Follow Me

A challenging round where entrances occur on the second beat and end on the first half of the first beat. Excellent for counting silent whole and half beats (rests).

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Traditional Round
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: advanced: | ta (ti) (ta ) | (ta ) ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta/a| ti (ti) ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: two intervals: one entrance: Re/So, and Do\So/Do – melody moves primarily by stepping up and down the staff
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth: rests: quarter (11), eighth (7); pickup beat, two part round, tied note
Key Words: lyrics explain singing a round, two part round, singing in parts, teaching part singing with rounds, come, along, sing, song, follow, easy, repeat, till, complete; contraction: tune’s (tune is), abbreviation: ev’ry (every)

**“Follow Me”**
Come along, Sing a song. Follow me: It is easy as you see. Every day, In this way, Just repeat Till the tune’s complete.

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Follow Me

Promote independent singing while practicing a steady beat!

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: France – Folk Melody
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: Aa
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Re\So, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, independent singing, discovering movements to the steady beat
Key Words : world geography: France; walking in an line, cooperation, singing alone, singing alone

**“Follow Me”**
Will you follow me, In a line, in a line? Will you follow me? We will go like this. I will follow you In a line, in a line. I will follow you, Now it’s (student’s name) turn.

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The Flower Girl

Four part round, dotted quarter note syncopation,
descending tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Old English Round
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABAb
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, So\Mi, Mi\Do, So\Mi\Do, descending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, eighth; four part round, singing in parts, hearing two parts, vocal blending, common ending; dancing quickly over the tonic before finding it again
Key Words : world geography: England; earth science, flowers: posies, roses, primroses, cowslips, lilies; spring

**“The Flower Girl”**
Who’ll buy my posies fresh, Lilies and roses, With cowslips and primroses, Ladies, who’ll buy?

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Five Fat Turkeys

Introducing the ascending interval So/Do and the descending tonic arpeggio So\Mi\Do\So.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: United States of America – Traditional
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ti ti ta | ta/a | ta ti ti |
|ta (ti) ti |
Pitches: beginners: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do, Do\So, So/Do, descending tonic arpeggio: So\Mi\Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; notes: quarter, eighth; tied notes
Key Words: Thanksgiving, holiday, cooking, chef, turkey, hiding, couldn’t (could not)

**“Five Fat Turkeys”**
Five fat turkeys are we, We slept all night in a tree. When the cook came around we couldn’t be found, So that’s why we’re here you see.

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Five Currant Buns

Extended range, descending dominant octave skip,
and a common ending.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABaC
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti (ti) ta | ti ti ta ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Ti/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, So\So descending dominant octave skip, common ending So La Ti Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter descending octave skip So\So
Key Words: world geography: England; counting backwards from five, rhyming words: shop, top, day, away, vocabulary: currant, baker, shop, fat sugar, boy, penny, bought

Currant – a small dried fruit made from a seedless grape originally grown in the eastern Mediterranean region, widely used on cooking.

“Five Currant Buns”


1.	FIVE currant buns in the baker’s shop, Round and fat with sugar on the top. A long came a boy with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.
2.	FOUR current buns in a baker’s shop Round and fat with sugar on the top. A long came a girl with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.
3.	THREE current buns in a baker’s shop Round and fat with sugar on the top. A long came a boy with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.
4.	TWO current buns in a baker’s shop Round and fat with sugar on the top. A long came a girl with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.
5.	ONE current bun in a baker’s shop Round and fat with sugar on the top. A long came a boy with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.

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Fishpole Song

Introducing the dotted half note while mastering the pitches of the tonic triad.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Southern, US Singing Game
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta/a/a |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Mi So
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do\La, So/Do, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter
Key Words: singing game, fishing pole, going fishing, fish-hook, fish-line, fish bait, cricket, outdoor life, country life

1.

Who’s got a fishpole? We do!
Who’s got a fishpole? We do!
Who’s got a fishpole? We do!
Fishpole needs a line.

2.Who’s goat a Fish-line? We do!
Who’s goat a Fish-line? We do!
Who’s goat a Fish-line? We do!
Fish-line needs a hook.

3.Who’s got a fish-hook? We do!
Who’s got a fish-hook? We do!
Who’s got a fish-hook? We do!
Fish-hook needs some bait.

