Breezes Are Blowing

Melody is centered around the supertonic (Re).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Native American – Luiseño Indian Rain Chant
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Re Fa So Do Re
Intervals: intermediate: So\Re, Re/So, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
Key Words: USA history, Native American history, USA geography, breezes, blowing, clouds, water. rain dance

**“Breezes Are Blowing”**
Breezes are blowing, Blowing clouds of water; Breezes are blowing, Blowing clouds of water; On my face, raining, Raining from the ocean; Breezes are blowing, Blowing clouds of water;

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Brave

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

Octave, ritardando, fermata, accent, a tempo and focusing on the tonic makes this short little tune very educational.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti (ti) ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Re/So, So\Mi\Do, Do/La, So\So
Musical Elements: notes: eighth; rests: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato; accent, poco rit., fermata, a tempo, descending octave skip
Key Words: brave, character education, hurrah, bumble, tumble, jumps, bumps, grumble

**“Brave”**
Hurrah for Bobby Bumble! He never minds a tumble, But up he jumps And rubs his bumps And doesn’t even grumble!

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Bow, Wow, Wow!

Introducing and reinforcing the tonic triad.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; reinforces tonic triad
Key Words: Old English: art (are), thou (you), dog sounds, lost and found

Partner song: “Hot Cross Buns”

“Bow, Wow, Wow!”

Bow, wow, wow!
Who’s dog art thou?
Little Tommy Tucker’s dog,
Bow, wow, wow!

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Bow Down, O Belinda

Singing tonic and dominate arpeggios while dancing.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Re\Ti\So descending dominate arpeggio, So/Do, Do/So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
Key Words: square dance movements, children’s dance, bow, partner, middle, circle, skip, both hands, round

1.Bow down, O Belinda,
Bow down, O Belinda,
Bow down, O Belinda,
Won’t you be my partner?

2.

Into the middle, O Belinda,
Into the middle, O Belinda,
Into the middle, O Belinda,
Won’t you be my partner?

3.Skip in a circle, O Belinda,
Skip in a circle, O Belinda,
Skip in a circle, O Belinda,
Won’t you be my partner?

4.Both hands round, O Belinda,
Both hands round, O Belinda,
Both hands round, O Belinda,
Won’t you be my partner?

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Boll Weevil

Mastering the asending perfect fourth (P4) So/Do,
with a descending tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Texas Sharecropper Ballad
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – Verse/Refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ta |
| ti ti ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta ta | ta/a (ta) ta |
| ta ta (ta) ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ta ti ti ti ti ti ti | (ta) ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/a/a/a |
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, Do/Mi,
Mi\Do\So tonic arpeggio, So/Ti, So/Re,
Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eight; rests: quarter; melodic rhythm patterns, descending tonic arpeggio
Key Words: USA history, Texas, Mexico, sharecroppers, blues, cotton farming, merchant, insects, animal science, black bug, square (plant), family, farmer, mighty, lump, ice, cool, nice, Ford, machine, gasoline, cotton dress, meat, meal, field, bale of cotton, jail

“Boll Weevil”

1. Oh the boll weevil is a little black bug, come from Mexico they say;
Come all the way to Texas, Just a looking for a place to stay.

Refrain

2. The first time I seen the boll weevil, He was sitting on the square,
The next time I seen the boll weevil had all of his family there.

Refrain

3. The farmer took the boll weevil, and he put him in the hot sand;
The weevil said, “This is mighty hot, but I’ll stand it like a man.”

Refrain

4. The farmer took the boll weevil, and he put him on a lump of ice;
The weevil said to the farmer, “This is mighty cool and nice.”

Refrain

5. The boll weevil said to the farmer, “You can ride in that Ford machine.”
But when I get through with your cotton, can’t buy no gasoline.”

Refrain

6. The merchant got half the cotton, the boll weevil got the rest,
Didn’t leave the farmer’s wife but one old cotton dress.

Refrain

7. The farmer said to the merchant, “We’re in an awful fix,
The boll weevil ate all the cotton, up and left us only sticks,”

Refrain

8. The farmer said to the merchant, “I want some meat and meal,”
“Get away from here you son of a gun, you got weevils in your field.

Refrain

9. The farmer said to the merchant, “We ain’t made but one bale,
And before we give you that one, we’ll fight and go to jail.”

Refrain

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Bound for the Promised Land

Minor tonality, the sixth (La) is the tonal center in the major key, intervals of a perfect fourth (P4) and minor third (m3).

