Fuzzy Wuzzy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"For He's Jolly Good Fellow," Lyrics, Text Format

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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