Ring Around the Rosy

Syncopation in 6/8 meter while adding the submediant
(six, La) to the beginning Orff interval, So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, Children’s Playground Song*
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AaBC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ |
Pitches: beginners: Do Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/La, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth, dotted quarter; 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: world georaphy: England; playground game song, posies, ashes, fall, down, pocketful, mother, jump, up, upstairs, downstairs, pail water, sea, water, cows, meadow, buttercups, fishes, one, two, three

* While holding hands, children walk in a circle singing the song, until the last word (down) when they all fall to the floor. The last child to fall is out of the game and the game continues.

**“Ring Around the Rosy”**
Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, All fall down!

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Ride a Cock-Horse To Bandbury Cross

Introducing dotted quarter, subdominant,
and dominant arpeggios, with an extended range.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England, 18th Century Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta/ |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta (ti) |
Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi – extended range
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa/La/Do ascending subdominant arpeggio, So/Ti/Re ascending dominant arpeggio, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; counting eighth notes, divisions of a dotted quarter (3 eights)
Key Words: world geography: England, Bandbury Cross; fine, lady, upon, white, horse, rings, fingers, bells, toes, shall,music, wherever, goes

The nursery rhyme was first seen in print in 1784. A “Cock Horse” is an old carriage-driving term, referring to an extra harnessed horse employed to assist pulling a cart or carriage up a hill. The “Cock Horse” would be hitched up at the bottom of the hill and then unhitched at the top. It would then be ridden back down to the bottom of the hill to await its next customer. Banbury, England is situated at the bottom of a moderately steep hill and the town’s council made a “cock horse” available to assist access to the town.

**“Ride a Cock-Horse To Bandbury Cross”**
Ride a cock-horse to Bandbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse; Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, And she shall have music wherever she goes.

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Reuben’s Coming

Introducing the subdominant (4th, Fa), with a half note
and an ascending tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AaB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a_|_a ti ti | (_=tie)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi Fa So – introduces the 4th, Fa
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied note, introduces half note, introducing the subdominate (4th, Fa), tonic arpeggio
Key Words: parts of a locomotive engine; throttle, boiler, wheels, rail, whistle, trains, train tracks, miles, wreck, neck, hair, head, thousand (1000)
Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together

1.Reuben’s coming down the track,
And he’s got his throttle back,
And the tracks are a’ taking him from home.

2.

If the boiler don’t bust
‘Cause it’s eat up with rust,
I’ll soon be a long ways from home.

3.

If you don’t believe I’m gone,
Look at the train I’m on;
You can hear the whistle blow a thousand miles.

4.

I’m a-going down the track;
I ain’t never coming back,
And I’ll never get no letter from my home.

5.Well, the train run so fast
Till I knowed it couldn’t last,
For the wheels was a-burning up the rail.

6.Old Reuben had a wreck
And it broke old Reuben’s neck,
And it never hurt a hair on my head.

7.Now I’m walking up the track,
Hoping I’ll get back;
I’m a thousand miles away from home.

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Rain, Rain, Go Away

Adding the submediant (6, La) and the interval Mi/La
to the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
Key Words: world geography: England; rain, play, day, another, children, again, away, another, nursery rhyme
Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right. left. and two hands together

Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day.

Rain, rain, go away,
All the children want to play.

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Pease Porridge Hot

Clapping game introducing the half note.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England, Nursery Rhyme Game
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ti ti ta |
| ta ta ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re So La
Intervals: beginners: Do/So, So\Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter
Key Words: world geography: England, porridge, hot, cold, pot, nine, days, old, clapping song, Mother Goose

**“Pease Porridge Hot”**
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

	Game Instructions

	Rhyme	Movements

	Pease	clap both hands to thighs
	porridge	clap own hands together
	hot,	clap partner’s hands
	pease	clap both hands to thighs
	porridge	clap own hands together
	cold,	clap partner’s hands
	Pease	clap thighs
	porridge	clap own hands
	in the	clap right hands only
	pot	clap own hands
	nine	clap left hands only
	days	clap own hands
	old.	clap partner’s hands

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Pat-A-Cake

Introduces dotted quarter, beamed sixteenths,
a full tonic arpeggio, and uncommon intervals.

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Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: E flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta/ |
| ti ri ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So Do – extended range
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So, ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa\Ti, Ti/Re, Mi/So/Do8 ascending tonic arpeggio, Re/Fa, Do8\So\Mi\Do full descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Fa, Fa\Re\Ti descending leading tone arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, eighth, sixteenth; 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: world geography: England, children’s clapping rhyme, bake, baker, cake, prick, mark, oven, baby

“Pat-A-Cake”
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can; Pat it and prick it and mark it with B, Put it in the oven for baby and me.