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: D minor (pitched in F Major)
Time: 2/2 – counted in 4/4
Form: Aa – verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta ti ti |
| ta/a/a ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/ ti ti ti ta | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: La Ti Do Re Mi La
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do (m3), Re\Ti (m3), Mi\Ti (P4), Mi/La\Mi (P4), Do\La (m3)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, syncopation, minor tonality where the sixth (La) of the major scale is the tonal center, vocal slurs
Key Words: USA history, westward expansion, religious revivals of the 1800’s; world geography: Jordan, Canaan, Jordan River; Lord, sacred, song of Heaven, stormy, banks, cast, wishful, possessions, promised, bound, generous fruit, immortal, brooks, milk, honey, vales, soul, prepare, never-ending, everlasting, pleasures, praises, cease; possessives: Jordan’s, Canaan’s

**“Bound for the Promised Land”**

		1.	On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand And cast a wishful eye, To Canaan’s fair and happy land Where my possessions lie.
			Refrain:
			I am bound for the promised land, Bound for the promised land; Oh, who will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land.
		2.	There, generous fruits which never fail On trees immortal grow, There rocks and hills and brooks and vales With milk and honey flow.
			Refrain
		3.	The Lord my soul will soon prepare For never-ending peace, Where everlasting pleasures roll And praises never cease.
			Refrain

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Bossy Cow

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
The Farm

Introducing intervals Fa\Re and Re\Ti.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten, First Grade
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
| ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Re\Ti
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tempo: allegretto; dynamics: mezzo forte, crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: bell sounds, milkman, cow, bossy, milk, strolling, lane, fresh

**“Bossy Cow”**

		1.	Ting! ting! tinkle ting! Tinkle ting again. Here comes Bossy Cow Strolling down the lane.

		2.	Good old Bossy Cow! What does Bossy bring? Fresh milk for us all, Tinkle, tinkle, ting!

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The Bold Snow-Man

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Fair Days and Stormy

Challenging intervals with all the pitches of the major scale.

Description

Grade: First Grade
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ti ti ta | ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: So\Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, La\Re, Re/Ti, Do\So, La\Re, Re/So, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; dynamics: mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, crescendo, decrescendo; tempo: con expressione (with expression)
Key Words: snowman, sturdy, grand, thro’ (through), frozen, winter, bold, melting, feeble, shrank, sank, limp, lank, ’tis (it is), wept
Recorder: challenging recorder selection once the Beginning Color Coded Recorder Songs are mastered

**“The Bold Snow-Man”**

		1.	There he stood, the snow-man. Oh! the sturdy snowman. Grand and white Thro’ the night, Frozen quite. “I am bold in the cold!” Thought the snowman.

		2.	Melting stood the snowman. Such a feeble snowman! Then he shrank Till he sank Limp and lank. “Bold I’m not when it’s hot!” Wept the snowman.

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Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea

Complete ascending tonic arpeggio, minor sixth (m6) Do\Mi,
and an augmented fourth (A4) Fa\Ti.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: England – Old Nursery Rhyme
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, So\Do, Ti/Fa, Fa/La, La\Re, Do/Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio, Do\Mi (m6), Re/Fa, Fa/Ti8 (augmented fourth A4), Fa\Ti, Ti/Re
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; ascending tonic arpeggio, ascending augmented fourth (Fa/Ti), descending minor sixth (Do\Mi)
Key Words: world geography: England;sea, buckles, knee, marry, bright, fair, yellow, evermore, love; contractions: he’ll (he will), he’s (he is)

**“Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea”**

	1.	Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee. He’ll come back an marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto.

	2.	Bobby Shafto’s bright and fair, Brushing out his yellow hair; He’s my love for evermore, Bonny Bobby Shafto!

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Diminution of a melody is the opposite of augmentation.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Texas Folk Song, US
Key: C Major
Time: 2/2 (counted in 4/4)
Form: ABab – (diminution of AB)
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re/Fa, Mi/Do, Do\La, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; vocal slur, diminution (melody is presented in shorter note values than were previously used)
Key Words: blue, bird, window, through, shoulder, tired

**“Bluebird, Bluebird”**
Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Bluebird, bluebird, through my window. Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired? Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired? Directions: All but one student form a circle holding hands with arms held high to make windows. All sing “Bluebird..” as the one student flies in and out of the windows. All sing “”Choose…” as the one student goes around the circle before choosing a partner. They run around the circle, returning to the own window. The selected student becomes the new “bluebird.”

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