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Fuzzy Wuzzy

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Adding the sixth (La) to the beginning Orff interval, So\Mi.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: England – Traditional
  • Key: D Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AAaB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta (ta) (ta) |
  • Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; simple rhythms, introducing the sixth (La)
  • Key Words: world geography: England; rhyming words: bear, hair, animals

“Fuzzy Wuzzy” 

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy.
Was he?

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Freres Jacues

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"Freres Jacues" Lyrics, Text Format

Traditional round/canon in 32 languages!

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Traditional French Melody
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
    | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, So\Mi, Do/So, Do\So, So/Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; 2,3,4 part round/canon, singing in parts
  • Key Words: singing in parts, singing a round, singing a canon, geography, world languages

Partner song: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”


“Freres Jacues”
 

French:

Freres Jacques, Freres Jacques,
Dormez vous? Dormez Vous?
Sonnez les matines Sonnez les matines,
Din dan don, Din dan don.


English:

Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping,
Brother John? Brother John?
Morning bells are ringing! Morning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong, Ding, dang, dong.

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The Friendly Beasts

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Excellent assessment of beginning level skills in second grade.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: England – Christmas Carol
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/a ti ti |
    | ta/a/a |
  • Pitches: beginners: Ti Do Re Mi FA So La
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do/Mi, Mi\Ti, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi, Re/Fa, Re\Ti
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; common ending, 2\7/1, Re\Ti/Do; note: each phrase begins and ends on a pitch of the tonic triad
  • Key Words: world geography: England, Bethlehem; Bible story, birth of Jesus, sacred, Brother, humbly, born, stable, rude, friendly, beasts, around, stood, donkey, shaggy, carried, safely, cow, manger, pillow, sheep, curly horn sheep, wool, Christmas morn, dove, rafters, cooed, mate, animal science

 

 


“The Friendly Beasts”
 

1.
Jesus our Brother kind and good,
Was humbly born in a stable rude,
And the friendly beasts around Him stood.
Jesus your Brother, kind and good.
2.

“I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown,
“I carried his mother up-hill and down,
I carried her safely to Bethlehem town.”
“I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown.

3.

“I,” said the cow, all white and red,
“I gave him my manger for a bed,
I gave him my hay to pillow his head.”
“I,” said the cow, all white and red.

4.

“I,” said the sheep with the curly horn,
“I gave him my wool for a blanket warm,
He wore my coat on Christmas morn.”
“I,” said the sheep with the curly horn.

5.

“I,” said the dove from the rafters high,
“I cooed him to sleep so he would not cry,
We cooed him to sleep, my mate and I.”
“I,” said the dove from the rafters high.

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French Cradle Song

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Introducing a dotted quarter in 6/8; ritardando and fermata,
with a new interval So\Re.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: French Folk Song (French Cradle Song)
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: AaBbAa
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ti ti ti ta ti |
    | ti ti ti ta/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, So\Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; ritardando, fermata
  • Key Words: lullaby, France, sleep, brother, mother, tenderly, evening, Pierrot (a stock comic character of old French pantomime usually having a whitened face and wearing loose white clothes)
  • Keyboard: intermediate: excellent five finger exercise for left/right and two hands at the same time.
  • Recorder: intermediate: wonderful exercise for mastering left hand pitches, following the color coded Beginning Recorder Songs.


“French Cradle Song”
 

Go to sleep, my dear little brother,
Go to sleep, my little Pierrot*;
Mother will watch, tenderly near,
Father will come when the evening is here,
Go to sleep, my dear little brother,
Go to sleep, my little Pierrot.


*Pierrot: a stock comic character of old French pantomime usually having a whitened face and wearing loose white clothes.

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Free at Last

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Syncopation on the second half of the first beat (and of 1)
with ascending and descending tonic arpeggios.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fourth
  • Origin: Spiritual
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AB – refrain/verse
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta/ ta/a | syncopation,
    | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta ta/a |
    | ta ta ti ti ti ti |
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/La, La\Mi, Do/So, Mi/La
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; repeat sign, refrain/verse, vocal slur
  • Key Words: USA civil rights, African American history, civil rights protest song, African American spiritual, sacred, freedom, God, almighty, crippled, lame, Jesus, yonder (a distance away), graveyard, knees, soul, rise and fly, mornings, bright, fair, King Jesus; contractions: I’m (I am); abbreviations: an’ (and), walkin’ (walking), pass’d (passed), goin’ (going), tho’t (thought), possessive: Jesus’

 

“Free at Last” 

Refrain:
Free at last, free at last,
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Free at last, free at last,
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
1. Some come crippled an’ some some lame,
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Some come walkin’ in my Jesus’ name,
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Refrain
2.
Way down yonder in the graveyard walk
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Me and my Jesus going to meet and talk
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Refrain
3. On my knees when the light pass’d by
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Tho’t my soul would rise and fly
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Refrain
4. Some of these mornings, bright and fair
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Goin’ meet King Jesus in the air
Thank God almighty I’m free at last.
Refrain
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Free America

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Beginners syncopation and intervals brings the focus on history
and vocabulary of the American Revolution.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – music: Traditional, words: Joseph Warren
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AABa
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta (ti) ti |
    | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ta (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: beginners: m3: Re/Fa, Re\Ti, Fa\Re; P4: So/Do\So; P5: So\Do, Do/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, expression: with spirit, dynamic: forte/loud, syncopation
  • Key Words: USA history, American Revolution, American Colonial Song, patriotic song, American Revolutionary Song; world geography: Europe: France; Spain; Athens, Greece; Rome, Italy; science, seat, mistress, glories, scarce, tomb, rights, stoop, lawless, sway, oppose, North America, freedom, hither, desert, smiled, paradise, pleasure, harvest, snatch, torn, tyrants, beneath, western, dominion, liberty, freemen, God bless, maiden climate, through, cast, domain, hosts, heroes cluster, scorn, blast, venal, sycophants, betray, assert, yourselves, brave, proud disdain, wretch, ensnare, vain, array, reigns, masters, laws, subject, isles, ocean, spread, tremble, obey, prince; contractions: we’re (we are) , we’d (we would); abbreviation: pow’r (power), o’er (over); possessive: earth’s , freedom’s