4.

Who’s got a cricket? We do!
Who’s got a cricket? We do!
Who’s got a cricket? We do!
Cricket catch a fish!

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The First Noel

As well as beginning the song, each phrase ends on the mediant, only one interval (P4), and an ending which is imperfect.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: England – Traditional Carol
Key: D Major
Time: 3/4
Form: staves: ABABCB – phrases: AAa – song: AB, verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ti ti | syncopation, | ta ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: beginners: P4: Do\So, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, verse/refrain, vocal slurs, syncopation; melody primarily steps up and down the major scale, with each phrase ending on the mediant, imperfect ending: final note is not the tonic
Key Words: world geography: England, Bethlehem; Christmas carol, sacred, Bible stories, birth of Jesus, Noel (Christmas), angel, certain, shepherds, night so deep, star in the east, beyond, earth, continued, wise men, country, nigh (near), northwest; abbreviation: o’er (over)

**“The First Noel”**

	1.	The first Noel, the angel did say, Was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay; In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
		Refrain:
		Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel.
	2.	They looked up and saw a star, Shinning in the east, beyond them far; And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night.
		Refrain
	3.	And by the light of that same star, Three wise men came from country far; To seek for a king was their in tent, And to follow the star wherever it went.
		Refrain
	4.	This star drew nigh to the northwest, O’er Bethlehem it took its rest, And there, it did both stop and stay, Right over the place where Jesus lay.
		Refrain

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The First Bouquet

“Song of a Little Child’s Day”
In the Garden

Syncopation in 3/4 time, introducing the minor 6th (m6) Do8\Mi,
and two perfect fourths (P4): So\Re, So/Do8.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: USA – Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 3/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: advanced: So\Re (P4), Fa/La, So/Do8(P4), Do\Mi (m6), Re/Fa\Re, Mi\Do/Mi, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beats, repeat signs, first and second endings, Expressivo/Expressive
Key Words: earth science, growing plants, seeding the garden, tending the garden, growing flowers, gathering flowers, sowed, seeds, watered, pulled weeds, blossom, gay, mother, bouquet

**“The First Bouquet”**

	1.	He dug his garden, He sowed the seeds; He kept it watered And pulled the weeds.

	2.	And when blossomed With flowers gay, He gave his mother The first bouquet.

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Fed My Horse

Beginners syncopation in the pentatonic scale while distinguishing the ascending intervals Mi/So from Mi/La.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Southern Appalachian Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: staves: AaAaB – song AB verse/chorus
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; repeat sign, verse/chorus
Key Words: USA geography, Southern Appalachia, earth science: poplar (fast growing tree in southern USA); trough (a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink from), silver spoon, kicked, over the moon, dead and gone, jawbones, plowing

**“Fed My Horse”**

	1.	Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Fed my horse in a poplar trough, Then she caught the whooping cough.
		Chorus:
		Coy malindo Killko, killko: Coy malindo Killko me.
	2.	Fed my horse in a silver spoon, Fed my horse in a silver spoon, Fed my horse in a silver spoon, And then he kicked it over the moon.
		Chorus
	3.	My old horse is dead and gone, My old horse is dead and gone, My old horse is dead and gone, But he left his jawbones plowing the corn.
		Chorus

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Father We Thank Thee

Lowered/natural subdominant (Fe), major sixth (So/Mi),
tonic and submediant arpeggios.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Quaker Hymn, music: D. Bachellor – words: Rebecca J. Weston
Key: B Flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ta | ta ti ti ta/a |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Fe So La Ti Do Re Mi – lowered/natural subdominant (Fe)
Intervals: intermediate: So\Fe/So, So/Mi (M6), Mi\Do\La descending submediant arpeggio (vi, Gm), La/Do, Re\So, So/Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio (I, Bb)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; accidental: natural subdominant (Fe), tonic arpeggio, submediant arpeggio
Key Words: USA, sacred, hymn, Quakers, Lord, God, Father, Thee, night, pleasant, morning, rest, food, loving care, world, fair, should, loving

**“Father We Thank Thee”**

	1.	Father, we thank Thee for the night, And for the pleasant morning light. For rest and food and loving care, And all that makes the world so fair.

	2.	Help us to do the things we should, To be to others kind and good; In all we do in work and play, To grow more loving everyday.

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