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Who’s That Tapping at the Window?

"What Are Little Boys - Girls Made Of?" Lyrics, Text Format


Developing an independent voice.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA – Singing Game
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AaAa
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
    | ta (ta) |
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So
  • Intervals: beginners: Do/So, So\Re, Mi\Do, reinforces the ascending perfect fifth (P5) Do/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; call/response, independent singing
  • Key Words: who, tapping, window, door, singing alone
  • Keyboard: beginner: four finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

 

 

“Who’s That Tapping at the Window?”

Call:Who’s that tapping at the window?
Who’s that knocking at the door?
Response:I am tapping at the window.
I am knocking at the door.

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Who is Singing Low?

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Discovering the independent voice
with the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: Traditional
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: Mi So
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, – beginning Orff interval
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; independent singing, call/response
  • Key Words: singing, low, know, independent voice, singing alone, beginning tune
  • Keyboard: beginners: two finger exercise for right (5-3), left (1-3), and two hands together


“Who is Singing Low?”

Call:Who is singing low?Response:It is me, don’t you know?

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Who Has the Penny?

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Promoting the independent voice.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: Author Unknown
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AABB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti | ta ta | ta (ta) |
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Mi So
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi\Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; reinforces pitches of the tonic triad, call/response
  • Key Words: penny, pin
  • Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right (5-3-1), left (1-3-5), and two hands together

 

 


“Who Has the Penny?”

Call:Who has the penny?

Response:

I have the penny.

Call:

Who has the pin?

Response:I have the pin.

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Where is Thumbkin?

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Developing fine motor movements while singing.
Same tune as “Frere Jacques,” and “Are You Sleeping.”

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England/France – Traditional
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ti ti ta/a |
    | ta ta ta ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, So\Mi, Do/So, Do\So, So/Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; repeated melodic rhythm patterns
  • Key Words: world geography: England, France; thumb, ring, tall, pinky, parts of the hand, fingers, ma’am (lady)

“Where is Thumbkin?” 

1. Where is thumbkin?
Where is thumbkin?
Here I am, here I am!
How are you today sir/ma’am?
Very well, I thank you!
Run away, run away!
2.
Where is pointer?
Where is pointer?
Here I am, here I am!
How are you today sir/ma’am?
Very well, I thank you!
Run away, run away!
3.
Where is tall man/girl?
Where is tall man/girl?
Here I am, here I am!
How are you today sir/ma’am?
Very well, I thank you!
Run away, run away!
4. Where is ring man/girl?
Where is ring man/girl?
Here I am, here I am!
How are you today sir/ma’am?
Very well, I thank you!
Run away, run away!
5. Where is pinky?
Where is pinky?
Here I am, here I am!
How are you today sir/ma’am?
Very well, I thank you!
Run away, run away!
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What Are Little Boys/Girls Made Of?

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Descending tonic arpeggio and counting beats in 6/8 time
with dotted quarter note syncopation, minor seventh (So/Fa).

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England, 19th-century Nursery Rhyme*
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: AABC
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta/ |
    | ta ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
  • Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Fa (m7), Ti\So, Ti/Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; vocal slur; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
  • Key Words: boys, girls, frogs, snails, puppy-dog’s tails, sugar, spice, nice

* From a larger work, “What Folks Are Made Of” or “What All the World is Made Of.”

 

“What Are Little Boys/Girls Made Of?”

What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails, and puppy-dog’s tails,
That’s what little boys are made of.

What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice, and everything nice,
That’s what little girls are made of.

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Wake Me, Shake Me

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Introducing syncopation.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA – Folk Song
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta (ta/a) | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta (ta) (ta) ti ti | ta/a (ta/a) |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi
  • Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, So/Do, Do\La
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: half, quarter, syncopation
  • Key Words: sacred, golden gate, wake, shake, sleep, bright, early, morning, swing; contraction/slang words: gotta (got to), gonna, (going to)


“Wake Me, Shake Me”

 

Wake me! Shake me!
Don’t let me sleep too late!
Gotta get up bright and early in the morning.
Gonna swing on the Golden Gate.

 

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Two, Four, Six, Eight

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Excellent beginning chant before reading rhythms on the staff!

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
  • Key: D Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABCA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | – percussion notes
  • Pitches: none
  • Intervals: none
  • Musical Elements: rhythmic beats in quarters and eights, chanting rhythms, percussion quarter notes
  • Key Words: world geography: England; counting by two’s, garden, gate, two, four, six, eight, wait, contraction: don’t (do not)


“Two, Four, Six, Eight”

 

Two, four, six eight,
Meet me at the garden gate.
If I’m late, don’t wait.
Two, four, six, eight.

 

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

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Introducing the ascending perfect fifth, Do/So (P5).
Same melody as “Alphabet Song” and “Baa, Baa, B lack Sheep.”

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten 
  • Origin: England/France – Lullaby*
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCCAB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: beginners: Do/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; ending a phrase on the second (Re), stepping down from the sixth to the tonic (La-Do)
  • Key Words: world geography: England, France; lullaby, stars, sky, twinkle, wonder, blazing, sun, shines, traveler, tiny, wonder, spark, dark, blue, curtains, peep, shut, eye, sun

*First published in 1806 as the poem “The Star.” The tune is from a french melody “Ah! vous diral-je, Maman,” later arranged by W. A. Mozart in a set of variations for piano; K 265/300e.

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

1.Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

2.

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

3.

Then the traveler in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

4.In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

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Twilight Song

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Practicing the descending perfect fifth, So\Do (P5).

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: Unknown
  • Key: C Major
  • Time:2/4
  • Form: ABBA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Do, La/Do8\La, La\Fa
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
  • Key Words: lullaby, night, falling, flowers, petals, eyelids, soft


“Twilight Song”

 

Soft the night is falling,
Flow’rs have closed their petals bright.
Close your eyelids now, goodnight,
Soft the night is falling.

 

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Touch Your Shoulders

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EXCELLENT beginning song which adds movement to the beginning Orff interval (So\Mi/So) and easily transfers fine motor skills to the keyboard or Orff center/station.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA – Children’s Singing Game
  • Key: E Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AAAA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: Mi So
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, beginning Orff interval
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
  • Key Words: parts of the body, hands, shoulders, knees, nose, hair, toes, exercise with music
  • Keyboard: beginners: two finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

 

“Touch Your Shoulders” 

Hands on shoulders, hands on knees.
Hands behind you if you please;
Touch your shoulders, now your nose,
Now your hair and now your toes.

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