The Ash Grove

Melodic patterns step up and down the staff forming two, eight measure phrases, a sharped fourth, Fi, insures each phrase ends from the half step below.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: United Kingdom, Wales – Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta |
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta/a ta |
Pitches: advanced: Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa Fi So La – raised/sharped fourth (Fi)
Intervals: advanced: So/Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do, Re/Fa, Ti\So, La\Fa/La, So/Do, So\Mi, Fa\Re, Ti/So, So\Fi/So, So\So descending octave skip – experience the same intervals ending each phrase: Do\Ti/Do and Do\Fi/So
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, vocal slur, repeating melodic patterns
Key Words: world geography, United Kingdom, Wales, Welsh, earth science, Ash Tree, tree grove, valley, streamlets, meander, twilight, pensively, rove, amid, shades, blackbird, cheerfully, warbler, enchants, sorrow, sadness, enchanting, beauty, graceful, language, whenever, through, branches, host, gazing, childhood, memory, whispers, laden, rustle, loses, lightness, future, spirit, brood, gather,
brightness, nook, downward, yonder (down in the valley); contraction: ’tis (it is); abbreviations: o’er (over), ev’ry (every)

**“The Ash Grove”**

		1.	Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander, When twilight is fading I pensively rove. Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander Amid the dark shades of the lonely ash grove. ‘Tis there where the blackbird is cheerfully singing, Each warbler enchants with his note from the tree. Ah, then little think I of sorrow or sadness; The ash grove enchanting spells beauty for me.
		2.	The ash grove how graceful, how plainly ’tis speaking The wind through it playing has language for me. Whenever the light through its branches is breaking, A host of kind faces is gazing on me. The friends from my childhood again are before me Each step brings a memory as freely I roam. With soft whispers laden the leaves rustle o’er me The ash grove, the ash grove alone is my home.
		3.	My lips smile no more, my heart loses its lightness; No dream of the future my spirit can cheer. I only can brood on the past and its brightness The dear ones I long for again gather here. From ev’ry dark nook they press forward to meet me; I lift up my eyes to the broad leafy dome, And others are there, looking downward to greet me The ash grove, the ash grove, again is my home.

		Tune originates from the hymn “The Master Hath Come” by Sarah Doudney (1871)

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Andale Juana

Melody begins centered around the mediant (Mi), utilizes three repeated perfect fourths (P4) and two minor thirds (m3), before finding the tonic (Do) after a major third (M3).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Mexico Folk Song
Key: Phrygian mode – C Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AaBb
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta ta/a | ta ta ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi (m3), Mi/La (P4), Re/So (P4), Do\La/Do (m3), Do\So/Do (P4), So/Ti (M3)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tied notes, three perfect fourths (P4) and two minor thirds (m3) give the feeling of a minor tonality until the last interval a major 3rd (M3), mediant (third pitch of the scale), maintaining the the down beat
Key Words: world geography: Mexico, Mexico customs, piñata, birthday song, celebration song, Cinco de Mayo, fiesta song, Mexican party song, delay, basket, chestnuts, peanuts, silver, gold, break the piñata, papier-mâché, filled with candy

**“Andale Juana”**
Spanish
“Andale Juana no te dilates Con la canasta de los cacahuates, No quiero oro ni quiero plata Yo lo que quiero es romper la piñata”La la la la la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la.
English
Hurry up Juana, do not delay now; Bring out the basket of chestnuts and peanuts! I don’t want silver, I don’t want gold; All that I want is to break the piñata. La la la la la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la.

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America the Beautiful

Tune begins centered around the second pitch of the scale Re; note the accidental leading tone B natural (Di), with beginners syncopation and advanced intervals.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: words: Katherine Lee Bates – music: Samuel A Ward
Key: B flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation,
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Di Re Mi – natural tonic (Di)
Intervals: advanced: So\Mi/So, So\Re, Ti\So, Re/Re ascending octave skip, Re\Di, Mi\La, La/Re8, Re\So, So/Mi8, Re\Ti, So/Do, Do\La/Do, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, natural sign, raised Do (natural Di), syncopation, octave skip
Key Words: USA patriotic song, July 4th, Independence Day, sacred, beautiful, spacious, amber, majesties, fruited plain, shed, grace, thee, crown, brotherhood, pilgrim, whose, stern, impassioned, stress, thoroughfare, freedom, wilderness, mend, flaw, confirm, soul, self-control, liberty, law, heroes, prove, liberating, strife, mercy, success, nobleness, divine, patriot, dream, beyond, thine, alabaster, gleam, undimmed, human, crown; abbreviation: ev’ry (every)

**“America the Beautiful”**

	1.	Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America, America, God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea!
	2.	Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern, impassioned stress, A thoroughfare for freedom beat, Across the wilderness! America, America, God mend thine ev’ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law.
	3.	Oh, beautiful for heroes prove, Of liberating strife, Who more then self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America, America, May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And ev’ry gain divine.
	4.	Oh, beautiful for patriot dream, That sees beyond the years, Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears. America, America, God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea!