 


“Free America”
 
1.
That seat of science, Athens,
And earth’s proud mistress, Rome,
Where now are all their glories?
We scarce can find a tomb.
Then guard your rights, Americans,
Nor stoop to lawless sway,
Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose
For North America.
2.

We led fair Freedom hither,
And lo! the desert smiled,
A paradise of pleasure
Was opened to the world;
Your harvest, bold Americans,
No pow’r shall snatch away,
Huzza, huzza, huzza
For free America.

3.

Torn from a world of tyrants
Beneath this western sky
We formed a new dominion,
A land of liberty;
The world shall own we’re freemen here,
And such will ever be,
Huzza, huzza, huzza,
For love and liberty.

4.

God bless this maiden climate,
And through her vast domain
May hosts of heroes cluster
That scorn to wear a chain.
And blast the venal sycophants
Who dare our rights betray;
Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves
For brave America.

5. Lift up your hearts, my heroes,
And swear with proud disdain,
The wretch that would ensnare you
Shall spread his net in vain;
Should Europe empty all her force,
We’d meet them in array,
And shout huzza, huzza, huzza
For brave America.
6.

The land where freedom reigns shall still
Be masters of the main,
In giving laws and freedom
To subject France and Spain;
And all the isles o’er ocean spread
Shall tremble and obey,
The prince who rules by Freedom’s laws
In North America.

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The Fox

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Through composed with syncopation throughout as students sing a story about foxes raiding the farmer’s pen.

 

Description

  • Grade: Third
  • Origin: England – Folk Song
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: through composed
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ri | syncopation,
    | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation,
    | ti ri ti ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta | ta ti ti | ta/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi\Do, Do/So, Re/So, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re\Ti
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth, pickup beat, tied notes, syncopation
  • Key Words: world geography, England, animal science, fox hunting, prayed, afore (before), mile, farmer’s pen, animal pen, ducks, geese, therein, contraction: gonna (going to), grease chin, grabbed, contraction: didn’t (did not), quack, abbreviation: danglin’ (dangling), mind, gray, woman, jumped, window, pooped, abbreviation: cryin’ (crying), great, den, abbreviation: sayin’ (saying), mighty, strife, fork, knife, their, chewed

“The Fox” 
1. The fox went out on a chilly night,
He prayed for the moon for to give him light,
For he’d many a mile to go that night
Afore he reached town-o, town-o, town-o,
He’d many a mile to go that night
Afore he reached the town-o.
2.
He ran till he came to the farmers pen
The ducks and the geese were kept therein,
He said a couple of you are gonna grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o,
A couple of you are gonna grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o.
3.

He grabbed the great goose by the neck
He threw a duck across his back,
And he didn’t mind the quack, quack
And the legs all danglin’ down-o, down-o, down-o,
He didn’t mind the quack, quack
And the legs all danglin’ down-o.

4.

Well the old gray Woman jumped out of bed
Out of the window she popped her head,
Cryin’ John, John the great goose is gone
The Fox is on the town-o, town-o, town-o,
John, John the great goose is gone
And the Fox is on the town-o.

5.

He ran till he came to his nice warm den
And there were the little ones 8, 9, 10,
Sayin’ Daddy, Daddy better go back again
It must be a mighty fine town-o, town-o, town-o,
Daddy, Daddy go back again
For it must be a mighty fine town-o.

6. The Fox and his Wife, without any strife
They cut up the goose with a fork and a knife,
And they never had such a supper in their life
And the little ones chewed on the bones-o, bones-o, bones-o,
They never had such a supper in their life
And the little ones chewed on the bones.
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For Health and Strength

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Round, singing in parts, introducing the ascending
dominate octave skip, So/So.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: Traditional Round
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/So, ascending dominant octave skip
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter; pickup beat, singing in parts, octave, independent singing
  • Key Words : sacred, Lord, prayer round, blessing

 


“For Health and Strength”
 

For health and strength and daily food,
We praise thy name, O Lord.

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For Health and Strength

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Two part round in straight and dotted rhythms, syncopation,
and a dominate octave skip.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fourth
  • Origin: England – Old Round
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: Through Composed
  • Rhythm: beginners: version 1: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
    version 2 : | ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/So ascending dominate octave skip
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; two part round, straight rhythms and dotted rhythms, octave skip
  • Key Words: sacred, daily prayer, meal prayer, dinner prayer, food blessing, blessing the food, giving thanks, health, strength, praise, Thy, O Lord

 

 


“For Health and Strength”

 

For health and strength and daily food
We praise Thy name, O Lord.

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For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow

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Beginners pitches and intervals with intermediate syncopation.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fourth
  • Origin: USA – Traditional
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 6/8
  • Form: ABA
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta/a ti |
  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Fa\Re, Mi/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, repeat signs, fermata, D.C. al Fine, Fine
  • Key Words: song of congratulations, song of accomplishment, camp song, celebration, festive
    hip hoorah, jolly, fellow, nobody, deny, which, contraction: he’s (he is)


“For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”
 

For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny.

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