up and down the scale

**“Harvest”**
When all the leaves are turning brown And apple trees are bending down, It’s time to pick the apples sweet And gather in the harvest. Come and pick the apples sweet, Apples sweet, apples sweet. Reach up high and don’t be shy Or you will be the last to eat.

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Harvest," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Great Big House

Changing rhythms to match verse syllables, moving to a steady beat, and movements for each line of the second verse.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Louisiana Play Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ri | ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, La\Mi, So\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter
Key Words: USA geography, New Orleans, Louisiana, forty stories, chicken pie, mill stream, fetch, pail, wife, daughter, darling, golden slippers; abbreviation: ev’ry (every)

**“Great Big House”**

		1.	Great big house in New Orleans, Forty stories high; Ev’ry room that I been in, Filled with chicken pie.
		2.	Went down to the old mill stream, To fetch a pail of water; Put one arm around my wife, The other ’round my daughter.
		3.	Fare thee well, my darling girl, Fare thee well, my daughter; Fare thee well, my darling girl, With the golden slippers on her.

		Movements:
		1.	First verse: students form a circle, holding hands, walk keeping a steady beat, then stop.
		2.	Went down to the old mill stream, (every other student moves to the center, holding hands with arms below waist) To fetch a pail of water; (outside circle moves behind inner circle, placing arms over the shoulders of the inner circle and holds hands) Put one arm around my wife, (keeping hands held, outside circle raises arms to ceiling, bringing them down behind the back of the inner circle) The other ’round my daughter. (keeping hands held, inner circle rises arms to ceiling, bringing them down behind the backs of the outer circle)
		3.	Third verse: keeping arms around the outer circle, the whole circle walks to a steady beat.

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Great Big House," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Goodbye Old Paint

Practicing the interval of a 6th, La\Do/La and cowboy diction
(dropping the last letter of the word).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: staves: AABB song: ABA, refrain/verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta/a ti ti | ta ta ta |
| ta/ ti ta | ta ta ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: La\Do/La, So\Mi, Do\So/Do, Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain
Key Words: USA history, USA geography, Cheyenne, Montana, cowboy vocabulary, stirrup, pony, bridle; abbreviations: ol’ (old), leavin’ (leaving), stan’ (stand), riddin’ (ridding), leadin’ (leading), Montan’ (Montana), han’ (hand); contraction: I’m (I am), won’t (will not)

**“Goodbye Old Paint”**

			Refrain
			Goodbye, ol’ Paint, I’m a-leavin’ Cheyenne, Goodbye, ol’ Paint, I’m a-leavin’ Cheyenne.
		1.	My foot in the stirrup, my pony won’t stan’, I’m a-leavin’ Cheyenne an’ I’m off for Montan’.
			Refrain
		2.	I’m riddin’ ol’ Paint and I’m leadin’ ol’ Dan, Goodbye, little Annie, I’m off for Montan’.
			Refrain
		3.	My foot in the stirrup the bridle in han’. I’m a-leavin’ Cheyenne an’ I’m off for Montan’.
			Refrain

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Goodbye Old Paint," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Goober Peas

Extending the vocal range with challenging tonic arpeggios
and octave skips.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Georgia, Confederate Civil War Song
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: AAABCB – pitches: ABaCDC
song: AB (verse/refrain)
Rhythm: beginners: | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
| ta ta | ta/a | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Re Mi Fa So Si La Ti Do Re Mi
– raised dominant, extended range
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do\La, La\Si/La, Do\So\Mi descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi8, La/Do, Ti/Re8, Do\So/Do, Do\Mi, Mi/So, Fa/La, La\Re, Mi/Miascending octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; verse/refrain, syncopation, raised dominant (Si)
Key Words: US history, US Civil War, Confederate States, Georgia, Yankees, Rebels, soldiers, mule, custom, enchanting, goober peas (peanuts), General, battle, row [rou] (a loud noise or uproar), rifles, Georgia Militia, interesting, rhymes, mighty, rags, fleas, kiss, wives, sweethearts, rations, scanty, wearing; abbreviations: d’ya (do you), subject’s (subject is); possessive: summer’s; colloquial: enchanting-er (more enchanting) , grinders (teeth)

**“Goober Peas”**

		1.	Sitting by the roadside, on a summer’s day, Chatting with my messmates, passing time away; Lying in the shadow underneath the trees, Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.
			Refrain:
			Peas, peas, peas, peas, eating goober peas. Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.
		2.	When a horse-man passes, the soldiers have a rule To cry out their loudest, “Mister here’s your mule!” But another custom, enchanting-er than these Is wearing out your fingers, eating goober peas.
			Refrain
		3.	Just before the battle, the General hears a row He says “The Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now. He turns around in wonder, and what d’ya think he sees? The Georgia Militia, eating goober peas.
			Refrain
		4.	I think my song has lasted almost long enough. The subject’s interesting, but the rhymes are mighty tough. I wish the war was over, so free from rags and fleas We’d kiss our wives and sweethearts, and gobble goober peas.
			Refrain
		5.	But now we are in prison and likely long to stay, The Yankees they are guarding us, no hope to get away; Our rations they are scanty, ’tis cold enough to freeze,— I wish I was in Georgia, eating goober peas.
			Refrain

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Goober Peas," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Golden Slumbers

Melody of the verses is centered around the dominate (So)
resolving to the tonic (Do) in the refrain.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: 17 Century Cradle Song
Key: A Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AB, verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/a/a |
| ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: advanced: So\Mi, So/Mi8, Do\La, Ti\So, Do/Mi8, Mi8\La, La/Re, Re\So, So/Ti, Do\So, So/Re\So, Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; rest: quarter; tied notes, vocal slurs
Key Words: lullaby, cradle song, slumbers, kiss your eyes, smiles, await, rise, sleep, loved one, cry, sing, cares, mother, safe watch, keep

**“Golden Slumbers”**

	1.	Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles await you when you rise.
		Refrain:
		Sleep, pretty loved one, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.
	2.	Cares you know not, go to sleep, Mother here safe watch will keep.
		Refrain

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

Click to Enlarge: "Golden Slumbers," Pitch Number Format

solfeggio

letter names

Get on Board

Advanced syncopation on the second quarter of the second beat, the second half of the second beat, and the second half of the first beat.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual, cir. 1872
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABA, refrain/verse/refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ri | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation, | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ri ti |
| ta (ti) ti | ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do\La descending vi arpeggio (Em), La/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Do, Do\La, Do\So – contrasting the descending intervals Do\La and Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, fermata, Da Capo al Fine, Fine, two double barlines, syncopation
Key Words: USA history, sacred, Civil Rights song, Underground Railroad, African American history, gospel train, whistle, curve, loosened, steam engine, steam brakes, nerve, fare, cheap, rich, poor, second class, aboard, difference; abbreviations; comin’ (coming), blowin’ (blowing), rumblin’ (rumbling)strainin’ (straining), ev’ry (every); contractions: there’s (there is), train’s (train is), she’s (she is)

**“Get on Board”**

		Refrain:
		Get on board, little children, Get on board, little children, Get on board, little children, There’s room for many a more.
	1.	The gospel train’s a-comin’, I see it close at hand I hear the whistle blowin’ And rumblin’ through the land.
		Refrain
	2.	I hear that train a-comin’; She’s comin’ round the curve. She’s loosened all her steam and breaks And strainin’ ev’ry nerve.
		Refrain
	3.	The fare is cheap and all can go; The rich and poor are there. No second class aboard this train; No difference in the fare.
		Refrain

Additional Formats (click to enlarge)

music

beats

rhythm

pitch numbers

solfeggio

letter names

4th Grade