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Thanks For Food #2

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
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"Thanks for Food #2" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing dotted half and dotted quarter, while expanding the vocal range.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
  • Key: E Flat Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AABC
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta/ ti | ta ti ti ta/a |
    | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta ta ta |
    | ta/a/a (ta) |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi/Do, La\Re, So\Do, Do/Fa
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tempo: moderato/moderately (86-97 BPM)
  • Key Words: sacred, God, Thee, Thanksgiving, prayer, blessing, giving thanks, food, bread, strength, joy, employ


“Thanks For Food #2” 

Thanks to Thee, O God we give
For the food by which we live.
May we eat our bread with joy,
And our strength for Thee employ.
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Thanks For Food

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
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"Thanks for Food" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing dynamic symbols for crescendo and decrescendo.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABAb
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta ti ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Re, Mi\Do, Re\La, So/Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tempo: reverently/solemn respect; dynamics: crescendo (become gradually louder), decrescendo (become gradually softer)
  • Key Words: sacred, God, Giver, thankful, Thanksgiving, hungry, beasts, birds, without, thought, whence, food, gift, prayer, blessing


“Thanks For Food” 

The hungry beasts and birds may eat
Without a thought of thanks for food,
But we who know whence came the gift
Thanks God the Giver good.
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Ten in the Bed

"Ten in the Bed" Lyrics, Text Format

Practicing the tonic arpeggio and the perfect fourth So/Do\So,
while counting backwards from ten to one.

 

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA -Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABa
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ta |
    | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta (ta) ta | ta ta (ta) ti ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Do Mi So
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, So\Mi\Dodescending tonic arpeggio
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, quarter beat; rests: quarter; percussion quarter note; pickup beat, repeat sign, feeling the downbeat of one as rhythm patterns change
  • Key Words: counting backwards from ten (10) to one
    (1), bed, roll, over, goodnight song, little
  • Recorder: intermediate: playing in F major, descending tonic arpeggio
  • Keyboard: intermediate: descending tonic arpeggio

 

“Ten in the Bed”
1. There were ten in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
2.
 There were nine in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
3.
 There were eight in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
4. There were seven in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
5. There were six in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
6. There were five in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
7. There were four in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
8. There were three in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
9. There were two in a bed and the little one said,
“Roll over, roll over”
So they all rolled over, and one fell out.
10. There was one in a bed and the little one said,
“Good night!”
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Telephone Song

"Telephone Song," Lyrics, Text Format

Advanced syncopation, a blue note, developing the independent voice, and an excellent five finger keyboard exercise.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: USA – Singing Game
  • Key: D Major – centered around the dominate (So) 
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AaBbCC
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta/ ti ti/ ri | syncopation,
    | ti ta ta/ ta | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta/ ta |
    syncopation, | ta ta ta ta | ti ti ti ta/ ti/ ri |
    syncopation, | ta ta ti/ ri ta | syncopation,
    | ta ta ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ta ti ta/ ti/ ri | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: Mi So La Te – lowered/natural leading tone, blue note
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi/So (m3), So/Te(m3), Te\So (m3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, adding the submediant (La) and the lowered leading tone (Te) to the beginning Orff interval (So\Mi), imperfect ending (ending on the mediant instead of the tonic), note:there is no tonic, accidental: natural sign, singing alone and with others 
  • Key Words: USA history, singing game, camp song, telephone, home, yeah; contraction: isn’t (is not), I’m (I am), quotations
  • Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together


“Telephone Song” 
Solo
All
“Hey, Charlie! I think I hear my name!
Hey, Charlie! I think I hear it again!”
“You’re wanted on the telephone!”
“If it isn’t (any name) I’m not at home!”
With a rick-tick-tickety tick, Oh yeah!
With a rick-tick-tickety tick, Oh yeah!
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Teddy Bear

"Teddy Bear" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing sixteenth notes with the beginning Orff interval.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: United States of America Play Song
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABAC
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ri ti ti ri ti | ti ti ti ti |
    | ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; beginning Orff interval, pentatonic scale
  • Key Words: moving to music, parts of the body: toes, nose, head, teeth; dance, brush, bed, ground, touch, turn, bow, personal health, character education, sky, high, upstairs, prayers, sacred

“Teddy Bear” 
1.
 Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, dance on your toes,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch your nose.
2.
 Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, reach up high,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the sky.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, tap your head,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, go to bed.
3. Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, go upstairs.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say good night.
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Taps – NEW

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Mastering the pitches of the tonic triad and arpeggio.

 

Description

• Grade: Fourth (4)

• Origin: Words: Horace Lorenzo Trip – Music: Traditional

• Key: G Major

• Time: 4/4

• Form: Rhythm: AaB – Pitches: ABC

• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri | ta/a/a ti/ ri | ta/a ta ta | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | ta/a ta ta |

• Pitches: intermediate: So Do Mi So – tonic arpeggio

• Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), So/Mi/Do inverted tonic triad, Do/Mi/So tonic triad, Mi\So (M6), Mi\Do (M3), So\Mi\Do\So descending inverted tonic arpeggio

• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted eighth, quarter, sixteenth; rests: quarter; excellent practice of the tonic triad and arpeggio (root and inverted)

• Key Words: American history, military funerals, flag ceremonies, Flag Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, also known as: “Day is Done”, “Butterfly’s Lullaby”, and “Scott Tattoo” (from 1835-1860), official recognition by US Army in 1874, sacred

 


“Taps” 
1.
 Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
2.
 Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
3. Thanks and praise, for our days,
‘Neath the sun, ‘neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
4. Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.
5. While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game," Lyrics, Text Format


Introducing the sharped fourth (Fi, F#) and fifth (Si, G#)
in voice and recorder.

