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Laredo

"Laredo," Lyrics, Text Format

7/8 time signature grouped into 4 and 3 eighths,
natural tonic (Di) and sharped supertonic (Ri).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Traditional Cowboy Song
  • Key: E Flat Major
  • Time: 7/8 (uncommon time signature, grouped into 3-4)
  • Form: staves, w/repeats: AABBaabbAB – w/o: ABabA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ta ta |
    | ta/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Di Re Ri Mi Fa So – raised/natural tonic (1, Di) and supertonic (2, Ri)
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Mi\Ri/Mi (m2), Mi\Do (M3), Re\Di/Re (m2), Do/Fa (P4), Fa\Re (m3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat (beginning each staff), multiple repeat signs (5), tied notes, 7/8 time signature (grouped into 4-3 eighths), sharp, natural, raised tonic and supertonic (Di, Ri)
  • Key Words: USA history; USA geography: Laredo, Texas, world geography: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; languages: English, Spanish; cowboy song, cowboy’s lament, cowboy’s farewell, sorely, secret heart, pain to part, chest of treasures, contain, great devotion, passion; contraction: I’m (I am)
  • Recorder: advanced: Eb, Ab, Bb, F#, natural sign

“Laredo” 
I leave now to go to Laredo my love, I come here to say farewell.
While I’m there I will sorely miss you, my love, how much I can never tell.
And this golden key, now take it, my love, and open my secret
heart:
How much I shall always want you, my love, and how great my pain to part.
And take now the chest of treasures, my love, and all that it may contain.
It hold all my great devotion, my love, my passion and sometimes pain.
I leave now to go to Laredo, my love, I come here to say farewell.
While I’m there, I will sorely miss you, my love, how much I can never tell.
Spanish
Ya me voy para el Laredo, mi bien, Te vengo a decir adios.
Da alla te mando decir, mi bien, como se mancuernan dos.
Toma esa llavita de oro, mi bien, abre mi pecho y veras:
Lo mucho que yo te quiero, mi bien, y el mal pago que me das.
Toma esa caji ta de oro, mi bien, mira lo que lleva dentro.
Lleva amores, lleva celos, mi bien, Y un poco de sentimiento.
Ya me voy para el Laredo, mi bien, Te vengo a decir adios.
Da alla te mando decir, mi bien, como se mancuernan dos.
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Land of the Silver Birch

"Land of the Silver Birch," Lyrics, Text Format

Counting beat divisions and rhythm in 2/2 (cut time),
minor tonality with tonic and submediant arpeggios.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Canada – Folk Song
  • Key: D minor (pitched in F Major)
  • Time: 2/2 – cut time (4/4 also shown)
  • Form: phrases: ABbCD – song: AB, verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: intermediate: 2/2: | ta ti ti | ti ti ta
    | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ta/a | ta ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi So La – also the pitches of the pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: intermediate: La/Mi (P5) Mi\La (P5), Mi/La (P4), So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, F) Mi\Do\La descending submediant arpeggio (vi, Dm), La/Do (m3), Do\La (m3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eighth; tied notes, syncopation, vocal slur, pentatonic scale pitches, minor tonality, verse/refrain
  • Key Words: world geography: Canada; Native North Americans, earth science, animal science, silver birch (tree), beaver, mighty moose, wanders, at will, lake, rocky shore, forest, lowlands, thee, hills, north, rocky ledge, wigwam, edge, silent, still; possessive: water’s
  • Recorder: intermediate: D minor, tonic (i, Dm) and mediate (III, F) descending arpeggios

“Land of the Silver Birch” 

1. Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver,
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will,
Blue lake and rocky shore, I will return once more.
Refrain
Boom de de boom boom,
Boom de de boom boom,
Boom de de boom boom, Boom.
2.
Down in the forest, deep in the lowlands,
My heart cries out for thee, hills of the north,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
3. High on a rocky ledge I’ll build my wigwam,
Close by the water’s edge, silent and still,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
4. Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver,
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will,
Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more.
Refrain
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La Cucaracha

"La Cucaracha" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing syncopation!

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Mexican Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: ABAC
  • Rhythm: intermediate: ti ti ti | ta ti ( 3 4 & | 1 2)
    | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta/a | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ta/a | ta/ |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\So, So/Ti, Ti/Re, Re/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, Latin rhythm
  • Key Words: Mexico, geography, cockroach, scampering, across, Latin rhythm


“La Cucaracha”
 

English version:

La Cucaracha,
La Cucaracha,
He’s a merry little bug.
La Cucaracha,
La Cucaracha,
Scampering across the floor.


Spanish:

La cucaracha,
La cucaracha,
Ya no puede caminar.
Porque no tiene,
Porque le falta,
Una pata para andar.


Translation:

The cockroach,
The cockroach,
Can’t walk anymore.
Because he’s lacking,
Because he doesn’t have,
A foot with which to walk.

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La Bamba

"La Bamba," Lyrics, Text Format

Intermediate syncopation, limited range, and uncommon arpeggios: I6(F6), vii (Ed -diminished).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Mexico – Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: through composed
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | (ti) ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation, | ti ti (ta) | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ti ti ri ti ti ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi\Do (M3), Re\Ti (m3), Ti/Re/Fa ascending arpeggio (vii, Ed – diminished), Do\La (m3), La/Re (P4), Mi\Do\La\So descending arpeggio (I6, F6), Ti\So (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter, eighth; repeat signs, first and second endings, syncopation, tonic arpeggio w/sixth, vii arpeggio (diminished)
  • Key Words: world geography: Veracruz, Mexico; popular song from the 1958, Ritchie Valens, Cinco de Mayo


“La Bamba”
 

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia y otra cosita
Y arriba y arriba
Y arriba arriba y arriba ire
Por ti sere, por ti sere.

Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba bamba,
Bamba.

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