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Amen

Three syncopated rhythms, a solo, and improvising
new lyrics make this a hit during Christmas.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: United States, African American Spiritual
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/a (ta/a) | ta/a/a ta | ta (ta) (ti) ta ti | syncopation, | ta ta (ta/a) | ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta (ta) ta | ta ta ti ti ti (ti) |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do\La, So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi/So8, La8\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; D.C. al Fine, Fine, solo, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tied notes, vocal slur
Key Words: sacred, Christmas, Jesus, story of Jesus birth, Mary, Joseph, manger, stable

**“Amen”**
Amen, Amen Amen, Amen, Amen. See the baby, Lying in a manger, On Christmas morning, Amen, Amen, Amen.

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All Through the Night

Experiencing a phrase ending on the seventh (7th).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: United Kingdom, British Isles – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a/a (ta) |
| ta ta ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Ti\So, Do/Fa, Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, syncopation
Key Words: world geography, United Kingdom, British Isles, lullaby, sacred, evening prayer, peace, through, guardian, angels, God, drowsy, hours, creeping, hill and vale, slumber, steeping, vigil, keeping vigil, weary, spirit, gently, stealing, vision, delight, revealing, breathes, pure, holy feeling

**“All Through the Night”**

		1.	Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee, All thought the night. Guardian angels God will send thee, All through the night. Soft the drowsy hours are creeping, Hill and vale in slumber steeping, I, my loving vigil keeping, All though the night.
		2.	While the moon her watch is keeping, All though the night. While the weary world is sleeping, All though the night. O’er thy spirit gently stealing, Vision of delight revealing, Breathes a pure and holy feeling, All though the night.

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Aiken Drum

What rhythmic change is made in the chorus?
How often does it occur?

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: United Kingdom, Scotland – Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: Aa – verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ri |
| ta (ti) ti ri | ta ti ti | ta ti ti ri |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Fa\Re, Re\So, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, vocal slur
Key Words: world geography, Scotland, United Kingdom, Jacobite Rising, Battle of Sheriffmuir, nonsense song, moon, ladie (ladle/spoon), cream cheese, hat, coat, roast beef, button, penny leaves, breeches (pants), haggis bags (bags made from sheep organs)

**“Aiken Drum”**

		1.	There was a man lived in the moon, lived in the moon, lived in the moon, There was a man lived in the moon, And his name was Aiken Drum.
			Chorus
			And he played upon a ladie, a ladie, a ladie, And he played upon a ladie, And his name was Aiken Drum.
		2.	And his hat was made of good cream cheese, good cream cheese, good cream cheese, And his hat was made of good cream cheese, And his name was Aiken Drum.
			Chorus
		3.	And his coat was made of good roast beef, good roast beef, good roast beef, And his coat was made of good roast beef, And his name was Aiken Drum.
			Chorus
		4.	And his buttons made of penny loaves, of penny loaves, of penny loaves, And his buttons made of penny loaves, And his name was Aiken Drum.
			Chorus
		5.	And his breeches made of haggis bags, of haggis bags, of haggis bags, And his breeches made of haggis bags, And his name was Aiken Drum.

		The rhyme dates from 1715 during the Jacobite Rising. Aiken Drum is a kindhearted mythical creature (brownie/fairy) who was sometimes mischievous.

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Above the Plain

Contrasting straight and dotted syncopation, expanding the vocal range while singing a four part round in two parts, and practicing the intervals of the tonic chord/arpeggio in voice and on xylophones.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Czech Republic – Folk Song
Key: E flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: AABB – phrases/song: AB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta/ ti | dotted syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | straight syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So Do
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Mi\Do, So8/Do8\So8, Mi/So\Mi, Do\So, Mi/Do8, Mi/So8, So8\Mi- all intervals of the tonic chord/arpeggio, E flat Major (Bb-Eb-G-Bb-Eb), or I (one)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, four part round in two parts, singing in parts, reading two parts, verse/refrain, recognizing the intervals associated with the I chord
Key Words: world geography: Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia – now the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), plain, gold, green, young, plainly, swiftly, flowing, river, lifted, head, spires, instead, pleasure, grand, castle, deep, shade
Xylophones: intermediate: Letter Names Format is presented in G Major; practicing tonic chord intervals

The orginal melody, taught in the 4th grade: “Ifca’s Castle” is divided between the two parts.

**“Above the Plain”**

		1.	Above the plain of gold and green, A young boy’s head is plainly seen;
			Refrain
			A huya, huya, huyaya, Swiftly flowing river; A huya, huya, huyaya, Swiftly flowing river.
		2.	But no, ’tis not his lifted head, ‘Tis Ifca’s castle spires instead.
			Refrain
		3.	For our pleasure it was made This grand old castle deep in shade.
			Refrain

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nal Forma

4th Grade