  • Grade: Fourth
  • Origin: USA – words: Jack Norworth – music: Albert Von Tilzer, 1908
  • Key: C Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: through composed
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta ta | ta/a/a |
  • Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa Fi So Si La Ti Do Re
  • Intervals: advanced: Do/Do8 ascending tonic octave skip (x3), Do8\La (m3), So\Mi/So (m3), So\Re (P4), La\Si/La (m2), La\Mi (P4), La\Fa\Reascending (ii, Dm) arpeggio, Re/La (P5), Re\Ti (m3), Mi/So (m3), So\Fi/So (m2)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter; tied notes, raised/sharp fourth (Fi), raised/sharp fifth (Si), ii arpeggio (Dm), octave skip
  • Key Words: USA sports: baseball, ball game, crowd, seeing a baseball game, rooting for the team, national pastime, peanuts, Cracker Jack®, care, never, back, home team, visiting team win. shame, three strikes you’re out, old ball game
  • Recorder: advanced: introducing F# and G#


“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” 

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out to the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame,
For it’s one, two, three strikes, your out
At the old ball game.

Chorus of the original Tin Pan Alley song.
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," Lyrics, Text Format

Advanced syncopation and an extended pentatonic scale,
produces a spiritual which is challenging and fun!

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Wallis Willis (Choctaw Freedman)
    circa. 1860’s – African American Spiritual
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ta | ta/ ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a (ta) ti ti |
    | ti ta ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta/ |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do/Mi\Do (M3), Do\La (m3), So/Do (P4), Do…/Mi../So8.. ascending tonic arpeggio with repeated pitches, So8\Mi/So8 (m3), So8\Do (P5)
  • Musical Elements: notes: doted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tonic arpeggios, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain, D.C. al Fine, Fine
  • Key Words: USA history; underground railroad, African American History, USA geography: Choctaw County, Hugo, Oklahoma; Wallis Willis (composer), Jubilee Singers, scared, spiritual, civil rights movement song; world geography: Jordan River (Middle East); chariot, band of angels, Heaven, soul, heavenly, bound, brightest, sins, Jesus, Bible stories
  • Recorder: advanced: playing in F Major (pentatonic scale), syncopation, tonic arpeggio

Partner song: “All Night, All Day!”

“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” 
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry my home.
1. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?
Coming for to carry me home,
A band of angels coming after me.
Coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
2.
 If you get there before I do,
Coming for to carry me home,
Tell all my friends I’m coming, too.
Coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
3. I’m sometimes up and sometimes down,
Coming for to carry me home,
But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
Coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
4. The brightest day that I can say,
Coming for to carry me home,
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
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Sweet Potatoes

"Sweet Potatoes" Lyrics, Text Format

Advanced syncopated rhythms, uncommon intervals; including the octave skip, while mastering the perfect fourth Do\So/Do.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: USA, Louisiana, Creole Folk Song
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABAC
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ta ta | (ta) ti ti ta ta |
    | ta ti ti ta ta | ta/a (ta/a) |
  • Pitches: advanced: So Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: advanced: So\Re, Re/Fa, Mi\Do, Do\So, So\So descending dominant octave skip, So/Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eight; syncopation, silent first beat, uncommon intervals to begin the tune, octave skip
  • Key Words: USA geography: Louisiana; Creole, dinner before bedtime, cook, mamma, pillow, sleep, sweet potatoes, supper, heads, pillow, smart, touch, bed


“Sweet Potatoes”
1. Soon as we all cook sweet potatoes,
sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes.
Soon as we all cook sweet potatoes,
Eat ’em while they’re hot.
2.
 Soon as supper’s gone, Mamma calls us,
Mamma calls us, Mamma calls us.
Soon as supper’s gone, Mamma calls us,
Get along to bed.
3.
 Soon’s we touch our heads to the pillow,
to the pillow, to the pillow.
Soon’s we touch our heads to the pillow,
Go to sleep right smart.
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Sweetly Sings the Donkey

"Sweetly Sings the Donkey" Lyrics, Text Format

Three part round with an ascending and
descending dominant octave skip.

 

Description

  • Grade: Kindergarten
  • Origin: Traditional English Round
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AAB
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
    | ti ti ti ti ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta (ti) ti |
    | ta (ti) ti ta (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi\Do, Do/Mi, So\Mi, So\Do, So/So\So, (dominant octave skip, ascending/descending)
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; three part round, singing in parts, harmony
  • Key Words: donkey, donkey sounds, feed, day, break, morning animal calls


“Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

 

Sweetly sings the donkey at the break of day;
If you do not feed him this is what he’ll say,
“Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Hee Haw!”

 

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