Egg Hunt

An Easter egg hunt in 3/4 time.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: German Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABAC (2 measures each)
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti | ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Fa\Re, Re/La, Fa\Ti
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat
Key Words: Easter song, hunting eggs, hidden, perhaps, ground, yellow, red, blue, green, names of pitches within the song, conductor

**“Egg Hunt”**

		1.	I am looking for eggs that are hidden around. In the grass, by the bush, and perhaps in the ground.

		2.	There’s the yellow one, red one, and the blue on is found. Someone please find the green one so I can sit down.

		3.	There’s the so and the mi and I see the la’s found. Someone find the conductor, so I can sit down.

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Eency Weency Spider or Itsy Bitsy Spider

also known as:
“Itsy Bitsy Spider”

"Eency Weency Spider" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing 6/8 time with dotted quarter rests.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABA’A
Rhythm: intermediate: |ta ti ta ti | ta/ ta ti |
| ta/ (ta/) | ta/ ta/ |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, So\Mi, Do\So, So/Do,
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: 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: spider, water spout, science, fine hand motor movements

“Eency Weency Spider”
also known as:
*“Itsy Bitsy Spider”*
The Eency Weency Spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain, And the Eency Weency Spider went up the spout again.

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The Echo

Create an echo game of your own.

Description

Grade: First Grade
Origin: Traditional American, US
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | ta/ ti ta/a_|
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, La/Do, Do\La, Ti\So, So/Do, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; fermata; rhythm pattern of 1st staff repeated up a 4th on the second staff
Key Words: echo, hear, good-day, rain, calling, falling, stop, near, though

**“The Echo”**

		1.	Echo, I can hear you, hear you, hear you, Though I can’t get near you, near you, near you, Won’t you say good-day? Good-day, good-day!

		2.	Now the rain is falling, falling, falling, So I’ll stop my calling, calling, calling, Won’t you say good-day? Good-day, good-day!

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Echo Play

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Playtime

Developing the independent voice while practicing dynamic levels.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti (ti) ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re/La
Musical Elements: notes: half, eighth; rests: eighth; tempo: allegretto/moderately quick (98–109 BPM); dynamics: mezzo forte/medium loud, piano/soft, crescendo, independent singing
Key Words: echo, near, hear, children, merry, join, children’s singing song, echo song, voice identification
Keyboard: intermediate: extending a five finger exercise by changing hand positions for the third line, changing back for the fourth line

“Echo Play”


Question or Statement	Echo

Echo, echo, are you near?	N e a r.
Tell us now if you can hear.	H e a r.
Will you with us children stay?	S t a y.
Join with us in merry play!	P l a y.

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Early To Bed Early To Rise

Three part round with an extended range.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Traditional Round
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/a ta | ta ta ta | ta/a/a |
Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do – extended range
Intervals: beginners: So/Do8, Do8\So, Re/Fa, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; three part round, singing in three parts, syncopation
Key Words: USA history, American Revolutionary figures, American founding fathers, American colonies, Benjamin Franklin, “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” Benjamin Franklin quotes, healthy, wealthy, wise, character education

**“Early To Bed Early To Rise”**
Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, and wealthy, and wise. Wise, healthy and wealthy.

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Early One Morning

Arpeggios extend the vocal range and challenge pitch accuracy
before stepping down the major scale to rest.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AaBC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ta | ta/a |
Pitches: advanced: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, La\Fa, Fa\Re, Ti/Re, La\Fa\Re\Ti descending thirds, Re\So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/So/Do complete ascending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; arpeggios, stepping down the major scale, extending the vocal range
Key Words: England, earth science, changing seasons, morning, risen, gaily, south, blowing, growing, herald, Spring, autumn, afternoon, setting, pipe a song, farewell, cold

**“Early One Morning”**

	1.	Early one morning, before the sun had risen, I heard a bluebird in the fields gaily sing. “South winds are blowing, Green grass is growing, We come to herald the merry Spring.”

	2.	One autumn afternoon, just as the sun was setting, I heard a bluebird on a tree pipe a song, “Farewell! We’re going, Cold winds are blowing, But we’ll be back when the days grow long.”

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Dundai

Minor tonality: tonic/home is the sixth pitch of the major scale, La.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: Hebrew – Folk Song
Key: D minor – pitched in F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: staves: ABABCBCB – song: AABB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ta ta ta/ (ti) | ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: La\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; repeat signs, minor tonality, stepping down the staff So-La
Key Words: world geography, Hanukkah, Hebrew, Torah, seasonal song, dundai, Yisrael, Israel

**“Dundai”**
Erets Yisrael b’li Torah. Hi chguf b’li n’shama. Erets Yisrael b’li Torah. Hi chguf b’li n’shama. Dundai, dundai, dundai, dundai, dai. Dundai, dundai, dundai, dundai, dai. Dundai, dundai, dundai, dundai, dai. Dundai, dundai, dundai, dundai, dai. Translation: Israel without the Torah is like a body without a soul.

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The Ducklings

Stepping up and down the staff from Do to La.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: none
Musical Elements: quarter note, eighth notes, half note; introduces cross over fingering for playing scales, stepping up and down the staff
Key Words: rhyming words, ducks, swimming, heads, water, tails
Keyboard: advanced: introduces cross over fingering for scale patterns in right, left, and two hands together

**“The Ducklings”**
See the little ducklings Swimming here and there. Heads are in the water, Tails are in the air.

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Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Third staff is a variation of the first staff using more notes of lesser value.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: ABCD – pitches: ABaC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ti ti | ta/a ta/a |
| ti ti ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Do\Mi, So\Mi, Mi/So/Do tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, arpeggio
Key Words: nonsense song, ears, hang, wobble, to and fro, tie, knot, bow, toss, shoulder, Continental soldier; abbreviation: ’em (them)

**“Do Your Ears Hang Low?”**
Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie ’em in a knot? Can you tie ’em in a bow? Can you toss ’em over your shoulder like a Continental soldier? Do your ears hang low?

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Down the River

Singing and reading two part harmony (in 6ths and 3rds).

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – River Chantey
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AB – verse/chorus
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti |
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta/a ti | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/ (ta/) | ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: melody: Mi So La Ti Do Mi Fa So
lower harmony: So La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: melody: So/Mi8 (M6), Mi8\Do\La\So descending arpeggio (vi7, dm7), So\Mi/So (m3), So/Ti (M3); lower harmony: Mi\So (M6) Ti/Mi (P4)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: dotted quarter; two part harmony (in 6ths, and 3rds), 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, pickup beat, arpeggio (vi7, Dm7), tied notes, vocal slur, singing in parts, reading two parts
Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Ohio, Ohio River; river chantey, river work song, river channel, steady and strong, river current, sailing, wind, morning sun, sun ray, hoe-cake (pancake from corn meal, cooked on a hoe; garden tool), contraction: won’t (will not), Dinah’s (Dinah is)
Recorder: intermediate: playing and reading two part harmony (in 6ths and 3rds)

**“Down the River”**

		1.	The river is up and the channel is deep, The wind is steady and strong. Oh, won’t we have a jolly good time, As we go sailing along.
			Chorus:
			Down the river, Oh, down the river, Oh, down the River we go.Down the river, Oh, down the river, Oh, down the Ohio.
		2.	The water is bright, and flashing like gold, In the ray of the morning sun, And old Dinah’s away, up out of the cold, A getting the hoe-cake done.
			Chorus
		3.	The river is up, and the channel is deep, And the wind blows steady and strong; Oh, won’t we have a jolly good time, As we go sailing along.
			Chorus

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