The Little Shoemaker

Advanced rhythms and intervals will challenge your best readers!

Description

Grade: First
Origin: American, US Traditional
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AaBb
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ta ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ta |
| ta/a/a ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta/ ti ta ta |
| ta/a/a (ti) ti | ti ti ta ta/ ti | ti ti ta ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\So, So/Mi, So\So (descending dominate octave skip), So/Do, Do/La, La\Do, Do/So, So/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; descending dominate octave skip, uncommon intervals
Key Words: shoemaker, house, over the way, wee, sews, hammers, contractions: there’s (there is)

**“The Little Shoemaker”**
There’s a little wee man in a little wee house, Lives over the way you see, And sits at the window and sews all day. Making shoes for you and me. A-rap a-tap tap, A-rap a-tap tap, Hear the hammers tit-tat-tee. A-rap a-tap tap, A-rap a-tap tap, Making shoes for you and me.

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Little Sally Walker – NEW

"Little Sally Walker" Lyrics, Text Format

Advanced syncopated rhythms across the barline with an ascending tonic arpeggio in a pentatonic scale.

Description

Grade: Third (3)
Origin: African American Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABA
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ti ta ta/a/ | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti_|_ti (ta) ti ti ti ta ti ti | ti ta ti ti ti ti ti | ti ta ta/ (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So – Pentatonic Scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So8 ascending tonic arpeggio, So8\Do (P5), So/Do (P5), Mi\La (P5)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; tied notes with syncopation (measures 5-6), ascending tonic arpeggio, pentatonic scale
Key Words: • nursery rhyme, moving to music, circle game song, circle song, walking to a steady beat.

“Little Sally Walker”

Little Sally Walker
Sitting on a saucer,
Weeping and a-moaning
Over all she’s done.
Rise, Sally, rise,
Wipe your weeping eyes.
Put your hands on your hips,
And let your backbone slip.
Swing it to the east,
Swing it to the west,
Swing it to the very one
That you love the best.

Game:

Make a circle holding hands, except for “Sally”
who stands in the middle covering her eyes.
The circle spins around Sally singing.
Sally rubs her eyes pretending to cry.
Extending an arm Sally turns to the right/left.
At the end of the song the circle stops.
The player Sally points to takes Sally’s place.

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Little Red Caboose

Syncopated rhythms, tonic octave skip, and two tied
eighth notes are equal to one quarter note.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Traditional Children’s Song
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ri ta ti ta/a | syncopation, | ti ri ta ti ti ti ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ta ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re/Fa, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, percussion quarter; syncopation, octave skip, tied notes
Key Words: train, train cars, train parts, caboose, smokestack, back, track, bend, hanging, behind, train whistle sound; woo-woo-woo

**“Little Red Caboose”**

	1.	Little red caboose, little red caboose, Little red caboose behind the train, the train. Smokestack on it’s back, going down the track. Little red caboose behind the train. Woo-woo-woo!
	2.	Little red caboose, little red caboose, Little red caboose behind the train, the train. Coming round the bend, hanging on the end. Little red caboose behind the train. Woo-woo-woo!

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Little Miss Muffet

Syncopation in 6/8 time, feeling duple meter in 6/8 time,
introducing the raised tonic (Di), and a right hand keyboard exercise.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/_a ti | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Di Re Mi Fa So – raised tonic Di
Intervals: advanced: Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Re\Di/Re, Re/So (P4), So\Mi, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, eighth rest, counting eighth notes, running eighth notes, raised/sharped tonic Di, C#; 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: world geography: England; tuffet, curds, whey, spider, frightened
Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for right hand – index or middle finger crosses over thumb to play the seventh (Ti), playing C#

tuffet – piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat.
curds – soft, white substance formed when milk sours for making cheese.
whey – the watery part of milk that remains after the formation of curds.

**“Little Miss Muffet”**
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; There came down a spider, Who sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away.

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Little Jack Horner

Tied notes, a major seventh (Ti/La),
minor sixth (Fa\La), and syncopated rhythms in 6/8 time.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, 1725
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/_a (ti) ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – extended range
Intervals: advanced: 3 perfect fourths (P4): So/Do, La/Re, Ti/Mi; Ti/La (M7), Fa\La (m6)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tied notes, 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: world geography: England; Christmas, sacred, corner, eating, pie, thumb, plum, self-esteem, Christmas Pie, character education

**“Little Jack Horner”**
Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, “What a good boy am I!”

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The Little Gardener

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

Introducing poco ritardando and a tempo.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: Aa
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta/a (ta) ta |
| ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Mi, Mi/So, So\Do, Do/Mi, Mi\La, Do\So, Do/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tempo: andantino/slightly faster (78-83 BPM), poco ritardando, a tempo, first and second endings, repeat signs, dynamics: crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: growing plants, gardening, gardener, roots, weeds, might, cool, cloud, sky, quickly, pulled, sprinkled, plants, contractions: flow’r (flower), show’r (shower), brimmin’ (brimming)

**“The Little Gardener”**

		1.	“I wish I had room for my roots!” said the flow’r; “All about them so many weeds crowd! I wish oh I wish there might be a cool show’r, But the sky has not even a cloud.”