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Page’s Train

Adding the interval Mi\Do (M3) to the beginning Orff interval
So\Mi (m3). Syncopated second verse is quite challenging!

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA, North Carolina – Folk Song
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABC
Rhythm: beginners: 1st verse: | ta ta ta/a |
| ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta ta/a | advanced: 2nd verse:
| ta ti ti ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La – expanding from the beginning Orff interval
Intervals: beginners: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; vocal slur, syncopation
Key Words: USA geography: North Carolina; train, run, fast, slow, mule, hoe, farming
Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together

**“Page’s Train”**
Page’s train, runs so fast, Can’t see nothing but the window glass. Page’s mule, goes so slow, Always another row to hoe.

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Over in the Meadow

Introducing the descending perfect fifth, So\Do,
and the ascending major sixth Do/La.
Vocabulary builder! Present and past tense participles.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA, South Appalachian – Folk Song
Key: E flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Do, Do/La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, running eighth notes, tied notes, vocal slur
Key Words: USA geography: Appalachia; counting song, counting from one to ten, animal science, meadow, sand, sun, toad, wink, grass, grew, red fox, daddy, counting from one to ten, nest, tree, robin, mother, sycamore tree, chipmunk, hive, queen bee, honey bee, hum, glad, dam, sticks, beaver, built, green, wet, bog, froggy, pollywogs, hop, hopped, sing, snag, ran, run, wink, winked, spin, spun, hop, hopped, owl, owlets, web, pine, spider, rabbit, bunnies; rhyming words for numbers: one/sun, two/grew, tree/three, four/sycamore, five/hive, six/sticks, eight/late, nine/pine, ten/den

**“Over in the Meadow”**

	1.	Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun, Lived an old mother toadie and her little toadie one. “Wink!” said the mother, “I wink,” said the one. And they winked and they blinked, in the sand in the sun.

	2.	Over in the meadow where the tall grass grew, Lived an old daddy red fox and his little foxes two. Run said the daddy, we run said the. So they ran and were glad where the tall grass grew.

	3.	Over in the meadow in a nest in a tree, Live an old mother robin and her little birdies three. Sing said the mother, we sing said the three, So they sang and were glad in the nest in the tree.

	4.	Over in the meadow in a tall sycamore, Lived an old daddy chipmunk and his little chipmunks four. Play said the daddy, we play said the four, So they played and were glad in the tall sycamore.

	5.	Over in the meadow in a new little hive, Lived an old mother queen bee and her honey bees five. Hum said the mother, we hum said the five, So they hummed and were glad in the new little hive.

	6.	Over in the meadow in a dam built of sticks, Live an old daddy beaver and his little beavers six. Build said the daddy, we build said the six, So they built and were glad in the dam build of sticks.

	7.	Over in the meadow in a green, wet bog, Lived an old mother froggy and her seven pollywogs. Hop said the mother, we hop said the wogs, So they hopped and were glad in the green, wet bog.

	8.	Over in the meadow as the day grew late, Lived an old daddy owl and his little owlets eight. Wink said the daddy, we wink said the eight, So they winked and were glad as the day grew late.

	9.	Over in the meadow in a web in a pine, Lived an old mother spider and her little spiders nine. Spin said the mother, we spin said the nine, So they spun and were glad in the web in the pine.

	10.	Over in the meadow in a warm little den, Lived an old daddy rabbit and his little bunnies ten. Hop said the daddy, we hop said the ten, So they hopped and were glad in the warm little den.

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One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Adding the sixth (La) to the beginning Orff interval
So\Mi with percussion notation.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So (beginning Orff interval)
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, percussion note heads, solo, repeat sign, two double barlines
Key Words: world geography: England; numbers 1 through 10, fish, caught, bit, finger, left/right
Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together

**“One, Two, Three, Four, Five”**
One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again. Why did you let it go? Because it bit my finger so. Which finger did it bite? This little finger on my right.

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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Moving up and down the C Major scale plus a fermata.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme – Scale Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABBCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ta ta/a | ta ta ta/a |
| ta ta ta ta |
Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do – all the pitches of the C Major scale
Intervals: none
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; fermata, moving up the scale, stepping down the scale using pitch numbers as lyrics
Key Words: world geography: England; counting forwards and backwards 1-8, straight, buckle, shoe, door, sticks, abbreviation of the number seven (s’ven); rhyming words for even numbers two thru eight: two/shoe, four/door, six/sticks, eight/straight
Keyboard: intermediate: upper grades: playing the C Major scale
Recorder: intermediate: upper grades: playing the C Major scale

**“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”**
One, two, buckle my shoe; Three, four, shut the door; Five, six, pick up sticks; Sev’n, eight, lay them straight, Eight, sev’n, six, five, four, three, two one.

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Kindergarten