Diminution of a melody is the opposite of augmentation.
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Texas Folk Song, US
- Key: C Major
- Time: 2/2 (counted in 4/4)
- Form: ABab – (diminution of AB)
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a ta (ta) | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
- Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi/So, Fa\Re, Re/Fa, Mi/Do, Do\La, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter; vocal slur, diminution (melody is presented in shorter note values than were previously used)
- Key Words: blue, bird, window, through, shoulder, tired
Bluebird, bluebird, through my window.
Bluebird, bluebird, through my window.
Bluebird, bluebird, through my window.
Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired?
Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder
Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder
Choose a little girl/boy and tap her/him on the shoulder
Oh, Johnny aren’t you tired?
Directions:
- All but one student form a circle holding hands with arms held high to make windows.
- All sing “Bluebird..” as the one student flies in and out of the windows.
- All sing “”Choose…” as the one student goes around the circle before choosing a partner.
- They run around the circle, returning to the own window.
- The selected student becomes the new “bluebird.”
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