		2.	To work in his garden the child quickly ran, And he pulled ev’ry weed from the bed, He sprinkled the plants from his brimmin’ full can; Little flow’r did de know what you said?

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A Little Dancing Song

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Playtime

A short tune with advanced intervals.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti | ta ta | ta (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: advanced: So\Re, Fa\Re, Re/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do, Re\La, Ti\So, La/Do, Do\So, So/Re, Re/Fa, La\Fa, Mi/So, Do\La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; tempo: allegro giocoso/fast, quickly and bright, merrily/funny (109-132 BPM), poco ritardando, a tempo, dynamics: mezzo forte/medium loud, forte/loud, crescendo, decrescendo, horizontal accent: sing/play the note louder
Key Words: play songs, dancing, float, around, follow, music’s (possessive), sound, point, heel, toe, bow, low

**“A Little Dancing Song”**
Now in the dance we’ll float around, Follow the music’s merry sound. Point heal and toe, Bow very low, Dancing and dancing away we go.

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Little Bunny Foo Foo

Discovering variations in the form, syncopation, and
a descending tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional: variations on “Down at the Station” and “Alouette“
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: AAaB – pitches: ABab
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta ti ti |
| ti ri ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: So Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; tonic arpeggio (F – I)
Key Words: Nonsense song, hopping, bunny, animal science, scooping, field mice, goon, hare, rabbit, Easter, through; abbreviations: boppin’ (bopping), ’em (them); contractions: I’ll (I will)

**“Little Bunny Foo Foo”**

	1.	Little Bunny Foo Foo Hopping through the forest, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!(spoken) Down came the Good Fairy, and she said:“Little Bunny Foo Foo I don’t want to see you, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!”(spoken) “I’ll give you three chances, and if you don’t behave I’ll turn you into a goon!”

	2.	Little Bunny Foo Foo Hopping through the forest, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!(spoken) Down came the Good Fairy, and she said:“Little Bunny Foo Foo I don’t want to see you, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!”(spoken) “I’ll give you two more chances, and if you don’t behave I’ll turn you into a goon!”

	3.	Little Bunny Foo Foo Hopping through the forest, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!(spoken) Down came the Good Fairy, and she said:“Little Bunny Foo Foo I don’t want to see you, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!”(spoken) “I’ll give you one more chance, and if you don’t behave I’ll turn you into a goon!”

	4.	Little Bunny Foo Foo Hopping through the forest, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!(spoken) Down came the Good Fairy, and she said:“Little Bunny Foo Foo I don’t want to see you, Scooping up the field mice and Boppin’ ’em on the head!”(spoken) “I gave you three chances, and you didn’t behave. Now I’ll turn you into a goon! POOF!”

		The moral of the story is: HARE TODAY, GOON TOMORROW

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Little Boy Blue

Advanced syncopated rhythms, pitches, descending tonic and dominant minor seventh arpeggios will challenge your best readers.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England, 19th-century Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti (ti) ti | ta ti ti (ti) ti |
| ti/ ri ti ti/ ri ti | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti ti ti ri | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do\La, Do/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, La/Fa, Fa\Re\Ti\So descending dominant minor seventh arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; counting eighth notes, dotted eighth syncopation in 6/8 time, tonic and dominant arpeggios
Key Words: world geography: England; farming, village, boy, blue, horn, sheep, meadow, cow, corn, haystack

Little Boy Blue was a hayward in the Middle Ages. One of the responsibilities of the village hayward was to blow his horn to give warning that cattle were invading the crops.

**“Little Boy Blue”**
Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn, The sheep’s in the meadow, The cow’s in the corn; Where is that boy Who looks after the sheep? Under the haystack Fast asleep.

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Little Bo Peep

Introducing the dotted quarter note, syncopation in 6/8, using all the pitches of the major scale, counting eighth notes, and uncommon intervals, a challenge for intermediate readers.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Old Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta/ | ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta/ ta (ti) |
| ta ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, all the pitches of the major scale
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do8\Mi, Mi/Ti, So\Re, So\Mi, Mi/La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; uncommon intervals, vocal slur, 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: world geography: England; sheep. nursery rhymes, wagging, dreamt, bleating, fleeting, crook, determined, they’d, stray, meadow, espied, hillocks, shepherdess, sheep farming, bleeding heart, joke; contraction: they’ll (they will); abbreviation: ’em (them)

**“Little Bo Peep”**

		1.	Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And doesn’t know where to find them; Leave them alone, And they’ll come home, Wagging their tails behind them.

		2.	Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they all were fleeting.

		3.	Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they’d left all their tails behind ’em!

		4.	It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray Into a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails, side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.

		5.	She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks she raced; And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, That each tail should be properly placed.

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